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- A 42-year-old Staten Island man was grocery shopping when he picked up a Powerball ticket that won him a $245.6 million jackpot
- Nandlall Mangal bought the winning ticket for the Aug. 11 Powerball drawing at a Stop & Shop on Hylan Boulevard
- “I was grocery shopping and knew the Powerball jackpot was big,” he said. “I decided that was a good time to buy my tickets"
A 42-year-old Staten Island man was grocery shopping when he picked up a Powerball ticket that won him a $245.6 million jackpot.
Nandlall Mangal, who's employed as a construction worker, bought the winning ticket for the Aug. 11 Powerball drawing at a Stop & Shop on Hylan Boulevard, he said Thursday.
Mangal buys tickets when the jackpot exceeds $100 million, so he purchased a $6 Quick Pick ticket at the store that day, he said.
“I was grocery shopping and knew the Powerball jackpot was big,” he said. “I decided that was a good time to buy my tickets.”
After Mangal bought the ticket, he went out of town and left it on his kitchen table for about a week and a half before returning, he said.
"I realized no one... had come forward, so I said, 'Let me check it — you never know,'" he said.
Mangal checked the Powerball website and was shocked to discover he’d won, he said.
"I was freaking out, I guess, excited, nervous," he said. "I don't think it hit yet. It will soon though."
Mangal has decided to claim the money “in the form of a trust” as “a one-time lump sum payment totaling $99,321,975 after required withholdings,” the New York Lottery said in a release.
Now that Mangal has won, he plans to “relax and see where it goes from there.” He is also hoping to take a trip to Hawaii, he said.
Asked if he planned to go to work tomorrow, he responded with one word: "No."
