Heartwarming Lottery Story a Hoax
Yesterday evening the NY Post published a heartwarming story that spread through social media like wildfire: a nurse at a California nursing home received a Powerball ticket from her boss – Frum businessman and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz – and won the largest jackpot in lottery history. Unfortunately, the story turned out to be a hoax.
From the NY Daily News:
A celebration broke out at a California nursing home after a worker was told she was one of the Powerball winners — but it turned out to be a prank, relatives said Thursday.
The heartwarming story unraveled hours after a manager at the Park Avenue Health & Wellness Center in Pomona told reporters the staffer was a newly-minted millionaire.
David Levy, the nursing home’s administrator, said the facility was abuzz Wednesday night after the woman received a call from her son saying she was the winner.
The nurse’s son went so far as to send her a picture of what he said was the winning ticket, Levy said.
“It’s a joke. It’s a prank…by my brother,” the 56-year-old nurse’s daughter Jennifer told the Daily News from her house in Pomona on Thursday evening. “It’s embarrassing. This is too much for us,” she said, visibly upset by all the fuss.
CH resident
What is NOT a hoax, is that Rechnitz did buy the tickets, and that is a kiddush Hashem
so sad
A real backfire
Unemployed Noachide
Someone needs a lesson in mussar. This is why it’s so important for Jews to be a light to the Nations. Where there is no Torah … there are no manners. Shine, Klal Yisrael! Shine! Don’t be afraid to give the Nations mussar! Where there is no man, be a man!