A Massachusetts father and son have been imprisoned for lottery fraud after falsely winning the lottery 14,000 times.
According to the US attorney’s office in Boston, Ali Jaafar (63), and his son Yousef Jaafar (29) from Watertown cashed in more than 14,000 winning lottery tickets over the last decade. The duo, who took the role of “10-percenters”, ran a ticket-cashing scheme at an industrial scale.
While getting rich on their own, the Jaafars were also helping the rightful lottery winners steer clear from paying the mandatory taxes on their windfall, according to the same prosecutors. They accomplished the latter by withholding critical information when filling in the tax returns, thus cheating the Internal Revenue Service out of approximately $6 million.
According to the US attorney’s office in Boston, Ali Jaafar (63), and his son Yousef Jaafar (29) from Watertown cashed in more than 14,000 winning lottery tickets over the last decade. The duo, who took the role of “10-percenters”, ran a ticket-cashing scheme at an industrial scale.
While getting rich on their own, the Jaafars were also helping the rightful lottery winners steer clear from paying the mandatory taxes on their windfall, according to the same prosecutors. They accomplished the latter by withholding critical information when filling in the tax returns, thus cheating the Internal Revenue Service out of approximately $6 million.
