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Lawyer: Lottery winners to file privacy request
Jun. 21, 2012 10:30 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS - An injunction will be filed next week to keep confidential the identities of 20 Quaker plant co-workers who won a $241 million Powerball jackpot, the group's attorney said Thursday.
The 18 men and two women of “The Shipping 20” each contributed money for the winning ticket, legally creating a constructive trust, Cedar Rapids attorney Joe Day said. That means the person who purchased the ticket is the trustee while the others are beneficiaries, he said, and the lottery can't legally reveal the names of those beneficiaries.
They chose to take the prize in a lump sum, which means each trust member will receive about $5.6 million after taxes.
The winners, ranging in age from 35 to 64, all live in and around Cedar Rapids and are longtime Quaker employees. They're members of Local 110 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, whose job is to ship out boxes of cereal from the plant.
A group know as 'The Shipping 20' claimed the $241 Million Powerball Jackpot. It is a group of 20 co-workers from the shipping department at a Quaker Oats Co, a Cereal Manufacturer in Cedar Rapids. This is the largest lottery prize won to date in Iowa. (Andrea Melendez/The Des Moines Register)
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