Prison Likely<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cThis defendant thought she hit the jackpot when she passed off her cousin\u2019s $1 million winning \u2018scratch-off\u2019 ticket as her own and claimed a lump sum payout of more than $500,000,\u201d said Nassau County DA Anne Donnelly in a statement. \u201cBut her greedy actions also spelled the end of her luck, and now she will serve time in prison for her crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Argueta will face between 15 months and four years in prison when she’s sentenced on March 15. She has also been ordered to pay $317,857.13 in winnings from her bank account to her cousin, who got to remain anonymous after all.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe DA\u2019s Office told The Daily Mail<\/em> that a judgment order for the outstanding $206,147 will be made at her sentencing hearing. During her plea hearing, she told the court she didn’t have the full sum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lottery winner from Houston, Texas has pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny after admitting to stealing the $1M winning ticket from her cousin. Iris Amador Argueta, 32, was initially given the scratch-off ticket to cash by the real winner, according to prosecutors. He wanted to remain anonymous, which isn’t currently an option in New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":255266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13699],"tags":[84679,13701],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
$1M Lottery Winner Admits Stealing Ticket from Cousin<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n