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A Wisconsin man accidentally bought a Megabucks lottery number when he meant to purchase a Powerball ticket, and mistakenly made $14.3 million .
Napolean Elvord, a Vietnam veteran, played the lotto on Jan. 14, with the winning ticket sitting on his table days before he realized it.
“I think it was a mistake because I was trying to play the Powerball,” he told the Wisconsin State Journal. Elvord will be getting a lump sum payment of $10.2 million and will have to pay $6.87 million in taxes.
“It’s still going through my head,” he added, saying that he bought it at the Kelley Williamson Mobil station along with coffee.
Elvord came into the lottery office to check if he won the grand prize and realized he was the winner. “The first thing they asked me was, ‘Did you make up the ticket?’” he told the newspaper.
His first priority, Elvord said, is to get health care insurance because he is in need of a kidney transplant and has been on dialysis for several years, according to the Journal. He would also like to move back to Texas, where he was originally from.
“I do look at the economy and think about the people that have lost homes that had homes and had jobs. I’m into construction, and I’m looking at possibly doing something in that area to re-sell homes and bring people back into their housing area,” he told NBC15.
