Two men sue N.J. for $1M after tossing winning lottery ticket

Two men sue N.J. for $1M after tossing winning lottery ticket

JUNE 25, 2014, 10:56 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014, 11:18 PM
BY MICHAEL LINHORST
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A million-dollar lottery ticket sold in Mahwah is buried somewhere in a Canadian landfill, and now the men who bought it are suing the Lottery Commission to try to get their money.

They say they threw the Powerball ticket away because they thought it was a loser after checking the winning numbers on the lottery’s website — which, they claim, hadn’t been updated.

This wasn’t just any Powerball drawing: It was the $338 million jackpot from March 23, 2013, won by Passaic resident Pedro Quezada.

The men with the missing ticket — Salvatore Cambria and Erick Onyango of Suffern, N.Y. — filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this week, arguing the lottery is at fault for failing to post the accurate numbers online more quickly.

Quezada won the grand prize by getting every number right, including the Powerball.

Cambria said his ticket had every correct number except the Powerball, a combination that would have won him the consolation prize of $1 million.

But he didn’t know that on the night of the drawing.

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