Powerball winner Edwin Castro is trying to get a lawyer to quash the lawsuit he's facing from a man who says the $2 billion lottery ticket was stolen from him and that the thief tried to blackmail him in exchange for returning it.
Castro's lawyers also say that the summons relating to Jose Rivera's suit was given to the millionaire's father by mistake.
Both Castro and Rivera say that they bought the winning ticket at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, California.
Edwin H.
Castro Sr. said in a sworn declaration that a process server came to his Altadena home on April 25 to present the summons and سرورمجازی ایران the lawsuit. The Powerball winner shares a name with his father but has a different middle initial.
'I told the process server that he was serving the wrong Edwin Castro, but he displayed little concern,' the elder Castro says.
The Powerball winner says that he never received a summons.
Castro's lawyers say there are no details in the legal documents about how the ticket wound up in his possession. On this basis, Castro's attorney's are asking a judge to quash the complaint.
Edwin Castro is facing a lawsuit that alleges his $2billion winning Powerball lottery ticket was stolen
Joe's Service Center in Altadena, California, where the ticket was purchased in November 2022
Castro has been spotted leaving a bank in a vintage Porsche and purchased two California homes for $29million since taking home nearly $1billion after taxes from his lottery win
In the suit, Rivera says he bought the ticket on November 8, the day before the drawing. The ticket was then stolen by a man named as Reggie.
Reggie's real name is Urachi F. Romero.
Rivera does not say when exactly Romero is thought to have stolen the ticket. In legal terms, his lawyers say that the accusers 'fails to allege facts that create a nexus between Edwin G.
Castro and 'Reggie.'
'There are no facts as to how Edwin Castro came into possession of the winning Powerball ticket from 'Reggie,' the complaint continued.
Rivera says that Romero repeatedly refused to return the ticket.
Romero said he would split the winnings with Rivera if he could find the ticket. He later told Rivera that the ticket was a loser.
Shortly after Castro was announced as the winner on February 14, Rivera made complaints to the California Lottery in both Chatsworth and Santa Fe Springs.
The Santa Fe office accepted his complaint.
He alleges that up until Castro was announced as the winner, Romero threatened to destroy the ticket unless he agreed to split the winnings equally.
His lawyers are demanding that any and all surveillance video from Joe's Service Center from the day the ticket was bought be preserved.
The winning ticket - 10, 33, 41, 47, 56, and Powerball 10 - was sold at the Altadena store, which also saw a $1million payout for the historic win.