Lottery Winner Who Continued Taking Welfare Benefits Found Dead

who the hll are these people?

…..dead

Karma I guess

karmas a b.tch ain't it. lol

And she used her welfare money to buy the lottery ticket instead of food.Maybe she starved to Death!

Greed

Money is the answer to all problems…not exhibiting morals, character or kindness to others. I wonder why she died…they never addressed that issue.

WOW! I guess karma does exist! So sad though! I wonder what happened to her?

They said possible drug overdose…yes money is the sander to all things but it also is the root of all evil.

*root not sander

The 'Love' of money is the root of all evil.

They said it was a possibly drug overdose….there

They said a possible drug overdose.

just terrible. stupid people like this are the ones that fuel that idiot mitt romney. ugh.

overdose

I guess nothing will be paid back now.

Everyone forgets this woman was a mother I think its SAD!!

Joanna, are you retarded?

Joanna, are you retarded?

She forgot she was a mother when she did drugs.

AGAIN NOONE KNOWS SHE DIED FROM DRUGS AND HONESTLY ITS NOT AMERICAS PROBLEM IT WAS HERS BUT TEN YEARS FROM NOW HER CHILDREN DO NOT NEED TO SEE ALL THIS CRUEL NEW PAPERS AND PEOPLES OPIONS!! BECAUSE THATS WHAT THEY ARE OPIONS!!

Take a chill pill! 10 years from now thanks to the news her kids will know about it. Don't you think YOUR post is just YOUR opinion? If you don't want opinions given, don't give them yourself. BTW, IT ISN'T NECESSARY TO SHOUT!!!! besides, all you're doing is hitting the keys harder. No one can hear you.

I wonder who gave her the overdose?

So what if she is a mother, she broke the law, period!!!!!!!!!

Karma gets You!

Right on, Patty Stevens!!!!!!!!!

WTF? Still collecting food stamps? She still entitled? GMAFB! She only had to pay back $5500.00 from a 1M winning.

She is dead now.

She probably had to pay back what she accepted after winning the money

I've heard that the guy who invented the lottery also cursed it. Wouldn't surprise me since alot of the winners end up with more problems than they started with. As for this particular story…you have got to be freaking kidding me! And the writer of this story did nothing to explain why or how the woman died–terrible writer. Oh and 1 more thing…I can't believe people commenting are bringing up politics…where does a woman have to hide to get away from this sham of an election? The whole darn thing is an absolute joke that makes me embarrassed for my own country.

Obama all the way!!!!

I am with Joanna on this one. If Mitt has 40% support and represents 1%, 39% are stupid.

that's what happens when you make lottery winners names public. they have the celeberity but not the protection. it's best if they are and remain unknown. they can live their lives without the stalkers and murderers chasing them. the system has a better way of dealing with fraud they didn't have to take her through this and maybe it would not have ended in her death.

money is simply currency. the "root of all evil" is greed.

money is simply currency. the "root of all evil" is greed.

curses aren't real it's not the money its what you do with it there are plenty of lottery winners who are having wonderful lives from the choices they made in life. and the fact that these people's names and images are made public, i think , are part of the problem. no one helps the lottery winners when they are suddenly millionaires and no one advises them on what to do with that money or how to realistically spend it so that they don't wind up broke and depressed. also they have no protection from attackers or stalkers, just a lot of publicity that makes them an overnight celebrity and destroys friendships and family relationships because the friends and family feel they are owed money from winners. all of that leads up to the problems that lottery winners have. there needs to be more protection and privacy for winners. ijs

sorry you can't use welfare money to buy lottery tickets you are very ignorant.

The government will probably have to pay to bury her thieving carcass.

Call it a curse…call it bad luck…call it poor guidance…regardless, I'm a fairly intelligent person when it comes to money, and I wouldn't want to win the lottery….too risky. Nothing in life is free.

I agree. Most of the time when somebody gets a large sum of money everyone starts putting their hands out expecting money. If you've never had much money it is hard to handle…kind of like a kid getting handed a years worth of snacks and goodies all at once and being expected to do the right thing…Ive found that to much money can be just as stressful as too little just my opinion

It said she died of possible drug overdose its in there

Not cool, no one deserves to die especially like that. Wow and we wonder why this country's the way it is SMH

Patty Stevens Lmao funny when someone doesn't have the same views as Rep their "retarded".

my bad…so much drama in the story, I barely noticed.

my bad…so much drama in the story, I barely noticed.

my bad…so much drama in the story, I barely noticed.

Maybe if she had taken a drug screen before getting welfare then her judgement may have been better. She chose to do drugs

Cash assistance "welfare" is a check you cash and spend it on beer drugs lottery tickets hooker or whatever you want. So who is ignorant?

You can always choose to keep your winning private. Your name doesn't have to be made public. You do have a choice.

Mitt represents 100% as does Obama. This lady obviously follows a Liberal lifestyle so would be closer related to what Obama wants, not Romney. Yes Mitt would be fueled by stories like this because it is what he is fighting against in Congress. This woman was convicted of a crime and rightfully so. Obama want't everyone on the government dole, and if anything shows what that is like the story of this woman winning Millions and still thinking she is entitled to Welfare, because she "technically" doesn't have any income.

Yes Patty, she is. What an asinine statement.

Ashley, what comes around goes around. I totally believe it and it has been proven to me time and time again.

There are ways of getting around that. No need for a welfare recipient to call anyone ignorant.

white trash with money is still white trash!

white trash with money is still white trash!

Just because she states something opposite of the truth does not mean she is retarded. If she had a mental block that made her slower to think that would make her retarded. She may be ignorant, but we have to stop with the vile rhetoric, it gets us nowhere. Just like her calling a man intelligent enough to make millions of dollars and be president of the Olympic committee and CEO an idiot. So you are just as bad as her. Doesn't make you look to intelligent if you can't say constructive things without being destructive. It is like building a house of cards in a hurricane.

Not as ignorant as you if you believe this. Whose money did she buy them with then ?? Since he is giving you a free phone you don't need the money for that anymore !!!!

Oh well, I guess she couldn't live with herself!

Karma bus….

actually no!!! It comes on a card these days!! NOW WHOS IGNORANT?? PEOPLE KILL ME!! AND THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN!!

HOW DO YOU PEOPLE SLEEP AT NIGHT??? ALL THIS KARMA THAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT MAYBE YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT THAT AND THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK!! YEAH WHAT SHE DID WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY!! ALSO WHO THE HELL ARE WE TO JUDGE????

I for one sleep at night. I am not doing the judging, I don't have to. She did something wrong. it was plain and simple immorally wrong.. you know how many people who are out there that need it but can't get it because they fall through loopholes.. perhaps you should think about that before you speak

I for one sleep at night. I am not doing the judging, I don't have to. She did something wrong. it was plain and simple~immorally wrong.. you know how many people who are out there that need assistance but can't get it because they fall through loopholes.. maybe she could have played it forward and helped people instead of stealing, we would be having a whole different discussion ___ perhaps you should think about that before you speak.

It's called Karma……..

i understand she did wrong and that there are people who need it a hell of alot more trust me!! However it really isnt our place to cast judgement upon her …seems like her judgement day has come!!! Seems like everyone in our country is doing something wrong these days!! Thats my opion!!! And I just think people should be keeping it it in mind that her children may read this one day and it is not there fault what there parents did or do!! Thats all I am saing!!

I am not judging her by saying Karma gets You.. Consequences…there are consequences to everything we do..this is the lesson I try to teach my children. As for her children, it is too bad that they won't have their mother but these were the consequences of the choices she made — there is no changing that. The children may learn a valuable lesson from it all..you know the old saying "everything happens for a reason."

Party said it best.

mitt romney just wants more wars ugh this country is gonna go to hell no matter what i still think ron paul should of at least have a chance but our government don't want him to talk 'WHY' because he spoke the truth and was the only one that actually made sense and not like this fakers that just want to kiss ass and then when they win nothing happens but our people suffer

Ps, she got food stamps. Read the article ppl.

Talk about being greedy

I don't know of anyone who actually wants wars. They are not helping Obama out and didn't help Bush out, so I doubt that Romney wants them. As far as Ron Paul goes, I like a lot of what he says,but He is either naive or ignorant if he thinks that Muslim extremists will stop attacking us if we stop meddling in their backyards. We are allies with Israel and they hat Jews and Christians. we are seen as a Christian nation by a lot of Countries and Muslim Jihadists call us Little Satan. 911 would have happened regardless of our presence in the Middle East.

no, I'm not being judgmental, I think its wrong to wish death on anyone.. We r all so perfect.

no reason to call ANYONE ignorant

Very simplistic: Karma's a bitch, What goes around comes around, etc. It's all nonsense. Sure, it makes you feel better to believe that because then you get the feeling that there's some justice in the world…….but there isn't. How about when really bad things happen to good people and vice versa. What do you say then? You can't say nothing! Wise up, people.

Very simplistic: Karma's a bitch, What goes around comes around, etc. It's all nonsense. Sure, it makes you feel better to believe that because then you get the feeling that there's some justice in the world…….but there isn't. How about when really bad things happen to good people and vice versa. What do you say then? You can't say nothing! Wise up, people.

A welfare recipient has the same right (as anyone else) to call anyone ignorant. And no, I have never been on welfare or received ANYTHING for free from the government.

A welfare recipient has the same right (as anyone else) to call anyone ignorant. And no, I have never been on welfare or received ANYTHING for free from the government.

Terrica, you seem to be the only one on this thread who is making any sense.

And you don't think that Communist Muslim Obama is not an idiot well then you must be one too !!

Larry R. King If anyone is an idiot it must be you agreeing with Joanna!Believe this when I say Mitt Romney has more of the votes than the biased polls will show you and will be your next President and a REAL Commander in Chief of the US Military !!Just wait a couple more days and see !!

i think obama is just in for the fame not to save this country so hes an bigger idiot than romney

yeah and we will c a bunch of wars and our troops leaving again because thats what romney is all about ugh warmonger

Terrica all I have to say is an old addage.Seek and yee shall find !!If a lottery winner wants to do g
ood with the money all they have to do is ask or look it up .Those that fail probably would have failed anyway !!

May she rest in peace.

May she rest in peace.

Liberalism is a dangerous Mental Disorder. Thanks for letting the World know…

Yes the Welfare Class has always supported the GOP… Seriously, thats your argument, really??? Joanna you're officially a complete idiot and a perfect example of a Democrat Party member. Useless idiots never change.

Lilly G Verret After 3.5 years of Obama selectively killing people (innocents and Americans included) with his drones on his Hitlist its OK. But in your delusional World Romney is the warmonger? Gawd youre an idiot. Liberalism is a dangerous Mental Disorder. Go crawl back into your affirmative action, liberal, social justice based freak show… Youre inexperienced and ignorant foolish child and when you grow up you will realize how dumb you really are… Then again when youre that dumb maybe not.

Money is just a catalyst for an already dysfunctional human to self destruct. Nature always wins but the dumb lose sooner…

sorry cash assistance is not a check it is on a welfare card and the law won't allow cash assistance to be used for any thing but house hold use and there has to be a record to prove that it is needed and was used for that purpose.

Ilse Dujmovic also you don't have to be a recipient of welfare to know the law neither do you have to be dumb to be ignorant it simply means thinking you know something you don't

Tom Riglin sorry cash assistance is not a check it is on a welfare card and the law won't allow cash assistance to be used for any thing but house hold use and there has to be a record to prove that it is needed and was used for that purpose.

Amy Aucoin Byrd ok i get you and i understand your point good point.

not in most states you don't. and in the few you do you have to get brokers and lawyers to make your name and winning private.

clarence i agree to a point some would have failed anyway but others need a bit of help that is a lot of money at one tie. sometimes having too much of a good thing can have bad results

Clarence Zimmerman sometimes its not that easy you don't always know who to trust and having a lot of money sometimes means you're setting yourself up for people to try ot attack you and hurt you even if you are looking for help everyone in this world is not out to help you and everyone is not who they say they are. it's just easier to present winners with people who can help them up front.

*to attack you*

some of you people need to grow up . john and your one of them. that could of been your sister . so wtf . shut your mouth no one deserves to die like that

Clarence Zimmerman remember she's a lottery winner she can buy whatever she wants and just because she's on welfare doesn't mean she doesn't work.

I agree and besides they did't give her a chance to make good on the money she won even if she continued to collect food stamps,did'nt mean she did'nt deserve to eat/look's like to me malnutrition was part of the cause/this is sad not only that /she won the lottory enough money to now provide for herself a lot of benifits come from lottery proceeds/she might have not really needed the food stamps /she was now independent/finacially /this is an shame/maybe she wanted to make good on her burden to goverment /maybe she really did need help and the food stamps was all that she had to still feel like she had a chance if only it was enough/you can't buy lotto with food stamps maybe somebody wanted to buy durgs or beer and she took a dollar and bought a tiket and had no idea she was going to win/that could make the difference in being on food stamps like that is the worst thing in the world to do/what a shame this poor women should have had more protection for her life/regardless of the lottory or food stamps/all that publiscity was not what she needed at all/ these people should be ashmed of themselve's

Valerie McLaughlin /she won the lottery no one knows if they are going to win/ she took a chance a chance the would have changed her life/because she still recieved food stamps does not mean she did not deserve to eat/did she even have a chance to spend any of the money I'm quite sure with a littlle assistance she would have made good on her burden to government/we are talking food stamps and this is America and if I'm not mistaken she is an American and one thing we do do is feed those who are hungry and not only that/I feel the poor woman has suffering enough /listening to some of these comments is very disheartening when this is Our Country/ people have come along way /and to have to be subjected on these meritt's in my opinion is unAmerican. Maybe we should redefine Assistance then to protect ourselve's from this type of misjudgement's in the future. God bless her!!!!!

WELL SAID!!

You people should be ashamed of your self!! She was someones granddaughter, daughter, mother ect……. and there is not one perfect man or woman on this earth!! Jesuse, is the only one!! and he and our father will do our judgen!!! THANKYOU!!!

I think more like hunger/you might not belive it but there are numbers of us folk's that don't even know how to cook/imange that /maybe she would have did better pan handling at burger king drive through/better yet maybe the gabage can/and not told anybody and ended up dead any way/that is a lot of money /people are not very kind now day/the women needed help/no one gave a dam before she won and wth what difference did it make if she was on food stamps/she took a chance and won the lottory/is there a law against that/if it is then I think they should end the lottory but not food stamps/maybe she had to sell her body for money and then brought the ticket/maybe some john brought if for her/something is not sounding right here/no one was there with her when see played that ticket /to me that would say no one was tther to guide her/ we are all aware of the problem's when it come's to money/and no one knew what dream's this woman had for herself or her family/if winning the lottory was a way to that dream she still had no way of knowing she was going to win/I think her money should be used to investagate what really happened to her/because this is looking real ugly. she looked very hungery to me/being on food stamps is not against the law regardless in my opinion nor is being hungry or playing the lottory/this is a disgrace/what is a lottory winning welfare recipient any way?

People.. come on down off the soap box.. all I said was Karma gets You.. didn't say she was right, wrong or indifferent. honestly, I could care less. the fact is Karma gets You!.

If she was addicted to a drug, then that's considered a disease, just like cancer. Sometimes "choosing" to do drugs is less of a "choice" than some people might think.

and yes, Jesus will be the judge.and he will forgive her. so stop your worrying.

I don't know if the laws have changed recently, but as of four to six years ago, you didn't have to provide any proof of what you spent the money on, at least not in NY.

No, that would be you and Kelli.

and Anita Brokow. what are you talking about because she received food stamps she didn't deserve to eat." because she still recieved food stamps does not mean she did not deserve to eat." I don't even know what that means!!!

She collected assistance after winning..okay.. do the math.. she should not have needed assistance to eat. She should have stopped collecting.. I have seen many people ROB, and I mean rob the system not needing what they were getting from the Government because they were lazy and felt that it was beneath them to take a job at a low-paying job. and noooooooooooooooo I am not saying she did this but she should have stopped collecting…

I sure hope you don't live in a glass house!

Are you telling me you've NEVER lied, cheated, stolen or broken the law in any other way that could negatively affect others? Even speeding could end up in an accident that causes serous injury to someone else, so take care about casting stones until you walk in someone else's shoes.

differant states have differant laws i suppose.

If she was addicted, she didn't "forget." She had a DISEASE, God help her. May the first "perfect" mother here please step forward. We ALL make mistakes and bad choices at one time or another. It's called LIFE!

Perhaps you should think about if you EVER made a mistake/bad choice in your life before? I don't know ANYONE who's perfect, and I know a LOT of REALLY good people, but none who are without fault, including myself, then or now. Do you really have the right to cast the first stone? I HIGHLY doubt it!

ladie noone was only just pointing out you but but you know what you got a guilty con?? so be it personally I think your a real BITCH!!!! A DESCRACE TO AMERICANS!! THATS JUST MY OPINION!!!

Valerie McLaughlin JUST HORRIABLE

lol.. okay you are entitled to your opinion just as I am.. but a "descrace to Americans" omgosh.. that's good!!! you are a disgrace to the school system in America. just sayin'

And yes, by saying that karma gets you, you basically ARE saying that she did something wrong…correct?

NO MORON ITS CALLED A TYPO

hahahahah

AND YOUR RITE MY WAS MY MISTAKE…OH SEE MISTAKE!! EVERYONE MAKES THEM!! THANKYOU I DID GO TO SCHOOL !! IDC WHAT YOU OR ANYONE THINKS BUT THATS OUR PROBLEM WE CANT KEEP OUR MOUTH SHUT IF YOU WERE ON THE STREETS I BET YOU WOULD OR SOMEONE WOULD SHUT IT FOR YOU !!! SO LIKE MY MOTHER SAID IF YOU DONT HAVE NOTHING NICE TO SAY DONT SAY ANYTHING AT ALL!!

well that is smart advice, you should take it!

Lisa Mediak Yes thats what she said ..however I think it was a rude comment to make along with alot of others on here , but they cant help it that there ignorant!!! I belive that you should know someones storie before making a judgement but I guess thats my opion , idk….I just think that this is a sad story!!

When you have never had anything and you come into sudden money, results such as these come up very easily. I feel no pitty for any dope user or dope seller.

Valerie you are just a miserable old woman!!

I am not wasting any more of my time on someone like you!!

tisk..tisk…tisk.. actually I am a very happy conscious clear woman that really has more important things to do with her time that responding to you.. so thank you for not wasting any more your time on me.

just a waste, you are an ignorant soul!!

People on welfare buy lottery tickets all the time. I work at a store where they do and can.