Convicted Sex Offender Wins $3 Million Lottery * update

[DiamondSmiles]

WPVI

December 10, 2014

A convicted sex offender won a multi-million dollar jackpot from the Florida Lottery over the past weekend.

Timothy Poole, 43, of Mount Dora, Florida won $3 million from a scratch off ticket he purchased at a 7-Eleven over the weekend, according to the New York Daily News.

Poole, who currently works as a cab driver for his mother's taxi company, was arrested in 1999 after allegedly sexually battering a 9 year old boy.

Poole denied the allegations and went to jail for 13 months. Poole was sent to prison in 2003 again after not attending four of his sex offender counseling sessions.

Poole has had no run ins with the law since his release in 2006.

Poole claimed his winnings this week in a lump sum payment that totals $2,219,807.90.

A Florida Lottery spokesperson told the New York Daily News, that payments are not withheld based on a winner's criminal background.

However, if a lottery winner does owe money to a state agency, such as child support, then it can be withheld.

Photos - Timothy Poole, a convicted sex offender, with the same smiling face in his mugshot and lottery shot, won $3 million off of a Florida Lottery scratch ticket he bought over the weekend. (Florida Lottery / Florida Department of Law Enforcement)

[Mr Poo]

FUCKING FLORIDA..

[niknik]

Factoid.

1 out of every 488 people in Inglewood California is a registered sex offender.

[thckoitin]

So what?? He did his sentence. True american spirit, mix your feelings in convictions and after them they still haven't done their sentence.

He is free. He can even win in lottery. There is a mistake in the world? That's just right.

[commondenom]

good on the fat bastard....

made his mistake, served his time (not enough in my eyes but enough in the eyes of the law) and won the fucking lottery...score!!

as long as he keeps his porky sausage fingers off of any more kids i'm happy for him....

....this article is a perfect example of how the 'news' insists on distorting every story to create fear and shock.

[hal0mega]

[Rednose]

Sometimes even assholes have luck

But after it was made public, I don't think he'll be a lucky man. I bet a lot of criminals are sticking their noses into a telephone book to check out his address, right now.

[DiamondSmiles]

Most big lottery winners blow it all and die after their money is gone.

One poor man, Abraham Shakespeare, had his stolen by some bitch and a guy.

Apparently, he wasn't very intelligent and they somehow gained hs trust. They found him buried. The woman, last I knew, was in jail.

What a great name! Abraham Shakespeare!

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...erview-133125/

[Rednose]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles

Most big lottery winners blow it all and die after their money is gone.

One poor man, Abraham Shakespeare, had his stolen by some bitch and a guy.

Apparently, he wasn't very intelligent and they somehow gained hs trust. They found him buried. The woman, last I knew, was in jail.

What a great name! Abraham Shakespeare!

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...erview-133125/

Indeed, poor man
It's always the same, people not only win a lot of money in a lottery, they also win a lot of "new good Friends" with it.
And somehow the money seems to make most of the winners blind, they just don't get what's going on, or they realize it when it's too late

[niknik]

Originally Posted by commondenom

good on the fat bastard....

made his mistake, served his time (not enough in my eyes but enough in the eyes of the law) and won the fucking lottery...score!!

as long as he keeps his porky sausage fingers off of any more kids i'm happy for him....

....this article is a perfect example of how the 'news' insists on distorting every story to create fear and shock.

True. He's probably not the first sex offender to win the lottery.