Ali Jaafar, 63, of Watertown, started the elaborate scheme around 2011.
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Instead of claiming the lucky ticket themselves, the winners have middlemen like the Jaafars to claim the prize in exchange for a 10 to 25 percent cut of the earnings. Most of the time, Ali or one of his sons showed up and purchased the ticket for slightly less than the full prize, and never even learned the real winner’s name, the outlet reported.The convenience store operators got their own kickback – typically between $50 and $100 – and the Jaafars marched to the lottery office to claim the jackpot.
By that point, though, the IRS was also starting to sniff them out: Undercover IRS agent sold winning tickets to a convenience store clerk in Somerville, only for those tickets to end up in the hands of Yousef Jaafar’s stand-ins, Ahmed Shikhalard and Nicholas Frankel, the Globe reported.
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