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MEET THE WINNER OF THE $315.3 MILLION POWERBALL PRIZE
Updated: Jan. 30, 2019, 4:00 a.m. | Published: Jun. 08, 2018, 6:05 p.m.
Tayeb Souami, of Little Ferry is announced as the sole winner of the Powerball
Jackpot on June 8, 2018, ay NJ Lottery headquarters. The winning ticket was from
the May 19, 2018 game. (Michael Mancuso | NJ.com)
By Chris Franklin | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Tayeb Souami was all smiles Friday as New Jersey lottery officials announced
that he was the winner of the $315.3 million Powerball jackpot.
"My day has come," the 55-year-old accountant told a crowd during a lottery
presentation Friday. "Hopefully one day it will come for you too."
He added that he did work for a food importing company, but has quit his job
since winning the jackpot.
The Little Ferry native elected to take the cash payout, meaning he will receive
$183.2 million, before taxes.
"This is big. I am very emotional right now. I like the numbers and I always
play with those numbers," he said.
Souami said he found out he was the winner on Sunday morning. He had planned to
do some work, but realized his car was dirty. On his way to a car wash, he saw a
7-Eleven and stopped in to check his Powerball tickets.
"When I went inside, I scanned the first ticket and it wasn't the winner. The
second ticket was good but the machine said it must be seen by the retailer," he
said.
"The clerk kept saying, 'oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,' and my heart went
just like a 'Tom and Jerry' cartoon when the heart went boom boom ... and I
found out after that I was the one."
He had bought two tickets while returning a product at the ShopRite.
Souami said he will talk to his financial advisor about what to do with the
money, but he did say that one of the first things he will do is take care of
his family, especially when it comes to the education of his two children.
The father had just refinanced his house in order to send his daughter to
college, he said. He received the check just a week before winning the prize.
Originally from Africa, Souami came to the United States in 1996. When asked
what country he was from, he declined to specify.
He described himself as an intermittent lottery player.
Souami purchased the lone winning lottery ticket -- with the winning numbers 3,
6, 9, 17, 56 and the Powerball 25 for the Saturday, May 19 drawing -- at a
ShopRite located on South River Street in Hackensack.
To say Souami was just lucky would be an understatement. The odds of winning the
May drawing were one in 292.2 million.
Souami's windfall is the fourth largest lottery jackpot won in the state
lottery's history. Back in April, Richard Wahl of Vernon won the largest amount
of money in the state's history, $533 million after playing Powerball.
Chris Franklin can be reached at cfranklin@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on
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