1 of 14 jackpot winners buys new Corvette

Associated Press

TOLEDO

A group of Michigan autoworkers won a share of a Powerball jackpot, and one of them has already splurged on a piece of Detroit muscle — a new Corvette.

They picked the right guy to buy the lucky ticket, an Ohio man who had won a $100,000 lottery jackpot about six years ago.

The ticket-buyer, longtime Chrysler worker William Shanteau, and 13 others who live in Michigan hold one of two winning tickets in last week’s $96.9 million Powerball drawing. They claimed their prize Monday and chose to take a lump-sum cash payment, worth about $25.1 million. After taxes, each autoworker gets $1.2 million.

Most of the winners work in the paint shop at a Chrysler plant in Detroit that makes Jeep Grand Cherokees.

The carryout owner who sold the ticket said Shanteau already bought a new Corvette and promised to buy his wife a new Jeep.

The other winning ticket was sold in Montana.

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