Attorney Jamie E. Wright considered that discovering the exact truth related to the lawsuit for the alleged theft of the winning $2 billion Powerball ticket in California is almost impossible.
In an interview at the beginning of the month with The US Sun, the legal representative questioned the content of the appeal.
“Frankly, this lawsuit smacks of farce,” declared the lawyer, who specializes in strategies for political campaigns and corporate businesses.
Wright, with an office in California, added that, without witnesses and without solid evidence before the Police of the alleged robbery, he does not see how the plaintiff, identified as José Rivera, prevails in the dispute.
“Without a reliable witness to the alleged theft or a solid report to support the allegations, establishing the true owner of the Powerball ticket seems almost impossible,” he said.
“Surely, we are going to need someone to step forward and allege: ‘I saw the plaintiff buying that ticket,’ or other tangible proof of purchase,” he argued.
Rivera’s legal representatives are allegedly trying to get the California Lottery to release security camera footage from Joe’s Service Station, the Altadena business where the record-breaking winning ticket was purchased.
Allegedly, the images include Rivera buying the winning ticket.
In an interview with the New York Post in May, Urachi F. Romero denied taking the ticket and called on the California Lottery to release the images that, according to the man, will show Rivera purchasing the ticket and cigarettes.
In the lawsuit, Romero, who rented a room in his house from Rivera, is named as the person who stole the ticket.
But the specific circumstances of the alleged theft are not set out in the document; nor how the ticket would have passed from the hands of Romero to those of Castro, who claimed the prize from the lottery.
“I saw José Rivera with that ticket…he showed it to me,” were part of Romero’s statements to the New York newspaper.
“I asked him why he chose 10 both times. He told me that was the day both parents died. He chose 47 because that is his age. He also said that his father always wanted a 1956 Chevy truck, so he selected the 56. He had a reason for choosing each of the numbers and he told me that before (the drawing), ”he added.
Neither Rivera nor Castro have made public statements about the allegations contained in the lawsuit. However, Castro’s lawyer has used precisely the lack of details about the circumstances of the alleged robbery to argue that the complaint has no legal weight.
“At some point, it will be clear that Edwin G. Castro is the rightful owner of the ticket,” David De Paoli told The US Sun.
“I don’t know if they want to be paid and get money, but they are not going to receive a single dollar,” the legal representative anticipated about the possible intentions of the other two Hispanics.
This Friday, September 29, the parties are summoned to a hearing of the case at the Alhambra Court.
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