Bernie Madoff's pain is a Queens man's gain as Ponzi schemer's jail number is a Lotto winner

[Tripper11]

Source: New York Daily News

Someone is finally making some money off Bernie Madoff.

A Queens construction worker used the swindler's prison number to play the lottery and won $1,500.

Ralph Amendolaro, 50, noticed the digits under Madoff's mug on the front page of the Daily News the day after he pleaded guilty - 61727-054.

When he stopped at a corner store near his Glendale home on March 13, he played the last three digits in the New York State Lottery's Numbers game.

"I'm going to be a winner with this guy even though everyone lost money with him," Amendolaro thought at the time. "Somebody had to get a little lucky with him."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/03/23/2009-03-23_bernie_madoffs_pain_is_a_queens_mans_gai.html

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All I can say is :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[aquart]

1. Love it.

[depakid]

2. Funny story but...

some people never learn:

He plans to hand a chunk of the cash over to his wife for a 50th birthday trip to Las Vegas with friends and take his family out for a nice dinner.

"Hopefully it will turn into more money," he said.

[Redwraithvienna]

4. So ?

everybody hopes that they will make Money at Vegas.

And if not .. well at least he had a good time.

[JTFrog]

6. Well that $1500 is barely going to get him and his wife over there.

The potential for loss is fairly HIGH.

Unless he hits a jackpot, he's not even gonna be close to break even.

Yeah, he'll have a good time, but that gotta have more fever has taken down much bigger prey than him. :rofl:

[rcrush]

3. Proof that the lotto is fixed.

I knew it.

[lonestarnot]

5. Now that is rich, no pun intended.

:rofl: I agree with another poster on this thread, the lotto is fixed.

[Jefferson23]

7. Too funny, I just wish the guy had won much more! Excellent story!