Douchebag Du Jour: John Piccolo

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Lotto woe in win-ville
BY HELEN PETERSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 21st, 2005

Beware the office lottery pool.

Three hospital employees who thought they were about to split a second-place Mega Millions jackpot worth $175,000 are suing a co-worker who insists he bought the winning ticket for himself.

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Edmondson told the Daily News yesterday that Piccolo offered to give her a Mega Millions umbrella that officials handed him when he picked up his check.

"He said, 'There is nothing you can do. The courts won't take it.' He even had the nerve to come to work and show us the receipt for the money with the taxes taken out of it," she added.

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Piccolo offered each person in the pool $1,000 - but later halved it to $500 saying he needed money for a down payment on a house. "He offered some money because he thought it was the right thing to do," said his lawyer, Thomas Weiss.

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Read the rest (it's quite wretched): http://www.nydailynews.com/04-21-2005/news/story/302104p-258583c.html

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