PA Lottery: 16 Southeastern PA Co-Workers Share $250,000 Mega Millions Prize

LEVITTOWN – Sixteen current and former employees of the Kmart distribution center in Fairless Hills, Bucks County, won $250,000 from the Mega Millions drawing on Jan. 28.

Lottery Deputy Executive Director Tom Blaskiewicz recently presented a ceremonial check to the group at Beer-A-Rama in Levittown, Bucks County, where the ticket was purchased. The store receives a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

Sharing equally in the prize are the following winners:

• Joyce Adamo, of Levittown, Bucks County;
• Francine Carney, of Langhorne, Bucks County;
• Alfred Costantini, of Fairless Hills, Bucks County;
• Francis Dean, of Levittown, Bucks County;
• Elmer Erhard, of Levittown, Bucks County;
• Thomas Erhard, of Levittown, Bucks County;
• Frank Manero, of Croydon, Bucks County;
• Jeffrey Moore, of Levittown, Bucks County;
• Brian Nau, of Fairless Hills, Bucks County ;
• Susan Palesky, of Fairless Hills, Bucks County;
• Andrew Puskar, of Fairless Hills, Bucks County;
• Paul Siegel, of Yardley, Bucks County;
• David Vizsolyi, of Holland, Bucks County;
• Raymond Wiseley, of Collingdale, Delaware County;
• Donald Wolf, of Levittown, Bucks County; and
• Richard Wollover, of Levittown, Bucks County.

The group’s quick-pick ticket from the Jan. 28 drawing correctly matched all five white balls, 14-33-48-49-50, but not the yellow Mega Ball 18, for a prize of $250,000, less 25-percent federal withholding.  Each group member will receive $11,718.75 after taxes.

Puskar started a Powerball pool with his co-workers at the Kmart distribution center, but left for a new job in 2010. Nau continued the pool and added Mega Millions to the group’s purchases when the game debuted in Pennsylvania last year.

“When Brian called me, he asked, ‘Are you sitting down?'” said Puskar. “I thought it was bad news, and he assured me it was good news. I replied, ‘What did we do, hit the Lottery?'”

Nau is a family friend of Frank LaRosa, who owns Beer-A-Rama, and he buys the Kmart group’s tickets there every Friday, choosing Powerball or Mega Millions based on which game has the higher jackpot.

The group missed out on the Jan. 28 advertised jackpot of $77 million by just one number, the Mega Ball number of 18 – which coincidentally is also Nau’s softball jersey number.