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May 23, 2013                                                                              (518) 388-3415

Three from Queens, Long Island to Receive $34,500,000 in Lottery Prizes

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. – The New York Lottery's Yolanda Vega will introduce three new Lottery millionaires from Queens and Long Island. The latest lucky players to receive prize checks worth a collective $34,500,000 include:

• A Brentwood, Suffolk County man who won $26,500,000 from the April 10 Lotto drawing; 
• A Cambria Heights, Queens, man who won $3,000,000 on the $3,000,000 Jackpot scratch-off game; and
• A Franklin Square, Nassau County man who won the first $5,000,000 top prize on the Maximum Millions scratch-off game.

The event will be held at the pharmacy in Brentwood that sold the $26,500,000 jackpot-winning Lotto ticket.