Almost 30 years after having promised his best friend to give him half of the jackpot he will perhaps receive one day, Thomas Cook, the big winner of an American lottery, has kept his word … and offered several millions of dollars. dollars to his mate Joseph Feeney.
In the United States, the Powerball lottery makes many happy every year. After having distributed up to 340 million euros to a single winner in March, the American institution has just made the happiness of Thomas Cook, a player from Wisconsin who won 22 million dollars (19 million euros) after the draw on June 10. But not only…
Indeed, rather than keep the jackpot for himself and his family, Thomas Cook remembered a promise he made in 1992, namely to share his winnings with his best friend, Joseph Feeney.
“At the time, we agreed that the winner of the jackpot would give half of what he would win to the other,” recalls Joseph Feeney on the site of “USA Today”. But we never imagined that was going to happen. ”
True to his word – “A promise is a promise,” Thomas Cook explained simply in an interview with the Wisconsin Lottery – Thomas Cook therefore shared half of his loot with his friend.
After the passage of the American tax authorities, each of the two retirees therefore leaves with 4.9 million euros more in their bank account.
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