Coworkers share $543M jackpot

National News

August 4, 2018 - 4:00 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A group of California co-workers who decided to play the lottery on a whim won last month’s $543 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest prize ever on a single state ticket, the California Lottery said Friday.

The 11 co-workers who work in the financial industry in the San Francisco Bay Area said they don’t have a regular lottery pool but decided to chip in $2 a piece when they heard how big the jackpot had become, the Lottery said in a news release Friday.

“It was spur of the moment,” said Roland Reyes, the only person among the co-workers whose name has been released, the Lottery said.

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