A Massachusetts dad and his two sons embarked on an elaborate scam which saw them claim 14,000 winning lottery tickets worth $20 million in prizes.
Ali Jaafar, 63, and his son Yousef, 29, were sentenced to five years and 50 months behind bars respectively over the scam, which cost the State of Massachusetts $6 million in lost taxes – and enriched the pair to the tune of $1.2 million.
The pair and another son – Mohamed Jaafar – enlisted convenience store owners to help them identify lottery winners, whose prize they’d then offer to claim in return for a 10 percent cut of winnings.
Winners’ payouts face deductions for any outstanding taxes or child support payments they owe. Giving the Jaafars their tickets allowed winners to dodge these liabilities for an amount less than they’d have lost to the IRS.
The elaborate con – which saw the Jaafars branded ‘the luckiest family in Massachusetts’ – has been dubbed the biggest fraud ever carried out against the state of Massachusetts.
Mohamed Jaafar once interned for Democrat Senator John Kerry and admitted his role in the scheme in November 2022.
Based on the names of these people, I have to assume Middle Eastern. Their culture is to scam people. All the unsolicited calls we get about “your extended warrnaty”, “this is microsoft calling about your computer”, “would you like your heating vents cleaned”, are Middle Eastern people. So, no surprise here!
Well, he did learn from John “Scammer” Kerry.
Pretty clever, actually.
Deport him and his entire family back to the third world sh*thole country that they came from