A South Dakota trust claimed a winning Lotto Texas jackpot six days before the ticket would have expired.<\/p>\n
The winning ticket for the estimated annuitized $78 million jackpot was purchased at Gordon\u2019s Bait & Tackle in Brownsville ahead of the drawing on Nov. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Texas Lottery said Monday that Jua-Ri Trust Agreement Trident Trust Company Inc., of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, claimed the prize on May 8.State lottery officials did not say how many people were a part of the trust or identify the winners. Texas lottery winners can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n
The cash value option was selected at the time of purchase, and the claimant received $43,757,223.10 before taxes. After federal taxes of roughly 35%, the trust will collect approximately $28,440,000.Texas does not collect state tax on lottery winnings.<\/p>\n
The jackpot was the sixth-largest Lotto Texas jackpot in state history. <\/p>\n
Had the ticket not been validated before Thursday, the unclaimed prize would have been allocated to state programs authorized by the Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Dakota trust claimed a winning Lotto Texas jackpot six days before the ticket would have expired.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3822,27,29,3823,28],"class_list":["post-288602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-lottery","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-lottery","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}