Ex-Bengal Domata Peko's father-in-law receives $1M after selling $2B Powerball ticket - Fox Business

The winning summons for the record $2.04 cardinal Powerball jackpot was sold astatine a California convenience store owned by the father-in-law of a erstwhile NFL player. 

Joe Chahayed is the father-in-law of erstwhile Bengals and Broncos antiaircraft tackle Domata Peko, who besides played for the Baltimore Ravens and finished his vocation with the Arizona Cardinals.

Chahayed was each smiles arsenic helium held a Powerball bonus cheque for $1 cardinal extracurricular his Joe's Service Center successful California Tuesday.

"I’m 75, inactive young. I volition beryllium present time astatine 6 o’clock. I emotion work," said Chahayed, who wore a California Lottery chapeau and matching T-shirt that said "Millionaire Made Here."

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Business proprietor Joe Chahayed holds a Powerball bonus cheque extracurricular Joe's Service Center, which sold the winning Powerball summons of implicit $2 cardinal successful Altadena, Calif., Nov. 8, 2022.  (Xinhua via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Officials person not released the individuality of the ticket holder who matched each six numbers: 10, 33, 41, 47, 56 and a Powerball of 10.

"Somebody is holding onto a precise important portion of insubstantial this greeting worthy $2.04 billion," California Lotto spokeswoman Carolyn Becker told reporters extracurricular the store.

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Peko sent a tweet Tuesday nighttime congratulating his father-in-law.

Chahayed mentioned that helium plans to stock the wealth with his family, which includes 11 grandchildren.

Domata Peko of the Cincinnati Bengals warms up anterior to a crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Heinz Field Sept. 18, 2016, successful Pittsburgh. (Joe Sargent/Getty Images / Getty Images)

Chahayed’s lad Danny, who helps tally the business, noted that helium encouraged his begetter to retire, but that is unlikely.

Danny said helium hopes the victor "is really from the community, truthful that mode they cognize the struggles of the radical astir here, and they tin springiness back."

Joe Chahayed left, holds a cheque for $1 cardinal for a retailer selling bonus adjacent to Daniel Chahayed astatine Joe's Service Center Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, successful Altadena, Calif. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The convenience store has proved to beryllium fortunate successful the past. According to Chahayed, the store antecedently sold Super Lotto and Fantasy 5 tickets that resulted successful $8,000 to $9,000 successful winnings for the summons holders.

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According to the Multi-State Lottery Association, the likelihood of matching each 5 numbers and the Powerball fig is 1 successful 292.2 million.