A Brooklyn woman claims that her mother stole her $1million lottery winnings and used the funds for plastic surgery, court documents claim.
Linza Ford, 21, claims winning the scratch-off lottery ticket in November 2012 and allowing her mother, Barbara Quiles, 51, to use funds to pay of debts, tuition and healthcare costs and care for her younger sister.
The documents came after Quiles claimed an illness forced her to put her daughter in charge of collecting the winnings from a lottery ticket that had been purchased on November 27, 2012, at a market in Bensonhurst, according to the lawsuit Quiles filed earlier this year.
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| Linza Ford 21, claims that her mother stole her $1million lottery |
Quiles claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that after Ford turned over the winning ticket, she appeared in local media outlets, stating she was going to use the money to go back to school.
But Ford claims the story played out a bit differently.
'I thought the lottery ticket would help me obtain an education and better my life; instead, the money has restricted my ability to receive financial aid towards my education and turned (Quiles) against me,' Ford wrote in an affidavit. 'I was left to care for my little sister, study for college and hold down a part-time job,' she wrote.
In an article that ran in 2012, Ford, then 19, posed with an over-sized check for $1million and told the Daily News that after her dad went on disability, she had to drop out of her dream school, Hofstra University.
'I didn't want to leave,' she said at the time. 'That's one of the colleges I really wanted to go to. I was sobbing.'
Ford, who then claimed she wanted to finish her degree in psychology or social work, said she told her mom about winning from a scratch-off. 'I think she freaked out more than I did,' Ford said.
When Ford, 21, moved out of her mother's home in Bensonhurst and into her grandmother's in Elmira, New York, Quiles filed a lawsuit against her daugher, claiming Ford acted 'illegally, maliciously, and recklessly with the purpose of intentionally exploiting' Quiles.
If the lawsuit holds truth, Ford's attorneys charged that passing the money to Ford is Quiles' attempt to cheat the government by still collecting Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits. She has also allegedly avoided paying back the funds from ten years of public assistance she's received.
'It appears that none of the lottery ticket winnings were used to repay (Quiles') public assistance benefits, despite (Quiles') claiming to be the rightful owner of the proceeds,' according to court documents.
Quiles was convicted of welfare fraud in 1989, when she was sentenced to five years probation and was ordered to pay $7,500 in restitution.
The mother-daughter duo will return to court on October 22, before the New York State Lottery issues the third $50,000 - before taxes - installment of the jackpot winnings in November.
Ford's bank accounts have been temporarily frozen, per a judge's order.
Ford posted to Facebook earlier this year that her mother 'suffers from bipolar disorder.'
'I won the lottery and I signed for the ticket in November almost 3 years ago,' she added. 'This b------- you're reading is exactly that.'
Readers what will you do if she was your mum?
(Dailymail UK)
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