02/26/2013    

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NY Podiatrist Wins $5M in Lottery

A Long Island man who owed back taxes, and ran into problems with the department of Taxation and Finance, was announced yesterday as a $5 million lottery jackpot winner. Dr. David Shaffer, a podiatrist working in Flushing, Queens, will take home $3.1 million, after taxes, for scratching off the winning boxes on a $5 Million Multiplier ticket.

He doesn’t plan to quit work but said he would devote more time to his hobby, songwriting. “Now I can focus on writing songs instead of working all day,” said Shaffer, a podiatrist for 31 years. “Looks like 2013 is going to be my year.”

Source:  Matt McNulty and Bill Sanderson, NY Post [2/23/12]