CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Representatives of a New Hampshire woman who won a $559.7 million Powerball jackpot and wants to stay anonymous are going to announce her plans for a major donation to nonprofits.
The woman’s lawyers will accept the prize on her behalf at a news conference at state lottery headquarters in Concord on Wednesday. The winning ticket was sold in Merrimack for the drawing on Jan. 6.
The woman will get her money as a legal fight over releasing her identity plays out in court. The New Hampshire Lottery Commission approved the payment to a trust the woman set up.
The lawyers say she signed the back of the ticket following the drawing, the nation’s eighth-largest lottery jackpot, without realizing it would result in her name and address being made public.
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