‘Overjoyed’: US lottery winner pledges to give part of $328.5m prize to non-profits
Abbas Shafii says he plans to travel, invest and share Powerball prize with non-profits ‘close to [his] heart’
What would you do if you won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the lottery? A 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, gets to answer that question after recently collecting a $328.5m Powerball jackpot drawn on 18 January.
Abbas Shafii issued a statement saying he plans to spend the third-largest such prize in his state’s history traveling, making investments and sharing his “good fortune with non-profit organizations that are close to [his] heart”.
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