If the prize "winners" came ahead with a dollar more than taxes they came out ahead.
He was smart, he took a decent amount of money but didn't risk his banker questioning where millions of dollars in his bank account came from.
He was smart, he took a decent amount of money but didn't risk his banker questioning where millions of dollars in his bank account came from.
Only if you don't count the risk of getting caught (and the lifelong stress that risk may induce even if you don't).
As pleasurable as it is to imagine myself winning huge sums of cash it's also almost a sort of fire drill for in case it ever actually happens.