ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - DECEMBER 1: A bird flies over the crowded boardwalk on December 1, 2012 in Atlantic City, NJ. (Photograph by Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images for New York Magazine)
Photo: Benjamin Lowy/Benjamin Lowy/Reportage by Getty Images for New York Magazine
We won’t know all the envy-inducing details until Monday, but New Jersey Lottery officials have announced that the winning ticket for Saturday’s massive Powerball jackpot — the sixth largest in history — was purchased in the Garden State. Even after taxes, the lump sum payment would come out to $221 million, which would buy a lot of spray tans, shore houses, politician bribes, and other Jersey clichés.
