Father and son sentenced to prison for $20M lottery fraud scheme.

Father and son duo, Ali Jaafar and Yousef Jaafar, have been sentenced to prison for running a lottery fraud scheme that involved cashing in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a 10-year period, laundering over $20 million in proceeds, and cheating the IRS out of about $6 million. They purchased winning lottery tickets at a discount from people who wanted to avoid identification by the state lottery commission, claimed the full prize amount, and then claimed equivalent fake gambling losses as an offset to avoid federal income taxes. They were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the IRS, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and filing a false tax return.