How do you think this winner should be treated?
It was the best of times for Timothy Elliott.
It was the worst of times for Timothy Elliott.
On the one hand, he won $1 million in the Massachusetts lottery. On the other hand, he is a convicted bank robber who appears to have violated the terms of his probation by purchasing the $10 lottery ticket.
Elliot is scheduled to face the music on Dec. 7, when he goes before the judge who will determine whether he should be punished for breaking the rules that barred him from gambling.
This doesn't faze the agency that runs the state's gambling operations. "Winners are winners," Dan Rosenfeld, the lottery's communications director, tells The Globe. "We treat them the way winners should be treated."
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