A Jersey City ironworker has hit the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot twice in the past year.
James Callahan won $613,104 on Nov. 27, 2015 and then another $75,854 on Nov. 7, 2016, state lottery officials said earlier this week.
James Callahan of Jersey City won the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot twice in less than a year.New Jersey Lottery
He bought both lucky tickets at QuickChek on East 53rd Street in Bayonne. Callahan said he doesn’t have any special numbers he plays — he always lets the computer choose his numbers with QuickPick tickets.
The odds of a $1 Jersey Cash 5 ticket matching all the winning numbers are 962.598 to 1.
Callahan told CBS New York he took his fiancee on vacation to Hawaii. He told lottery officials that he and his fiancee will also help her daughter plan a dream wedding.
Callahan recently worked on the Oculus structure which canopies the new World Trade Center transportation hub. He still spends about $40 a day on lottery tickets, he told the television station.
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