Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 3—Joao Alves would like you to believe that he is the world's luckiest man. To explain how he came to deposit $51 million in his bank accounts since 1989, the Congressman, whose annual salary is $84,000, told investigators recently that the answer was simple. He had won 24,000 lotteries.
6/14/94
The New York Times, January 4, 1994:
