After Donna Miller of Providence, Rhode Island, won $14.7 million in the lottery, she was charged with three counts of welfare fraud and one count of filing a false document. Her caseworker noticed that news accounts about Miller's prize indicated that her husband, Kenneth, was living at home and working as a machinist. The state maintains that Miller fraudulently collected $54,000 in public assistance during the seven years in question by failing to disclose her husband's status. Miller also told the Providence Journal that she spent $20 to $25 a week on lottery tickets for the two years preceding her win.

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