Dollar & a scheme
DAUGHTER STOLE MY $1M JACKPOT
This was my ticket. (My mother) is not entitled to any of it.
Linza Ford, who wed last week, her Facebook page said.
A “DOLLAR and a dream” has turned into a $1 million legal nightmare — with a Brooklyn woman accusing her daughter of running off with her jackpot.
In papers filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Barbara Quiles says her daughter, Linza Ford, has poached her payout.
“It’s heartbreaking what she’s done,” Quiles, 51, told the Daily News Tuesday night. “God is on my side. God doesn’t like ugly, and this is ugly.”
The mother says she suffers from lupus, bulging discs, spinal stenosis and has had two hip replacement surgeries.
“I’m a retired nurse. I live month-to-month on disability,” Quiles said. “This stress sets off my lupus.”
But Ford, 21, maintains the ticket and the $1 million jackpot are and always were hers. “This was my ticket,” Ford told The News. “She’s not entitled to any of it.”
Ford, who according to her Facebook page was married in a backyard ceremony last week, said she had “no idea” her mom had filed suit.
She claimed her mother is mentally ill, “which is why I left” her home nine months ago. But Quiles denied ever being diagnosed with a mental illness and said Ford left and stole her beloved rat terrier puppy, Daisy, after she told her daughter her boyfriend was no longer welcome in her home.
Quiles’ suit says she became sick after she purchased the winning scratchoff ticket on Nov. 27, 2012, at the Prabhu Grocery Store near her Bensonhurst home.
“I love my kids,” said Quiles. “If I didn’t have so much confidence and faith in her, I wouldn’t have trusted her. She took it all.”
Quiles said Ford was to have the money deposited into her bank account — $50,000 a year over a 20-year term.
The suit, made public on Tuesday, explains Quiles didn’t want her children — including Alexa, 8, and Stephanie, 29 — to have to deal with any legal inheritance hassles if she became gravely ill.
Over the course of the next two years, Quiles said she trusted Ford to open a safety deposit box at Santander Bank on 86th St. in Brooklyn and granted her power of attorney in order to access the box.
Things turned sour last November when Quiles’ bank account was wiped out and she was denied access to the deposit box that contains $50,000 worth of her “sentimental” valuables, including her late husband’s jewelry, the suit says.
Ford said she let her mom withdraw money from the account, but “she started withdrawing everything,” leading her to transfer the account.
Asked if she still plays the lottery, Quiles told The News, “I still pick up a ticket or two, but now I go in with a dream but no dollar.”