Daniel Carley, winnings: $3.7 million (£2.9m)
Another lottery winner who has ended up behind bars, Daniel Carley scooped up CA$5 million ($3.7m/£2.9m) on the Ontario Lottery in 2006. The St. Catherines resident spent like crazy, and by 2012, Carley was broke and up to his eyeballs in debt.
Desperate to make ends meet, he turned to drug dealing and in August 2017 was sentenced to two and a half years in the slammer for selling drugs.
lovemoney staff
08 January 2025
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