Chicago Heights Pita Pan Employees Sue Over $118 Million Lottery Ticket

Two employees of are suing their coworkers less than two weeks after a group of eleven won the $118 million Mega Millions jackpot.

Jose Franco and Marco Medina were regularly part of a lottery pool with co-workers at the bakery for about a year, with the group collecting money every Monday and Thursday for Mega Millions drawings, according to Chicago Tribune.

On May 1 the group won $9 from a ticket Franco and Medina helped pay for. The two opted to allow the money to be spent on another ticket for the May 4 drawing. This was the ticket that won, according to the lawsuit. Franco and Medina were allegedly excluded from the winnings because they did not contribute additional money for the ticket as their eleven coworkers did.

The duo's attorney Erron Fisher said the two were still involved in the pool because of the money rolled in from a May 1 drawing.

“Our clients got in on the rollover to buy the tickets,” Fisher told the Tribune. “Lo and behold, they pulled the winning ticket but afterward, our clients were told ‘no.’ ”

The suit requested that lottery officials wait to disperse the winnings pending a court ruling on the lawsuit.