Money won’t be an issue for these five friends from Yonkers anymore!
A decade of buying lottery tickets together paid off big for the group of pals — who hit the $106-million jackpot on Sept. 11.
It was 52-year-old limo driver Edgar Lopez’s turn to pick up the tickets so he stopped at Yonkers Grocery and Convenience to grab a Mega Millions quick pick.
The following weekend, he got his friends together to share some big news — they were all millionaires.
“I told them that something good has happened,” he said in a statement. “We have worked hard all of our lives and to have this happen is just amazing.”
The winners include Lopez and his buddy Manuel Hernandez, 45, who also works as a limo driver in the city. Hernadez’s wife, 51-year-old Acela, who works as a housekeeper, and business owner Miguel Acosta got in on the winnings as did Angela Pajes, a New Jersey daycare teacher.
They matched all six numbers — 05, 11, 31, 50, 67 and a No. 14 Mega Ball — for the Sept. 11 drawing.
The group opted for a single, lump-sum payout worth roughly $13.1 million each before taxes.
Pajes, the only Jersey resident of the bunch, will take home $8.67 million — about $200,000 more than his friends — thanks to smaller taxes in the Garden State. The other four winners will each get a check for $8.47 million.
