Scammed Lottery Winner Gets $5 Million Seven Years Later: 2006 Was Lied By Store Workers That He Really Won $5,000 - They Face Possible Jail Time

Scammed lottery winner gets $5 million almost seven years later after he was lied to about his initial earnings from a convenient store that wanted the winnings for themselves.

While admittingly addicted to crack cocaine, Robert Miles said he was confused about what turned to be a scammed lottery winner. When he went to bring the winning scratch-off ticket for $5 million to The Green Ale Market in Syracuse where, according to Miles' testimony in court, Andy and Nayel Ashkar convinced him the ticket was only worth $5,000.

Their convincing worked, initially. The brothers, sons of the store's owner, paid him $4,000 for it and kept $1,000. Last year, the brothers allegedly tried to claim the winning ticket, which then triggered an investigation by state gaming officials and a criminal trial in Onondaga County.

Andy Ashkar, 35, was working behind the counter at the store that day, was convicted in May of possessing the stolen ticket and received up to 25 years in prison, according to NBC news.

Their father pleaded guilty to filing a false instrument and admitted he lied in a state lottery affidavit. He will be going to trial in September.

Miles is currently working at a Syracuse apartment complex. Lee Park, a New York Lottery spokesman, told NBC News that lottery officials - who had monitored the trial and conducted a security check of their own - on Wednesday completed their verification process and awarded Miles the jackpot, according to NBC News.

"It's a matter of paperwork now," Lee Park, the New York Lottery spokesman, told NBC News.

Miles will receive the money in a few weeks and was reportedly "elated the lottery prize has finally been awarded him," according to his attorney, Steve Gamareri.