Queens man claims $5,000-a-week lottery prize as lump sum of over $2 million

A man from Queens, John Frey, has claimed the $5,000-a-week-for-life prize from New York Lottery's Set For Life scratch-off game. He purchased the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Middle Village. Frey chose to take a lump sum of $2,122,378 instead of the weekly payments. There is still one top prize ticket available for purchase in the game. The Set For Life scratch-off costs $10, with odds of winning the top prize at about 1 in 7 million. New York's scratch-off games generated over $4.3 billion in sales in the last fiscal year, contributing nearly $1.2 billion to education funding.