AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- A Travis County judge issued a temporary restraining order against the Texas Lottery Commission (TLC) and its acting executive director from spending any of the $83.5 million a Houston woman won in a February Lotto Texas jackpot. None of the jackpot has been paid out because the Texas Rangers are currently investigating the win -- along with an April 2023 jackpot win -- to see if there was any foul play involved.

The judge wrote in the ruling that the Texas woman "will be irreparably harmed if Defendant Sergio Rey, in his official capacity as acting executive director for the Texas Lottery Commission causes the $83,500,000 jackpot prize to be diminished, wasted, or paid to another before the merits of Plaintiff’s claims are fully and finally adjudicated."

The ruling c

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