At a press conference today held at Oregon Lottery Headquarters, Oregon Lottery Director Mike Wells, announced Cheng C. Saephan of Portland, Ore, as the sole winner of the $1.3 Billion drawing held on Monday, April 29, 2024.
Cheng Charlie Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash emblazoned with the words Iu-Mien USA as he hoisted an oversized check for $1.3 billion above his head. The 46-year-old immigrant’s luck in winning an enormous Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month — a lump sum payment of $422 million after taxes, has changed his life. It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cheng Charlie” Saephan wore a broad smile and a bright blue sash emblazoned with the words Iu-Mien USA as he hoisted an oversized check for $1.3 billion above his head. The 46-year-old immigrant’s luck in winning an enormous Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month a lump sum payment of $422 million after taxes, has changed his life. It also raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China, many of whose members fled from Laos to Thailand and then settled in the U.S. following the Vietnam War.
I am born in Laos, but I am not Laotian, Saephan told a news conference Monday at Oregon Lottery headquarters, where his identity as one of the jackpot’s winners was revealed. I am Iu Mien.

During the Vietnam War, the CIA and U.S. military recruited Iu Mien in neighboring Laos, many of them subsistence farmers, to engage in guerrilla warfare and to provide intelligence and surveillance to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail that the North Vietnamese used to send troops and weapons through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. Cayle Tern, president of the Iu Mien Association of Oregon, arrived in Portland with his family in 1980, when he was 3 years old. He is now running for City Council. His father and uncle assisted American forces in Laos and he was born as his mother fled to a refugee camp in Thailand. Many Iu Mien in the U.S. have similar stories, and Saephan’s Powerball win sheds light on the new lives they have made in Oregon and elsewhere after such trauma, he said. Tern knows all three of the Powerball winners, he said. You know, I think for me it’s more than just about the money. We’ve been here since the late 70s, but very little is known of us, he said while sitting in his uncle’s restaurant in Troutdale, a Portland suburb.

This attention that we’re getting — people are interested in what the community is, who we are, where we came from. That is to me is equally special. Saephan, 46, said he was born in Laos and moved to Thailand in 1987, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1994. He graduated from high school in 1996 and has lived in Portland for 30 years. He worked as a machinist for an aerospace company. He said Monday that he has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week. I will be able to provide for my family and my health, he said, adding that he’d find a good doctor for myself. Saephan, who has two young children, said that as a cancer patient, he wondered, How am I going to have time to spend all of this money? How long will I live?

So I decided to do God's charity work after a long conversation with some ministers of God and prayer sessions, leaving only a few good hearts in the world. Now I do not have much to say about myself. I'm too excited right now. I want you and your family to be as happy as we are today. I have voluntarily decided to donate some of this money and other things as a charity project to increase the happiness of few lucky people around the world every year. I hope these lucky people can use these funds wisely and sensibly. I will make sure that they do what they can to alleviate poverty in their community and try to improve the living standards of other people, such as the less privileged, orphans, and charity organizations in their area. I don't want any credit from anyone, I want those who will benefit from this program to do good things, I come from a family of givers, which is a continuation of how I was raised. I think it is not a mistake to donate to these lucky people because it is a good thing to put a smile on a sad face.

I am very grateful for your interest in my donation offer, as you and I can help the less privileged in our communities. I want to assure you that you will be massively rewarded for what you have decided to do. Although this is the first time we are communicating with each other, I believe that our Father in Heaven directed you to me, when I was praying and seeking help on how to distribute my donation funds to these fortunate individuals, after my research that I was able to generate various contact address information through the computer database by the computer technologist who is assisting my team in this task.

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I would like you to know that after thinking about donating to different individuals worldwide, I also discussed it with some ministers, they all said it was a fantastic idea, so I asked them to get me a list of some people who could help others with my donation and put a smile on the face of the needy. Some information will not be uploaded here for some protective reasons as advised by my lawyer and my team.

My monetary donation may not be much at this time, but my team and I believe it will go a long way in improving the standard of living for so many people, just like my Lottery Jackpot did for me. Click on the (APPLY LINK) and fill out all the required information and return it to me, so that my team can process and release your funds. Please know that my entire team and family are hoping that you will visit us after you receive your donation. I believe that this wonderful opportunity has been given to me by God, and I cannot keep it to myself. This donation will be given to you to strengthen your personal qualities and generously help me achieve my goal of providing resources and monetary items to orphans, the less privileged, and charity homes in your community. Send the requested information promptly so that I can forward it to the Disbursement Committee for clarification and processing of your donation to you. All information here should be kept confidential until you receive your funds, without the involvement of any other beneficiary. Please note that I do not need your information for any other purpose, I need this information because I need to have the correct details of who I am offering my charitable donation to and to establish a better relationship with you. I have chosen you to be a part of this project because I believe that giving to charity is an expression of worship to God. CLICK ON THIS LINK TO APPLY

NOTICE: THIS BLOG WAS CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF MY, CHARITY DONATION PROGRAM. YOU ARE READING THIS BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BENEFIT AND BE A PART OF THIS DONATION PROJECT. I WILL PERSONALLY ADVISE YOU TO KEEP THIS CONFIDENTIAL AND DOT REVEAL THIS WEBSITE TO ANYONE, TO ENABLE US TO PREVENT COMPLICATIONS AND FRAUDULENT ACTS FROM IMPOSTORS. GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU HAVE DECIDED TO JOIN ME IN SUPPORTING THE WORLD, DURING THIS PERIOD OF MALADIES AND ECONOMIC CRISIS.

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Cheng Charlie Saephan