Online auction for $1,000-a-month lifetime lottery ticket goes into overtime

An online auction for a lottery ticket that pays $1,000 a month for the rest of a 73-year-old Kalamazoo man’s life went into overtime on Thursday, Jan. 7, ending with a winning bid of more than $40,000. The auction was held on behalf of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to pay off the debts of Donald Magett, a former Kalamazoo police officer and owner of a security firm who bought a Michigan Lottery ticket that pays $1,000-a-month in February, 1984.