OFF BEAT: Bread rises, bakers sue over lost dough

Two Chicago-area bakers are suing their co-workers over a huge amount of bread, but not the edible kind.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court, Jose Franco and Marco Medina, employees at the Chicago Heights-based Pita Pan bakery, claim they were wrongly left out of the $118 million Mega Millions jackpot the group won this month, according to a report.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the group used the $9 million it won in a May 1 Mega Millions drawing to purchase even more tickets for another, larger drawing on May 4. Some of the employees contributed additional money to the purchase.

The group won again, netting $118 million. However, the report says, Messrs. Franco and Medina claim they were excluded from the group because they hadn’t contributed any additional money for the second drawing.

The suit alleges that the two men never were told about the second collection and argues that their contributions to the first lottery purchase helped make the second purchase possible, the Tribune said.

“Our clients got in on the rollover to buy the tickets,” an attorney for the men told the Tribune. “Lo and behold, they pulled the winning ticket but afterward, our clients were told ‘no.’”