Lizzie Pugh, 71, sues the bank after it refused to cash her casino jackpot winnings.
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After winning a casino jackpot but being unable to cash it out at the bank, a woman from Michigan filed a lawsuit.
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According to The Detroit Free Press, the reward was won on April 9 at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
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She delivered the check to a Fifth Third Bank in Livonia, Michigan, two days later.
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where she was shocked to find that staff workers would refuse to return her check because it was "fraudulent," in addition to not cashing it.
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She walked out of the room. "She came back and she told me that the check was counterfeit and she could not give it back to me," Pugh said in a statement to The Detroit Free Press.
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Pugh asserts that when she initially entered the bank, her goals were to open a checking account and make a first deposit of the paycheck she had received.
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