US | Powerball Powerball Winner Covers Rent for His Neighborhood Pedro Quezada selling his bodega: report By Matt Cantor Posted Apr 1, 2013 6:45 AM CDT Updated Apr 1, 2013 7:55 AM CDT Copied Pedro Quezada, the winner of the Powerball jackpot, holds up a promotional check during a news conference at the New Jersey Lottery headquarters, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Lawrenceville, NJ. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Pedro Quezada won a $338 million Powerball jackpot—and he's using it to pay his New Jersey neighbors' rent, a friend tells the New York Daily News. "He’s such a good guy," the buddy says. "He said he’s going to pay the rent for everybody here on this block for at least a month or two." Said another neighbor: "God bless him, and thank you." And while a friend says Quezada has now paid the $29,000 in child support he owed, the AP reports the 44-year-old is due to today appear in state Superior Court in Paterson, for an afternoon hearing stemming from a child support warrant he had been issued. Read These Next CBS News boss pulls 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump policy. Camera records 'dirty eruption' at Yellowstone National Park. The new US squeeze on Venezuela may be a disaster for Cuba. Slate examines the 'spiritual rot' of today's Vegas. Report an error