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How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In August 22, 2001, Jerome Jacobson, director of security for a subcontracting company called Simon Marketing, was arrested along with eight co-conspirators for orchestrating a massive scheme to defraud McDonald's Monopoly promotion out of more than $24 million. Jeff Maysh of The Daily Beast tells the inside story in 8,800 words. Between 1989 and 2001, "Uncle Jerry" used his position as the head of the McDonald's Monopoly account to steal winning "pieces" worth between $10,000 and $1 million. He proceeded to gift the pieces to family members and a growing network of associates -- which included "mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons" -- in exchange for a cut of the laundered winnings. A former police officer known for his attention to detail, Jacobson was personally responsible for overseeing the printing of paper game pieces, cutting out the winning tickets, and transporting them to McDonald's packaging factories throughout the country. Read the full story here.
Whenever I see such an idiotic post I immediately think 'PopeRatzo'
Saying that he "rigged" the game makes the scheme sound more clever than it was. He simply stole the winning tickets.
"A family of Mormons, not a family of morons."
It's the angel Moroni, not the angel Mormoni...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The scheme resulted in there being more winners than usual, because he assembled the winning pieces for them. And it happened without the apparent winners buying the usual amount of product, so the clown was not only robbed coming, but going as well.
I give a shit, but those are the facts.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You gotta give the Mormons credit. Revising their divinely revealed teachings in response to a US federal government threat.
Most other religions would be afraid their followers would get suspicious.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'