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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.
I find myself wondering why this article is considered "news". Is there anything new here? This happened 18 years ago. What am I missing?
Whenever I see such an idiotic post I immediately think 'PopeRatzo'
I don't think you are seeing this clearly. The clown didn't lose a penny, his customers who should have won with the stolen winning pieces did.
serves toxic, chemical-laden
I too prefer my food to consist solely of photons, electrons, neutrons, neutrinos (when you can catch them!) and dark matter. None of these nasty "chemicals"!
He proceeded to gift the pieces to family members and a growing network of associates -- which included "mobsters, ... strip club owners, ..."
Baa daa bop bah bada bing - they're lovin' it.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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.
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>> Jeff Maysh of The Daily Beast tells the inside story in 8,800 words.
Um...the summary repeated this 17-year-old news in a lot fewer words than that. In other words, you suck, Jeff Maysh.
>> In August 22, 2001
Still, this is Slashdot, so you can't expect fully literate editors.
They had a position of trust/authority and it possibly was an advantage or source of insider knowledge. Similar to President or ex-sysadmin.
Not me. I read it as "even a family of morans".
I don't know why.
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"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.'"
Being an ex-cop lent him an extra veneer of integrity that helped to get him promoted as top security person in charge of the promotion. In this position (as an earlier post notes) he stole the winning tickets and took a cut of the winnings. That he got away with it for so long, that the company wouldn't rotate people in that position as a matter of precaution is kind of interesting.
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.'"
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that this meets Slashdot's definition of news.
Well, at least one person doesn't bother to save the non instant win pieces (me), and I get an average of .25 pieces a year.
So using my direct observation we can prove that side streaming winning sets directly to people has a 100% chance of increasing the odds a winning set will be found.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Jerome Jacobson Jingleheimer Schmidt,
his name is my name too;
whenever we go out,
people always shout
Jerome Jacobsom Jingleheimer Schmidt
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Not condoning the behavior, but if he wouldn't have been so greedy, he may not have got caught. That's what usually catches the blatant thieves and launderers - they get greedy.
Mormons are a despicable people, why is this a surprise.
Of course I did. We went to McDonald's every week-end!
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heavy use of sodium chloride... in their drinks?
you're kidding, right?
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They have finally unmasked the hamburglar
same thing. pests.
super-applicable captcha: "incest"
Well, at least you've still got your Beanie-Babies.
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Cops made the best criminels.
same thing. pests.
super-applicable captcha: "incest"
Is it time to invoke No True Scotsman?
Joseph Smith Jr founded The Church of Christ 6 April 1830; he later renamed it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After he was killed his followers broke into splinter groups. The largest group followed Brigham Young to what is now Utah and retained the name The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are more than 150 sects which claim Joseph Smith Jr as their founder. The LDS Church wants to distance itself from the splinter groups (which includes polygamous sects), and thus asks the media to use the term "Mormon" when referring to the LDS Church with HQ in SLC, Utah. In 1890 the LDS Church officially declared it would not sanction new polygamous marriages.
Even when polygamy was practiced, incest was forbidden. In some instances two sisters shared the same husband, but that does not count as incest
When we look at the kinds of crimes that McDonald's perpetrates against like sub-poverty line wages, terrible quality food, and mistreatment of livestock that go into the food process, my hat is off to the ex-cop. Fuck McDonald's! Feel free to label this as troll or flamebait but I am sick of the wealthy and the elite beating people up in the name of crony capitalism. I personally would like to give this ex-cop a high five.
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'
Inquiring Minds Want To Know!
Seriously though, does anyone have any more current info on this little scheme? I certainly haven't heard anything about this before, but I'm old, and may not remember this being news at the time.
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.
Firstly, the LDS Church did not revise divinely revealed teachings. Why have a living Prophet and open canon if nothing ever changes;) Regardless, the teachings regarding polygamy did not change. Ever since the Book of Mormon was published and the Church formally established (1830) it was taught that polygamy is an abomination unless required by the Lord. Orson Pratt recorded that Joseph Smith started teaching polygamy in 1831, but the time to practice it had not yet come. In 1835, the Church declared "Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again. (1835 Edition of D&C 101:4). It was not until 1843 when Joseph Smith Jr received a revelation indicating he should practice polygamy.
Responding to a US federal government threat would have meant stopping polygamy a lot earlier than 1890. The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862 made polygamy illegal. Other acts ( Poland Act of 1874, Edmunds Act of 1882, Endmunds-Tucker Act of 1887) didn't cause the Church to stop practicing polygamy. Even after the Manifesto of 1890 (Official Declaration 1 in the Pearl of Great Price) men continued to cohabit with existing wives. The Second Manifesto (1905) clarified that anyone entering into a new polygamous relationship or even performing such a marriage would be excommunicated.
I was a kid during this racket, a kid who loved the time of year when monopoly came around. I've never been much for McD's food, but I got a huge kick out of peeling the stickers off of cups and fries and whatnot. Of course I never won anything more than a free medium fry, but it makes me sad to think that someone was running this scheme during the years that my adolescent self loved the promotion.
Why? So every McDonald's patron gets a coupon for a free medium fry, the lawyers get $100M, and McD's raises their prices 5% to compensate? Thanks, I'll pass.
Sure they did. Just because they're new profit (not a spelling mistake) is authorized by their rules to change things doesn't mean he's not changing previously 'revealed truth'.
Right on schedule, their profit gets a new revelation.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb...
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Dumb dumb dumb dumb...
Do you really get your information about Mormonism from South Park???
Sorry, but I fail to see how my post qualifies as "troll". Couldn't you find the "-1 I don't agree but can't intelligently debate" moderation?