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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.
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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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.'"
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
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'
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.