The McDonald's monopoly game was rigged for 12 years

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Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

Quite a shock to me as I couldn't remember hearing anything about it despite collecting some of the pieces and fantasizing about how I would spend $1 million

The colorful court case, held in Jacksonville, Florida, started Sept. 10, 2001, the day before terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. The stunned news media quickly forgot about the McDonald’s trial, which explains why so few Americans remember the scandal, or how it ended.
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Oh yeah - that would do it
 
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thanks for wasting the next 15 minutes of my life asshole.

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JFC, closer to 30.
 
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Exterous said:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

Quite a shock to me as I couldn't remember hearing anything about it despite collecting some of the pieces and fantasizing about how I would spend $1 million



Oh yeah - that would do it
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Don't remember anything about it? It was HUGE!

McDonald's tried to make it right with the public by giving like a $1m or $2m prize to a completely random customer when news came out that the company managing the previous promotion had committed fraud.
 
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s0me0nesmind1

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So what was the end result? Class action lawsuit of all 4 billion McDonalds customer and we each received a check for $0.00043 cents?

Yes, I'm too lazy to google it.
 
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Read the entire article - and the one thing that was never touched on as to why this was able to continue for so long is.... What the fuck was the auditor doing that was following the guy? Jesus fuck she should be charged a hefty fine for not doing her due diligence that her job requires.
 
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If they'd only spend those kind of resources stopping the crime in our government or large corporations...always funny the extent they'll go to stop the little guys while the big guys walk.
 
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s0me0nesmind1 said:
Read the entire article - and the one thing that was never touched on as to why this was able to continue for so long is.... What the fuck was the auditor doing that was following the guy? Jesus fuck she should be charged a hefty fine for not doing her due diligence that her job requires.
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He was swapping the pieces out in the mens bathroom at the airport, the one place she couldn't follow him. What did you expect her to do, request the airport temporarily shut down the bathroom so she could go in and hold his cock? Besides, he wasn't supposed to be able to open the envelopes without detection because of the security seals but he was accidentally sent a bunch of them so he was able to put new ones on.
 
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s0me0nesmind1 said:
Read the entire article - and the one thing that was never touched on as to why this was able to continue for so long is.... What the fuck was the auditor doing that was following the guy? Jesus fuck she should be charged a hefty fine for not doing her due diligence that her job requires.
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She only followed him around while he was carrying the tickets to the packaging factories. He was able to easily swap the winning tickets for commons in airport men's rooms, since he had a supply of the envelope seals.

Strange thing... I don't remember these contests or any of the commercials for it. I haven't really watched broadcast TV since the early 80s, but I'm sure I must have eaten at McDonald's occasionally in the 90s.

Even if 9/11 hadn't happened during the court case, I doubt it would have gotten much press. Those things usually hit the news when the arrests are made, not when so-and-so gets a 36 month sentence and a fine.
 
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Carson Dyle said:
She only followed him around while he was carrying the tickets to the packaging factories. He was able to easily swap the winning tickets for commons in airport men's rooms, since he had a supply of the envelope seals.

Strange thing... I don't remember these contests or any of the commercials for it. I haven't really watched broadcast TV since the early 80s, but I'm sure I must have eaten at McDonald's occasionally in the 90s.

Even if 9/11 hadn't happened during the court case, I doubt it would have gotten much press. Those things usually hit the news when the arrests are made, not when so-and-so gets a 36 month sentence and a fine.
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He was swapping the pieces out in the mens bathroom at the airport, the one place she couldn't follow him. What did you expect her to do, request the airport temporarily shut down the bathroom so she could go in and hold his cock? Besides, he wasn't supposed to be able to open the envelopes without detection because of the security seals but he was accidentally sent a bunch of them so he was able to put new ones on.
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Still - the auditor should also generally be suspicious and be analyzing the winners - and putting two and two together. When I think of an auditor I don't think someone whose job it is to just escort someone. They should be... AUDITING.

The auditor should also have been shown what the winning items looked like beforehand - and then make sure they were accounted for when turned in.
 
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If you didn’t already know this and you were literate at the time, what rock were you living under?
 
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What a crazy story. It's shocking to me that one person was entrusted with so much responsibility. It sounds like they tried, at least, to limit exposure to this risk by using security seals, an auditor escort, etc. but the system still broke. I wonder how these promotions are handled nowadays as a result of this case?
 
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That article is impossible to read. I got through 1.5 paragraphs and had to stop. I cannot read like that on a computer screen, what is the TLDR?
 
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momeNt said:
That article is impossible to read. I got through 1.5 paragraphs and had to stop. I cannot read like that on a computer screen, what is the TLDR?
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The ONE guy with sole control over the security of the 'winning' game tickets for McD's monopoly game stole nearly every one over a period of years and sold them to a variety of low-lifes, including friends, family members, and a mafia family.

And the article could have been told better if had been 1/4 the length. A lot of useless crap in it about the perpetrators' wives and cruises and real estate deals. I'm not surprised he sold it as a movie idea, because it reads like a bad movie script.
 
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“Baker recalled that one of the FBI’s top agents, known as the “human lie-detector,” interrogated him, and added that if the FBI had focused on surveilling terrorists and not McDonald’s winners, 9/11 might never have happened.”

Ouch
 
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