Ex Cop Steals Millions From McDonalds Monopoly Heres How He Did It Mcmillions Jerry Colombo

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In 1987, McDonald's launched the companies most lucrative and long running marketing promotions…Monopoly. Customers collected Monopoly game pieces attached to McDonald's fries, drinks burgers, etc.2 for a chance to win up to $1 million. (place commercial video here) • Rewind to the 1980s, former police officer Jerry Jacobson was hired by a specialty printing company, where he worked with one of its clients, Simon Marketing, on its $500 million McDonald's account. He went on to be hired by Simon Marketing and was responsible for overseeing the printing of McDonald's game pieces and transporting them from the presses to the packaging factories. • In the 1995 prize drawing, a computer randomly selected a factory in Canada to receive the winning game pieces, executives at Simon Marketing reran the program until it chose an area in the United States, Jacobson said, according to The Daily Beast. • This is when Jacobson says he decided it was time to cash in, considering the game already appeared to be rigged. He devised a plan that involved passing stolen McDonald's game pieces to people for a cut of the winnings. Kicking off nearly a decade of fraud which in the hit McDonalds for 24 million dollars. • Jacobson handed out winning pieces to family members, mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts and drug traffickers. This network won almost every prize for 12 years. • Thanks to an anonymous tip to the FBI in 2000, the scheme began to unravel. The agency launched an investigation called Final Answer, tracking 20,000 phone calls and installing a wiretap on Jacobson's phone. • Culminating into the arrest and conviction of more than 50 people for mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the Monopoly scheme. Jacobson was arrested, sentenced to three years in prison, and forced to pay back $12.5 million in restitution. • Why haven’t you heard of this before? Partly because — the court case began on September 10, 2001, the day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the story was quickly forgotten. • Fast-forward nearly 20 years later, and this story is coming to the big screen. The Daily Beast’s story titles “How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions. Ignited bidding war for the film, which will be based on The Daily Beast's story. Pearl Street Films founded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck came out on top with Fox; Damon will play the lead role while Affleck will take the reigns as the director. No word yet on when the movie will be made or released. • Read the full true-crime story here. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-...

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