For 12 years, every major winner of McDonald's Monopoly was a fraud. The game was rigged by the one man hired to prevent rigging.
> McDonald's Monopoly launched in 1987.
> Peel a game piece off your fries or drink. Match the right properties. Win up to $1 million.
> The promotion was massive. Tens of MILLIONS of game boards distributed in magazines alone.
> McDonald's poured massive marketing behind it.
> By law, McDonald's couldn't run its own contest.
> A third party company called Simon Marketing handled the game pieces.
> The man in charge of security at Simon Marketing was Jerome P. Jacobson.
> Former cop. Everyone called him Uncle Jerry.
> His job was to make sure nobody stole the winning pieces.
> He stole the winning pieces.
> Starting in 1989, Jacobson figured out how to swap the high value game pieces during transit.
> He would duck into an airport bathroom stall, break the tamper proof seal on the case, pocket the winners, and reseal it.
> He got away with it because a supplier accidentally sent him a sheet of the tamper proof seals directly.
> That mistake gave him 12 years.
> At first he gave the pieces to friends and family. His step brother. His nephew. People he trusted.
> Then it grew.
> Jacobson started selling winning pieces to strangers for a cut of the prize.
> His network eventually included mobsters, strip club owners and a members of the Colombo crime family.
> One family connected to Jacobson's network claimed three separate $1 million prizes plus a Dodge Viper.
> Jacobson apparently even anonymously mailed a $1 million winning piece to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
> McDonald's honoured it and paid out the full amount over 20 years.
> The total stolen was over $24 MILLION in cash and prizes across 12 years.
> In 2000, the FBI got an anonymous tip about a man called "Uncle Jerry" rigging the contest.
> They looked at the winner list. Almost every major winner lived within 25 miles of Jacobson's house.
> The FBI convinced McDonald's to run the contest one more time. Wiretapped Jacobson's phone.
> Intercepted the name of the next $1 million winner before he even claimed it.
> Then they posed as a McDonald's film crew and interviewed the fake winner on camera. Let him tell his entire made up story about how he found the piece.
> Three weeks later, Jacobson was arrested in an early morning raid.
> The trial began September 10, 2001. The next day was 9/11.
> One of the biggest corporate fraud cases in fast food history got buried under the biggest news story of the century.
> Over 50 people convicted. Jacobson got 37 months. He was the only one who served more than a year.
> Every time you peeled a game piece off your fries and lost, the fix was already in.
The winning pieces were in Uncle Jerry's pocket before the food hit the tray.
@UpdatesOfZeus Like I said they tryna get all the revenue they can from the viewers cause that lawsuit finna make Lemmy pockets hurt, atp they just need girls to fight and beef for ratings.
Summer has thrown horse shit
Pisses on herself
Doesnt wash her ass(shower/bathe)
Stole somebody’s purse and the things in it
Made an Emett Till joke
The bitch is tashy and nasty and tacky!
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It’s the fact that Lex fighting Scotty for summer is stupid because mind you…SUMMER INSERTED HER SELF IN SCOTTY MFN BUSINESS. Fuck is we talking about on this bitch? #BaddiesAfrica
between this week and next week’s episode ion know how any of yall actually like these 3…please explain because they all hypocritical asf
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Another ONE, thank you! Nobody not seeing Tesehki with her hands. That was a clean knock out. Security had to catch & hold Dolly up. I still can’t believe Dolly, her fans and the audience lied like that. 😂 #BaddiesMidwestReunion#BaddiesMidwest