Robin Colombo, who claimed that her late husband’s parents tipped off the FBI as revenge for her trying to keep her son away from them and the Mafia, got 18 months in jail. The decision paid off, allowing Dent to pin down Andrew Glomb for the first time. “I knew I was onto a great story when one of the convicted winners told me: ‘McDonald’s didn’t want anyone to know the mob was involved,'” reporter Jeff Maysh said in an interview. “It was just the excitement, to have the power,” Glomb said. In all, the operation made away with $24 million. One of the winners included the father of his wife Robin, one of the most memorable characters of McMillions.

As for who tipped off the FBI about the secret scam still remains a mystery. First, Jacobson discovered that Simon had rigged the game so nobody in Canada could win it. received an anonymous phone tip: Someone named “Uncle Jerry” was rigging the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion… Mathews' antics left an impression on Wahlberg. “We hope Americans will see that we were innocent victims along with our customers, and we got scammed by a sophisticated web of crooks.”. “It didn’t take long for us to really see that our (subjects) were incredibly rich and provided so much context and color," he says. Here’s what to know before you watch. Mark Wahlberg, Lady Gaga, Nick Jonas and more celebs have adorable dog Instagrams to follow, 'Age is just a number': Tom Brady wowed by Mark Wahlberg's totally ripped shirtless photo, James Lee Hernandez, who co-directed the docuseries with Brian Lazarte, describes the story as "a massive test of a moral compass in an individual. She helped her husband get a job with one of her clients, Dittler Brothers, which printed the McDonald’s game pieces. Through a chance encounter on a cruise vacation, he met Don Hart, a Georgia man who previously ran a trucking company. In March 2000, according to The Daily Beast, the F.B.I. YouTubeGennaro “Jerry” Colombo, who claimed to be a part of Brooklyn’s Colombo crime family, falsely won a Dodge Viper in the Monopoly scam. Meanwhile, the case is also being made into a major motion picture after Hollywood duo Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won the rights to the film in a lucrative multi-million deal.

This is like a golden fry suit.”. Jerome “Uncle Jerry” Jacobson, the architect of the McMillions grand heist. The contest started in 1987 as the brainchild of Simon Marketing, the company behind the Happy Meal, and was a massive success, boosting McDonald’s sales by 40 percent. John Corbett Basically Pulled a Heist on the. Jerome Jacobson was raking in tens of thousands of dollars per prize. Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate’s $375k spending spree ... Why mortgage deferrals are a ticking time bomb, Reserve Bank indicates Australia’s recession is over, Coronavirus supplement December 31 end to be extended. He, his wife, and their five kids had been collecting McDonald’s Monopoly pieces in hopes of winning some help in paying off the tens of thousands he owed in back taxes.

Jerry’s brother Frank, speaking publicly on the subject for the first time in McMillions, describes him as a combination of “Marlon Brando and Joe Pesci” or “Al Capone and Rodney Dangerfield.”, Soon after the Jerrys met by chance at the Atlanta airport, Jacobson gave Colombo the prize ticket for a new Dodge Viper. “McMillions,” a six-part HBO documentary series premiering Monday, chronicles the scam and its unraveling. All rights reserved. The series is executive produced by Unrealistic Ideas' Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips and written, directed and also executive produced by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte. "Sometimes you have ... the thing where you want to believe something’s true so bad, you’re willfully ignorant to what some of the circumstances around it really are," Hernandez says. Now in his late 70s, he still lives in Georgia. “I couldn’t even go to the bathroom without someone going with me,” a driver who transported the game pieces said. McMillions was nominated for five Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The actions were not without consequences for some of the prize "winners." The contest started in 1987 as the brainchild of Simon Marketing, th… The move was fraught with legal risks — the corporation, in its collaboration with federal investigators, already knew at this point that its game was compromised. After the scandal was revealed, McDonald’s promptly terminated their approximately half a billion dollar contract with Simon Marketing Inc, causing a couple hundred of Jerome’s former co-workers to lose their jobs.

McDonald’s Monopoly was scammed for six years before the perpetrators were caught.Source:AP.

Meanwhile, his co-conspirators were all released on probation and are working to pay back the money through monthly installments to this day. And then you meet the people that actually did this, and you realize they’re humans, just like we are," Hernandez says. In March 2000, according to The Daily Beast, the F.B.I. — that culminated in two FBI agents disguised as a McDonald’s film crew descending on the home of one of Jacobsen’s “winners”. Hopefully this series is better than the movie.

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