How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (thedailybeast.com) 102
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.
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Jerome Jacobson Jingleheimer Schmidt,
his name is my name too;
whenever we go out,
people always shout
Jerome Jacobsom Jingleheimer Schmidt
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Whenever I see such an idiotic post I immediately think 'PopeRatzo'
Re:the best people (Score:5, Funny)
A family of Mormons, not a family of morons.
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"A family of Mormons, not a family of morons."
It's the angel Moroni, not the angel Mormoni...
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same thing. pests.
super-applicable captcha: "incest"
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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 i
Re:the best people (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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LDS Mormonism begins teaching about the infallibility of its leadership to children as early as age 3. This is why you have entire generations of Mormons who don't dare question what the leadership says or does. They're taught that to question is tantamount to forfeiting their eternal salvation. It's a fundamental cult tactic.
That is categorically false. Catholicism teaches that the Pope is infallible, but Mormonism teaches that Jesus was the only perfect individual to live on the earth. Joseph Smith History (canonized and part of the Pearl of Great Price) was written by Joseph Smith Jr and clearly states that "I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature; which, I am sorry to say, led me into divers temptations, offensive in the sight of God. In making this con
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Sorry, but I fail to see how my post qualifies as "troll". Couldn't you find the "-1 I don't agree but can't intelligently debate" moderation?
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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.
Firstly, the LDS Church did not revise divinely revealed teachings. Why have a living Prophet and open canon if nothing ever changes;) Regardless, the teachings regarding polygamy did not change. Ever since the Book of Mormon was published and the Church formally established (1830) it was taught that polygamy is an abomination unless required by the Lord. Orson Pratt recorded that Joseph Smith started teaching polygamy in 1831, but the time to practice it had not yet come. In 1835, the Church declared "Ina
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Sure they did. Just because they're new profit (not a spelling mistake) is authorized by their rules to change things doesn't mean he's not changing previously 'revealed truth'.
Right on schedule, their profit gets a new revelation.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb...
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Dumb dumb dumb dumb...
Do you really get your information about Mormonism from South Park???
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Don't be silly, the mob would never want to be associated with Trump.
Actually Trump had a lot of ties with the mob in the 60's and 70's.
Re:Shame he got caught. (Score:5, Informative)
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I don't think you are seeing this clearly. The only clowns here are the customers.
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Of course I did. We went to McDonald's every week-end!
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Well, at least you've still got your Beanie-Babies.
Re:Shame he got caught. (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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Well, at least one person doesn't bother to save the non instant win pieces (me), and I get an average of .25 pieces a year.
So using my direct observation we can prove that side streaming winning sets directly to people has a 100% chance of increasing the odds a winning set will be found.
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serves toxic, chemical-laden
I too prefer my food to consist solely of photons, electrons, neutrons, neutrinos (when you can catch them!) and dark matter. None of these nasty "chemicals"!
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I've heard McDonald's puts huge amounts of dihydrogen monoxide in their drinks.
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heavy use of sodium chloride... in their drinks?
you're kidding, right?
Why is a new article about a 2001 arrest news? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Oh, I see. Let me start my Nintendo Gamecube to put me in the right context.
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Because those are the articles msmash seems to approve. I have no idea why he thinks this belongs on Slashdot.
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Not me. I read it as "even a family of morans".
I don't know why.
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They had a position of trust/authority and it possibly was an advantage or source of insider knowledge. Similar to President or ex-sysadmin.
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Updated Micky D's jingle (Score:2)
He proceeded to gift the pieces to family members and a growing network of associates -- which included "mobsters, ... strip club owners, ..."
Baa daa bop bah bada bing [wikipedia.org] - they're lovin' it.
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If you win a medium to large lottery prize, you can get cash for it, avoid taxes.
'The mob' needs documented income, they love to buy winning tickets (and pay taxes). But be fucking careful. They'd love that winning ticket for free even more.
Rigged? (Score:5, Insightful)
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The two men behind the camera were not from McDonald’s. They were undercover agents from the FBI. This was a McSting.
8800 words is about X too many (Score:2)
Um...the summary repeated this 17-year-old news in a lot fewer words than that. In other words, you suck, Jeff Maysh.
>> In August 22, 2001
Still, this is Slashdot, so you can't expect fully literate editors.
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Wikipedia tells the complete story here [wikipedia.org] in 250 words.
I guess we shouldbn't be surprised.... (Score:2)
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that this meets Slashdot's definition of news.
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Remember when it was news for nerds and stuff that mattered?
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Don't worry they'll bring it into compliance by posting it again tomorrow or next week.
Probably both.
Got greedy (Score:2)
Not condoning the behavior, but if he wouldn't have been so greedy, he may not have got caught. That's what usually catches the blatant thieves and launderers - they get greedy.
"even a family of Mormons" (Score:2)
Mormons are a despicable people, why is this a surprise.
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Just like the Jews amirite?
Oh wait, sweeping generalizations about people on the basis of their religious beliefs is what defines a bigot...
I'm not a fan of Mormonism myself, but like any other group of humans, there are Mormons who are great people and Mormons who are shitty people.
It's almost as though categorizing people upon any basis other than their individual behavior makes you a shitty person.
They practice vigilante justice on rumor alone, facts aren't important nor even an attempt made to verify.
They do this as a whole and can be grouped as one.
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The Mormon mafia is a real thing.
The Mormon church was founded by a grifting scammer, it has _always_ had a core of criminal scammers at the top.
In other words... (Score:2)
They have finally unmasked the hamburglar
One thing is always true.. (Score:1)
Fine with me! (Score:2)
Where Are They Now? (Score:2)
Inquiring Minds Want To Know!
Seriously though, does anyone have any more current info on this little scheme? I certainly haven't heard anything about this before, but I'm old, and may not remember this being news at the time.
Fuck that guy (Score:1)