How the 'McMillions' scammers rigged McDonald's Monopoly game and stole $24 million. (via CNBCMakeIt)
he'd sent the winning game piece in the hopes that the good deed might secure him a more lenient sentence should he ever be caught.
In March 2000, the FBI received a tip about William Fisher, a $1 million winner in 1996. Fisher was the father-in-law of the man Jacobson had met in the Atlanta airport. Even though Fisher drove to New Hampshire to claim his prize, federal authorities working with McDonald's easily found that he lived in Jacksonville, Florida.
"This fraud scheme denied McDonald's customers a fair and equal chance of winning," then-U.S. Attorney GeneralThe FBI continued to piece together Jacobson's huge network of accomplices and, eventually,Jacobson, who was 58 years old at the time of his arrest, was later sentenced in 2003 to serve 37 months in prison and pay more than $12.5 million in restitution.
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