'McMillions' on HBO featured Michael Hoover in its first episode, a McDonald's Monopoly winner who the FBI filmed as part of their undercover operation.
aims to lift the lid of the fraud case of the early 2000s that saw a criminal ring try to benefit using stolenMonopoly tokens. In the first episode, broadcast on Monday, February 3, viewers met Michael Hoover, whose $1 million win in the fast food promotion raised FBI suspicion, leading to an undercover operation that saw agents pretending to be filming a commercial with the winners of the competition.
However, the trial for the McDonald's fraud case began on September 10, 2001—that is, the day before the 9/11 terror attack, so was not widely covered in the media. As such, not much information exists revealing exactly what happened to Hoover after he recorded that fake commercial. A number of contemporaneous articles do shed some light on what happened. On August 22, 2001, Hoover was one of eight people arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, a charge that is punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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