McDonald’s has been promising to make people all over the world into overnight millionaires with their promotional Monopoly game since it first launched in the US in 1987.
But it turns out that most people were playing a losing game, because it was rigged by one very sneaky but undeniably impressive insider.
Monopolize. To obtain exclusive possession of; keep entirely to oneself.
E.g. Monopoly winnings were monopolized. https://t.co/n4yhgoSpsH https://t.co/j8bFWJ0PNC
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 29, 2018
The Daily Beast has dived into the “super-sized conspiracy” that saw Jerome Jacobson head a network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers to win almost every single prize for 12 years.
He’s the greatest McDonald’s criminal mastermind since the Hamburglar himself.
The FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer’ into the McDonalds Monopoly game to eventually unveil the elaborate criminal underbelly run by the ex-cop and game insider.
Jacobson admitted to stealing about 60 of the rare game pieces that win you the big bucks, totalling over $24 million in prizes.
In this McDonald's Monopoly scandal story, you can really feel the apprehension of the writer as they struggled with the decision to keep this obvious joke.https://t.co/5Qtp8ODaST pic.twitter.com/m94ZqnxgV3
— Seanbaby (@Seanbabydotcom) July 29, 2018
The whole story is a wild ride and honestly perfect for a true-crime sequel to the Ocean’s 8 franchise. Just cast Sandra Bullock as Jacobson and we’re 100% there.