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McMillions (stylized as McMillion$) is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, [1] the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices.
McDonald's Monopoly peel-off tokens. The McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game Monopoly. The game first ran in the U.S. in 1987 and has since been used worldwide. The promotion has used other names, such as Monopoly: Pick Your Prize!
McDonald's was required to give away $25 million to random customers in the aftermath of its Monopoly giveaway scandal.
HBO's documentary series "McMillion$" details the Monopoly scandal that afflicted McDonald's in the 1990s. CEO at the time of the scandal Ed Rensi provided an inside look at the fraud.
Both McDonald's and St. Jude's agreed to respect the donor's wishes and not investigate further. The ex-cop who reportedly rigged McDonald's Monopoly game was also behind a mysterious $1 million ...
He developed the true story of the McDonald's Monopoly promotion fraud, which created one of the biggest bidding wars in Hollywood history for a single magazine article, [5] according to the Hollywood Reporter. [6] The project sold to Twentieth Century Fox in August 2018, with Matt Damon attached to star and Ben Affleck attached to direct. [7]
A wild story about criminals who were arrested on charges they had defrauded the McDonald's Monopoly promotion out of more than $24 million is going viral.
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