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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 then appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court. While its petition was pending in 2010, Ogborn settled with McDonald's for $1.1 million and abandoned her claim for punitive damages. [34] After the court decisions, McDonald's revised its manager-training program to emphasize awareness of scam phone calls and protection of employees ...
McDonald's Monopoly peel-off tokens. The McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game Monopoly. The game first ran in the U.S. in 1987 and has since been used worldwide. The promotion has used other names, such as Monopoly: Pick Your Prize!
HBO's documentary series "McMillion$" 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.
A recent scam involves a "lifetime pass" for free food at McDonald's, KFC, and other fast-food restaurants.
Sales at restaurants open at least a year jumped 5% globally, including a 5.7 percent increase in the US, for the quarter ending December 31.
McDonald's has been involved in a number of lawsuits and other legal cases in the course of the fast food chain's 70-year history. Many of these have involved trademark issues, most of which involving the "Mc" prefix, but McDonald's has also launched a defamation suit which has been described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history".
A Colorado man has filed the first lawsuit against McDonald’s relating to its E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounders that, so far, has led to at least 49 illnesses across 10 states ...