![]() ![]() ![]() That phone call is just the start of the labyrinthine tale told by film-makers James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, in a character-rich story of Italian mobsters, charming cocaine traffickers, repentant Mormons, undercover agents, betrayed wives, mistresses and far-from-happy families. The spree would have continued were it not for a tip-off to the FBI, mentioning three related people, who had won big prizes, all linked to a mysterious figure known as “Uncle Jerry”. The $1m tabs – as well as several for $500,000, and those for at least seven cars ranging from a Dodge Viper to a Mercedes Roadster to a Ford pickup – were being shared out among a circle of family, friends and acquaintances. Not one of the high value “game pieces” made it onto products to be sold to McDonald's customers. When it was first introduced in 1987, the game boosted McDonald’s sales by 40 per cent, even though the chances of winning one of the top prizes was around 250 million to one. There are also “Instant Win” pieces, which in the US had prizes ranging from a free hamburger to $1 million. Find and complete individual sets – Park Lane and Mayfair, for instance, which in America are Park Place and Boardwalk – and you can claim a cash prize. Selected items on the McDonald’s menu include peel-off tabs with the names of the properties you’d find on a Monopoly board. It unearths the full story of how fraudsters managed to scoop every $1 million prize in the promotional Monopoly game run by McDonald’s in America for 12 years.Ĭustomers of the burger giant in the UK will be familiar with the game, which has been postponed here this year because of the coronavirus. ![]() The trauma of the attack pushed the indictments off news pages throughout the US, burying an astonishing case which has now become the compulsive six-part documentary McMillions on Sky Documentaries. On the day before terrorists flew airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001, a remarkable court case began in the city of Jacksonville, Florida. ![]()
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