200: Chris Graham - McDonald’s Monopoly Scam

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Retired agent Chris Graham reviews the investigation of the long-term compromise of McDonald’s Corporation’s promotional games, which utilized wiretaps, undercover operations, and detailed financial analysis. At the time, he was the White Collar Crime and Healthcare Fraud squad supervisor in Jacksonville Field Office. The case, officially known as Operation Final Answer, is the subject of the HBO documentary McMillion$. Chris Graham is prominently featured in the TV series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 200 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the FBI is and what the
0:17.8	FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:27.0	retired agent Chris Graham who served in the FBI for 26 years.
0:34.0	He began his career working complex white-color crime cases,
0:38.5	including public corruption, health care fraud,
0:41.4	telemarketing, and housing fraud. He later managed the
0:45.0	national program for the FBI's intellectual property rights program. In this
0:50.7	episode, Chris reviews the investigation of the long-term compromise of the McDonald's
0:58.1	Corporation's promotional games, which utilized wiretaps, undercover operations, and detailed financial analysis.
1:08.1	At the time of the investigation, Chris was the white-color crime and health care fraud squad supervisor and the Jacksonville Field Office.
1:17.0	The case officially known as Operation Final Answer is the subject of the HBO documentary
1:24.3	Mac Millions. Chris Graham is prominently featured in the TV series.
1:30.3	During his career Chris was also a member of Swat and deployed to the 1993
1:38.0	Branch Davidian Siege in Waco, Texas. In the months following the tragic events of 9-11, Chris deployed to Egypt
1:47.1	and later was chosen to open and run for three years the first FBI office in Milan, Italy. Upon returning to the U.S.
1:56.8	he began to specialize in terrorism cases. His final FBI assignment was as the supervisor of the Joint Terrorism Task Force JTTF in Jacksonville, Florida,
2:10.6	where he returned to manage an active task force of FBI agents, investigators, police officers, and analysts from federal, state, and local agencies.
2:23.0	Currently, Chris Graham is the Vice President for Security at the Mace Rich Company,
2:28.7	an owner-operator of shopping complexes around the country.
2:33.0	Chris has asked to dedicate this episode to Special Agent Melissa Morrow.
2:39.0	You'll learn more about Melissa's ultimate sacrifice during the episode and in the show notes.
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