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Swindled

Bonus: The Promotion (McDonald's Monopoly)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 β€’ 9.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In a scheme that lasted over a decade, Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson defrauded fast-food giant McDonald's for over $20 million by rigging the promotional Monopoly game. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr.com –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:00.0

Hello. We took a little time off for the holidays, so there will not be a new episode this week.

1:05.0

But I didn't want to leave you empty handed. So here's what we're going to do.

1:10.0

Actually, let me tell you a quick story. On July 28, 2018, the Daily Beast published a fantastic article by Jeff Mesh about a former cop that had erected the McDonald's Immunopoly game to essentially steal millions of dollars.

1:24.0

You know the little game pieces you peel off your franchise? Yeah. Anyway, it's a crazy story and Mr. Mesh's article went viral.

1:32.0

So naturally, the television networks and movie studios came calling. And a year and a half later, there's an HBO docu series about the case coming out soon, as well as a binaflex, Matt Damon movie in the works.

1:44.0

But before the McDonald's Immunopoly fraud case was a Daily Beast article, or a documentary, or a movie, or any of those things.

1:52.0

It was a swindled bonus episode entitled The Promotion. In fact, it was the very first bonus episode we ever published on Patreon, and the case is actually one of the inspirations for creating this podcast in the first place.

2:05.0

That episode was originally researched, written, and published by Yours Truly in December 2017. And at the time, there was very little information about the case publicly available, essentially just a few newspaper articles.

2:20.0

But now, with all of the recent exposure, more details previously unreported have surfaced. So what we've decided to do is revisit that bonus episode and re-release it for everybody to hear. So here it is, The Promotion.

2:35.0

Rewritten, re-recorded, remixed, remastered, re-ducks.

2:40.0

But when if you like it, consider supporting the show at patreon.com slash swindled. There are more bonus episodes like this one waiting for you, and a lot more to come. And they're all commercial free.

2:50.0

Join us at patreon.com slash swindled. Or you'll just have to wait for binaflex to make a movie about it. Suit yourself. Enjoy.

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