McMillions just hit HBO and the documentary told the story of the McDonald’s Monopoly scam that netted one man millions of dollars in prizes. While the incident itself was almost forgotten, since the guilty plea of Jerome “Jerry” Jacobson took place on Sept. 10, 2001, one day before 9/11, the new HBO documentary has people
Michael Hoover found himself in the middle of an FBI investigation as he tried to collect the McDonalds’ Monopoly $1 million prize. It all started when Special Agent Doug Mathews, bored with the constant influx of healthcare fraud cases that came across his desk, asked his boss to let him look into a tip on
Doug Mathews is the FBI Special Agent that got the ball rolling on the investigation into McDonalds’ Monopoly fraud, resulting in the discovery of a huge scheme behind the winners of many of the big prize contests. In McMillions, Mathews said that prior to taking on the investigation into the McDonald’s Monopoly contest, he was