The firm handled the accounts of the Dittler Brothers, a publisher who was in charge of printing the productions of the Simon Marketing company — the very same agency that printed and distributed the game pieces for McDonald’s $500 million sweepstakes contest known as the McDonald’s Monopoly.Around the same time Jacobson and his wife divorced, the ex-cop became the safekeeper of McDonald’s’ lotto-style game pieces.
They even had Brown record a message on the cousin’s answering machine to keep up appearances and lied to reporters that she found the winning ticket while cleaning out her car.“I had to just tell, you know, outright lies,” Brown said.

Among Jacobson’s more high-profile recruits was Gennaro Colombo, a casino and nightclub owner who claimed to be connected to New York’s Colombo Mafia family.

Jacobson had a chance encounter with the mobster at Atlanta airport, where Colombo mentioned he was on his way to Atlantic City. Jacobson bought more real estate, went on expensive cruises, and had countless luxury automobiles in his garage. Little did Hoover know that the crew was actually a couple of FBI agents, closely listening to his false tale of how he’d recovered the winning game piece.At the end of the month, the FBI conducted an early morning raid at Jerome Jacobson’s residence. "The first time I met Jerry, we looked at each other... the chemistry between us was crazy," she recalled of her 1995 meeting with her soon-to-be husband in the HBO documentary "McMillion$," which details the McDonald's Monopoly scandal from the late 1990s. “I couldn’t even go to the bathroom without someone going with me,” a driver who transported the game pieces said. For Robin Colombo, meeting Gennaro "Jerry" Colombo for the first time was electric. The six-part docuseries is set to premiere on Feb. 3, 2020. The person added that the latest winner of the McDonald’s Monopoly grand prize, Michael Hoover, was a fake winner involved in the fraud.Agent Dent called McDonald’s Spokesperson and “fixer,” Amy Murray, to relay the shocking news.
He stole a whopping $24 million. Having these special seals was the key to his scam’s success. The agency made eight arrests, including Andrew Glomb and another conspirator named Dwight Baker, his wife Linda, and their associates who worked as Jacobson’s recruiters and phony winners. However, DiBella was unable to prevent the Gambino family from chipping away at Colombo rackets, and the Colombos declined in power.On February 25, 1985, nine New York Mafia leaders, including Langella followed by Persico, were indicted for narcotics trafficking, loansharking, gambling, labor racketeering and extortion against construction companies, as part of the Although Persico knew he would never resume active control of the family, he was determined to ensure that his take of the family's illicit gains would continue to flow to his relatives.By 1991, Orena had come to believe Persico was out of touch and causing the family to miss out on lucrative opportunities. The shocking report detailed how a 12-year scheme resulted in the arrest of a former cop who had rigged the fast-food company’s popular game with the help of psychics, strip-club owners, mobsters, drug traffickers, and a family of Mormons. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Gennaro “Jerry” Colombo (7 Feb 1965–22 May 1998), Find a Grave Memorial no. Jerome “Uncle Jerry” Jacobson, the architect of the McMillions grand heist.Customers needed to collect winning game pieces to earn prizes, possibly winning up to $1 million.Gennaro “Jerry” Colombo, who claimed to be a part of Brooklyn’s Colombo crime family, falsely won a Dodge Viper in the Monopoly scam. Gennaro Colombo, who also went by the name Jerry, seen here in a commercial advertising a win in a McDonalds Monopoly game that investigators say was rigged. Jacobs, James B.; Friel, Coleen; and Radick, Robert (2001) Capeci, Jerry (April 21, 2011) "Ex-mafia kingpin: G-man helped me beat the system" In 1976, Jerome Jacobson was sworn in to Florida’s Hollywood Police Department but was soon out of the job due to a wrist injury, followed by a neurological disorder that left him unfit to work. Jacobson and his wife Marsha then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he secured a job in corporate security through his wife as a security auditor for an accounting firm.

The Gallo wars were finally over.Following the high-profile media exposure of Joseph Colombo and the murderous excesses of Joe Gallo, the Colombo family entered a period of comparative calm and stability. This was only the beginning.The goal of the McDonald’s Monopoly game was to collect winning game pieces that could be found on McDonald’s packaging. Robbins, Tom. Colombo, who called Jacobson “Uncle Jerry,” joined the scam as one of his fake winners then began helping Jacobson to recruit others. Colombo, who called Jacobson “Uncle Jerry,” joined the scam as one of his fake winners then began helping Jacobson to recruit others. Soon, the temptation to hack the McDonald’s Monopoly system became too hard for him to resist.In 1989, Jacobson stole his first game piece and slipped it to his step-brother, Marvin Braun. The informant told Agent Dent about “Uncle Jerry” and the large cuts he made off selling people the winning game pieces for the contest.

The 41-year-old Colombo was the youngest boss in New York at the time, and the first New York Mafia boss to have been born and raised in the United States. Cri…