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(Her husband, Jerry Colombo, re-christened the strip club he owned the Church of the Fuzzy BunnyвЂ™s and added Bible readings in order to subvert anti-nudity laws.) Then thereвЂ™s Robin Colombo, who married into the infamous Colombo crime family and who offers frank commentary on both the inner workings of the McDonald's scheme and life as mafia bride. (In assembling his phony crew, Matthews decided to be the director-вЂќbecause they donвЂ™t do shit.вЂќ) His pre-McDonald's healthcare fraud beat вЂњbored to death,вЂќ Matthews says in the film, and admitting that he was drawn to the Monopoly case because he thought that itвЂ™s вЂњgot to be more fun than this shit that IвЂ™m looking at.вЂќ Eager to take the caseвЂ™s вЂњfun meterвЂќ even higher, he devised an opportunity to do some undercover work, posing as a filmmaker in order to interview former вЂњwinnersвЂќ on camera. ThereвЂ™s FBI agent Doug Matthews, who worked the case early in his career and fills the seriesвЂ™ early episodes with quotes far more colorful than those generally dropped by cop commentators on true crime series.

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вЂњвЂAre the people telling the story worth putting on film, putting in a documentary? Would this be a feature documentary?вЂ™вЂќД«ut the very first episode makes it clear that the story was full of big personalities. вЂњThe first thought that I had was, вЂObviously, this is a great idea, but how are the characters?вЂ™вЂќ Lazarte says. Making the story gripping-and demonstrating how the years-long heist wasnвЂ™t the victimless crimes it seemed-could be a challenge. The McDonald's Monopoly fraud featured people stealing from a multi-billion dollar brand money that the company already intended to give away. And itвЂ™s not a bloody, shocking crime likely to hook and horrify viewers, like DonвЂ™t F*ck With Cats. ItвЂ™s not based on a crime that dominated newspaper headlines, like Amanda Knox or The Disappearance of Madeline McCann. ThereвЂ™s no celebrity at the heart of this story, as there was in OJ: Made in America or The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

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The Monopoly game fraud is a long-solved case, with little opportunity to pull in armchair sleuths as Serial and The Jinx did. Initially, Lazarte had some understandable doubts. Hernandez also reached out to writer and filmmaker Brian Lazarte, and the two would go onto co-direct McMillions. вЂњSo at that point I knew I had something.вЂќ вЂњWhen I talked to the agents, they all said, вЂThis is one of our favorite cases we ever worked, and no one's ever contacted us about it,вЂ™вЂќ Hernandez says. So the writer, producer, and director put in a Freedom of Information Act request to learn more about the case, and reached out to the prosecutors and FBI agents involved. вЂњAnd I stumbled upon an article or a tagline that was a TIL: вЂToday I learned nobody really won the McDonald's Monopoly game.вЂ™вЂќД«ut save for a local Jacksonville newspaper article, he couldnвЂ™t find much reporting about the case online. вЂњI was laying in bed going through Reddit before I fall asleep, just killing time till I dozed off,вЂќ Hernandez says. (The story later gained wider attention in 2018, after it was the subject of a longform article for The Daily Beast by Jeff Maysh.) Still, he only learned of the little-covered crime via a trivia post on Reddit. вЂњI loved that game as a kid, like most kids who grew up in the 90s,вЂќ says Hernandez, who worked under the golden arches in his first job after turning 16.

It wasnвЂ™t until 2012 that McMillions co-director James Lee Hernandez first heard of the story, despite the fact that he was well-versed in the Monopoly promotion.

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over complicated structures in my opinion, where people stop seeing the forest through the trees so to speak, and lose sight of these important matters.The criminal trial that sprang out of this $24 million crime was, like many other stories ( remember Gary Condit?), understandably overshadowed by the September 11th terrorist attacks. It's unbeleivable such large coorporations still have these kind of issues. (because social factors will have more chance to keep the 3 in normal working order, where only 1 is easily to corrupt without 2 other holding them steady.) If you split these into 3 separate tasks, none of them can do anything.

What if you are the person to take, process and finalize orders at a company? You can take all their money. but probarbly in that case, ou already have millions (perhaps gathered similarly) or no opportunity ever present itself to you in such fashion because your employers take good care to prevent that. you can be very ethical, and say you wouldn't go for those millions. That helps them not to see opportunities to corrupt. This is why you need to split up responsibilities, and in some cases even obfuscate an end-goal to someone in the middle.

it's actually one of the most basic aspects of security. power corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely.

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