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Soon, he had a web of "mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, convicts, drug traffickers, and even a family of Mormons" who won almost every prize for 12 years. Uncle Jerry, believing the game was rigged, began handing out winning pieces to family members or distant acquaintances in exchange for a cut of the prizes. In 1995, when the computer randomly chose a factory in Canada to receive the game pieces, executives at Simon Marketing ran the program again until it chose an area in the U.S. Uncle Jerry gave his stepbrother a game piece worth $25,000 in 1989, according to The Daily Beast. He told investigators, "It was my responsibility to keep the integrity of the game and get those winners to the public." Oh, the irony! Apparently he used to inspect workers' shoes to make sure they weren't stealing any of the game pieces. He invented a secret vest, which he used to transport the winning pieces to McDonald's packaging factories across the country. He supervised the printing of the pieces and transported them from production to packaging - literally. The Daily Beast reports that Jerome Jacobson (aka "Uncle Jerry") began stealing game pieces while working for Simon Marketing, the company that produced the pieces. It was all fun and games until a former cop (how lawful!) rigged it. McDonald's introduced its version of Monopoly in 1987, and people began collecting game pieces attached to drink cups, French fry packets, and other packaging, in hopes of winning prizes such as vacations, cars, or up to $1 million dollars. He rigged McDonald's Monopoly for 12 years, defrauding the chain out of more than $24 million dollars. According to The Daily Beast, a man named Jerome Jacobson cheated BIG time. What's the point? No one likes a cheater, especially when money is involved in the game. Games lose their appeal when you're playing with someone who cheats.