There Is A Good Reason You Have Never Heard Of This McDonald Monopoly Scam Before

Published on 09/06/2020
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Eager To Learn More About It

The post only showed a small blurb from a Jacksonville newspaper. He wanted to learn more about what happened but could not find a lot of information. In the following year, he took matters into his own hands and started to research some more about it. He even put a Freedom of Information Act with the U.S. Government! It took more than three years, but he finally got the information that he wanted. “I was able to find the prosecutor and agents who worked the case. I reached out to them, reached out to FBI headquarters. The agents said this was one of their favorite cases, but nobody had ever contacted them about this, and they would love to work with me on this,” he recounted.

Eager To Learn More About It

Eager To Learn More About It

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They Got Lucky

Lazarte and Hernandez discussed if they should do a feature film on an amazing story that had yet to be told. Soon enough, it became clear to them that they had a huge story in their hands. It garnered a lot of attention when they started to film it and speak to the “winners,” agents, and federal prosecutor. “It started to grow beyond our expectations, to the point where we found ourselves struggling to see how we could fit this into a 90-minute movie. We started to imagine this as a series,” recounted Lazarte. The fraud thing is already intriguing enough on its own, but the viewers would be bored if the story is not relayed in an interesting way. Luckily, this was not a problem at all for the filmmakers.

They Got Lucky

They Got Lucky

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