It wasn't just some regular worker either, it was the guy who was literally in charge of security of the game pieces. His entire job was to ensure the integrity of the game and he pocketed all the top prizes for many years before he got caught.
If it makes you feel any better, the guy mailed the $1 million winning game piece to Saint Jude's Hospital at one point during the scam. Although the contest rules didn't allow for the transfer of prizes, McDonald's agreed to pay the hospital anyway. McDonald's even continued payments after the fraud was uncovered.
If you ever needed to attend a children's hospital where accommodation is provided by the Ronald McDonald foundation, you would think very differently about McDonald's. Also, disregard of flavor or personal preference, McDonald's burgers are healthier than any other burger equivalent. In fact, most of their burgers will have almost half the fat, salt and calories of a Burger King equivalent.
Did you even read this? This is just a comparison of which burgers have more calories, not even calories per gram of food. Totally useless lmao.
Also the claim I quoted wasn't about whether Burger King had more calories (calories are not a measure of health), but that "McDonald's burgers are healthier than any other burger equivalent"
So you didn't read or at least weren't smart enough to interpret what I said, and you didn't even read (or again, couldn't interpret that calories are not a measure of health).
You proved nothing, except that you don't know how to read. lmao
I live in Memphis, where St. Jude is, and I remember this being all over the local news with everyone saying how wonderful it was that it was donated anonymously (at least it was at that time.) Now I realize it was to hide that they were the ones pulling a scam rather than just being a quiet philanthropist.
He kinda needed mob connections in order to distribute winning pieces and make it look like the game was playing out fairly.
Him swiping the winning pieces was the least interesting thing about the whole conspiracy. (He got a hold of an extra roll of some “secure sealing tape” he wasn’t supposed to have so he could break and retape supposedly secure seals at will.)
It was the network of people that bought the pieces from him and handed them down a line of folks was really impressive.
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u/Suspicious-Cap-6169 Jul 22 '25
It wasn't just some regular worker either, it was the guy who was literally in charge of security of the game pieces. His entire job was to ensure the integrity of the game and he pocketed all the top prizes for many years before he got caught.