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Hey, here's a man who looks like
he has something to say.

- Are we all set, Ronnie?
- Well, I bet.

Hey, careful.

Looks like he's got blubber shoes on,
too, today.

A wonderful anonymous donor

mailed a Monopoly Game piece.

And right here in the middle of it

was a little winning ticket
of $1 million.

Somebody won a $1 million
Monopoly Game at McDonald's

and God bless him decided to send that
money to the children at St. Jude.

This is a great day. We at McDonald's
have a game going which

a person won a game piece in Texas
and mailed it to St. Jude's anonymously

and McDonald's worked out a way
to pay the game piece

even though it can't be transferred.

It's a wonderful Christmas story that
someone would give that anonymously,

not want any recognition
for the children of St. Jude.

The McDonald's Monopoly Game
went back to 1987,

and so we didn't know
how long the contest was fixed.

St. Jude's was listed as a winner
which was certainly an anomaly.

We didn't know
if this is part of this conspiracy.

We didn't know how Jerry Jacobson
was involved in this fraud's game

or if he was Uncle Jerry.

At first you think it's an alias name,
but it was at least half of the name.

Hey, help me, Brett, will you?
Oh, this is heavy.

Odds of finding the winning piece
were one in more than 206 million.

Odds of someone giving it away,
heaven only knows.

MCMILLIONS

My name is Marvin Braun.
I live in Miami, Florida.

Jerry Jacobson is my stepbrother.
Yes, he is my stepbrother.

- And did that make you close?
- Yeah.

I mean, we grew up as, I don't think
brother-brothers but we grew up close.

We're only a week apart in age.

His dream in life was always becoming
an FBI agent.

There I was out on my first assignment.

It never worked out.
But it's a funny story.

If you said to me to describe the
story, I would say don't believe it,

but it's true.

Don't believe it. Just weird.
It's just weird how it happened.

He had discussed about the game pieces
one time.

I think it was 1989
and we had discussed

how he would be able to possibly get
the $25,000 game piece

and if we could do something with it,
whatever.

Month later, six weeks later,
I don't remember,

he showed up with the piece
and he says, "Cash it in."

There's an 800 number to call which
I did. And they gave me instructions.

I went to the post office. I registered
it, whatever the words are there,

and everything else, and I sent it in.

I think I was the first person
to turn that ticket in.

He knew I'd keep my mouth shut,
that's the right way of saying it.

He trusted me with it, yeah.

- Did he tell you how he did it?
- No.

No.

So, we were looking into
Simon Marketing's Jerry Jacobson.

Once we got the title III
surveillance listening to phone calls

we had him on the wire
all day all night.

So, we had thought,
"Hey, this may be the main guy."

So then we started focusing more
on trying to figure out who he was.

After really digging into this
Jerome Jacobson background,

we discovered that he had been
a police officer in Hollywood, Florida.

To become a police officer, you have to
be a level-headed individual,

honesty and trustworthiness
is paramount.

Jerry Jacobson was a patrolman.

And he came to me in the parking lot
one morning.

At that time I was investigating
the death of a newborn baby.

We had no leads at all.

And Jerry told me
that he had some psychic friends

that read about the case
and that they were willing to assist.

My reaction was I was grateful
and I did take him up on the offer.

I don't know that there's anything
wrong having psychics as friends.

I thought that was pretty wonderful.

I met Jerry
at the Hollywood Police Department.

We both were on the same squad
and we started about the same time.

And one day he showed up
at my front door

to inform that
my boyfriend was cheating on me.

So, that's how I met Jerry.

We dated off and on.

And there were some good times
and some bad times,

but we got married in Tennessee.

I think it was '81.

And Jerry became
a stepfather to my sons.

What was it that attracted you to him
and made you want to get married?

This big long silence isn't gonna be
in there, is it?

One day he started to shave

and he couldn't reach all the way up
to shave. It was difficult.

And it was getting more difficult
every time he tried to move.

By noon, he couldn't lift his arms,

he couldn't lift his arms, period.

So I took him to the hospital

and they ran the test for
multiple sclerosis and

Guillain-Barr�
and a couple of other things.

And he had the Guillain-Barr�.

He says he's got MS.

But technically, it was Guillain-Barr�.

I took leave from my work
and spent time at the hospital with him

because his mother was gonna put him
in a nursing home.

I gave him 15 minutes a day
to feel sorry for himself

and after that 15 minutes,
we're gonna work.

Because I felt like if we kept working,
we could stay ahead of the paralysis.

So I fed him and gave him showers,

and walked him up and down the hall,
and all of that stuff.

After six or eight months,

he finally turned around before
it got to his respiratory system.

It was getting there
but it didn't quite take over.

And then the next day,
after the next couple of days,

it stabilized and then started
turning around a little bit.

There's always a question why somebody
leaves a law enforcement career early.

Many times, there's a good reason

but there's always a question.
It's not typical.

And in his case we learned that he had

a health condition or an accident
that had him go out on a disability.

He moved to Atlanta because there was
a doctor in Atlanta or a hospital

that dealt with nothing but MS. I think
the MS really threw his life completely

because I think he always wanted to be
in law enforcement,

and having the MS
completely changed his life.

We moved to Atlanta together.

I got a job shortly after
we came here in security.

He started getting better.

And at that point,
he wanted to go back to work.

Simon Marketing offered him a job
working security

for the Monopoly promotions.

We as the FBI

could not and logically would not
march into Simon Marketing

and start asking questions about Jerry
and that process.

Generally when the FBI starts asking
questions people get a little spun up

and wonder really why.

We were working hand in hand
with McDonald's,

just trying to figure out how much
they knew about Simon Marketing.

Surprisingly, McDonald's didn't know
much about the process

that Simon Marketing went through
with their promotional games.

I wasn't familiar with Simon Marketing
at all until this investigation began.

After that meeting with the FBI,
I realized that

I needed to learn a bit more about
Simon Marketing and the promotion.

So I setup a meeting
with Simon Marketing

under the guise of trying to learn how
the security procedures were in place.

We were able to enlist McDonald's
to do these inquiries on our behalf,

but I think also on their behalf, too.

Did you tell them that Jerome Jacobson
was a person of interest?

Yeah. No,
we would have not told McDonald's

because if we're wrong,

we've sullied somebody's reputation
for no good reason.

I don't know how much he was making
at Simon. His wife was working.

I don't know if he needed the money.

When Jerry talked to you, did he say,
"I think I can steal the tickets?"

No, I think he said he has a contact
to get them or something.

I think it was contact. It was not him.
It was not him.

- It was not him.
- Wait, you're saying someone else?

He gave me the idea it was not him
stealing the tickets

that he had a contact
how to get the tickets.

I was on the impression
Jerry was a security for it.

In other words, that another person
was taking the tickets or whatever.

I wasn't sure.
I thought Jerry was security.

When I met with Simon Marketing
we went through the security procedures,

and the procedures
at the printing press

had a very thorough
and comprehensive operation

for ensuring the security and integrity
of our game pieces.

So I was very pleased with what I saw.

McDonald's reports that the facility
there was incredibly secure and that

this idea that things were loose
or they could walk right out of there

was almost impossible,
highly, highly, highly unlikely.

The obvious question was
how this whole process worked,

how were game pieces printed,
distributed.

Simon Marketing had these game pieces
made just north of Atlanta

by a secure printing business.

My name is Jack Sisk.

I was working in security at Dittler
for around 15 years actually.

My name is Perry Pealock
and I was the bindery supervisor.

My name is Doyle Grant
and I was shipping clerk.

My name is Gilben Peeples

and I was the parch clerk
in the maintenance department.

Dittler Brothers Printing was
a very secure printing company,

and that's how we got into
the lottery business.

And to scratch-off games.

And I think that's one of the reasons
that we got the US postage stamp job.

The federal government said,
"Hey, this place is very much secure."

We got that and it went real well.

And it grew from there
three or four years

and McDonald's millions and millions of
dollars to pay to print all this stuff.

I was the director of security for
Dittler Brothers between 1987 and 2000.

And I worked with Jerry
when they were running Monopoly

because Simon and Dittler
are real close.

We had people in Dittler Brothers
24 hours.

The Dittler Brothers facility
was very secure.

They had to go through a guard check
to get into the facility,

you had to sign in
when you got into the facility.

Then you had to go through
another guard to get into the room

where the state lotteries are being
produced along with our game pieces.

When Monopoly was running

it would take everything in the plant
running, it would get so big.

That was our large customer
by a long shot.

You're talking hundreds of millions
of game pieces.

When we did press runs of winners,
we pretty much surrounded the press.

They had alarm systems,
they had cameras,

the gate was opened and it wouldn't
last, an alarm would go off.

We had a big ball
when we had the winners in.

There were two locks.
It's almost like back in the Cold War,

you'd have two people in a missile silo
and it takes two.

Jerry was in there for Simon

to make sure that Dittler Brothers
were doing their jobs.

Jerry would stand behind and look over
their shoulder, get their combination.

Then he would raise holy hell
because we allowed him to do that.

All the game pieces produced by
Dittler Brothers were loaded on trucks.

Security would actually physically
lock the back of the truck.

Once that truck left we normally would
get on an airplane, fly to that city,

and meet the truck the next morning
to unlock it, break the seal,

verify what was loaded.

My name is Brian Litt�ral.
I work security/quality control for

the games that McDonald's usually ran.

We would bring the labels out,
free drinks, free fries.

And the two pieces will assemble
together. The label on top of the cup.

The higher level winners was done by
a different, more secure process.

I would usually get a call saying that

Jerry was gonna be coming in
with an independent auditor.

Dittler Security has to be there,
Simon has to be there,

the auditor has to be there, and the
customer service rep has to be there.

And they all witnessed the winner run.

The auditor will unlock the suitcase,

there was an envelope inside
with signatures across the seal

to make sure that it was still the same
contents as to when it was packaged.

And inside there, there would be
a certain number of seeds.

This is what a seed would look like.

One of which was a high level winner,
the rest were commons

and then I would insert them
in various production lines.

No one knew and no one was supposed
to know where the high level winner was.

So you go into the McDonald's,
you open up the game piece

and maybe you're
an instant million-dollar winner.

I won!

I won!

And so when these game pieces got to
the Simon Marketing Redemption Center

and it goes to the process of
do we have a real winner?

They literally would be opened
by a person with gloves,

it's all being recorded.

And there would always be an error
made in the winning game piece,

saying on one corner there's a little
chip out of the word.

We also write
on the million-dollar winner

a little code on there
with a black light pen, you can't see.

So if you show up with a piece that
doesn't have the code on it

you're gonna get caught real soon.

We were always a little bit overboard

but yeah, we're protecting McDonald's
and that's a major reason they used us.

And of course Jerry was in there
telling them how it needed to be built.

How would you describe Jerry
when you were working with him?

Everybody liked Jerry,
everybody in the office liked Jerry.

Quite a little flashy. We always had
Thanksgiving, everybody sort of

brought in a potluck at Thanksgiving.

And Jerry always brought in ribs,
and his ribs were delicious.

They would just fall off the bone.
Everybody look forward to his ribs but

he didn't seem to be bigheaded at all.

He was always very generous.

If he made ribs for himself he would
make them for the whole office.

Jerry was, is a generous fellow.

We got divorced and even when
he was married again

and I needed something
he would be right there.

There's nothing stingy about him
at all.

After we got divorced it was like,

even though he was the head of security
for Simon,

he still worked under my guidelines
in Dittler Brothers.

I told him if he stole anything,
I'd kill him.

When you got your check,
what was it like?

Exciting, well, I'm not gonna lie,
it was exciting.

I deposited it in, we split it.

Down the road he came to me and
he said that he could do bigger pieces.

I had not cashed in anything but
a $25,000 ticket,

and I didn't want any parts of them.

At that time I was going to New York

every Tuesday morning and coming
home every Wednesday night.

I was buying maternity clothes
in New York for my maternity shop.

So I approached two people who were
manufacturers in New York

that I dealt with for
many, many, many years.

I approached them and they would be
interested in doing a deal with Jerry.

- And who were those two people?
- I'd rather not mention names.

Do you remember anybody
ever calling him Uncle Jerry?

No. I'm pretty...
Maybe his nieces and nephews.

No. I never heard anybody refer to him
as Uncle Jerry.

For a while the question was
"Well, who is Uncle Jerry?

Well, there's a Jerry Jacobson working
at Simon, that must be Uncle Jerry."

But there was always this inference
maybe that

Uncle Jerry was somehow connected to
Italian organized crime

because of the uncle connotation gives
almost like

a Godfather-ish moniker.

Then we found out that there was
another Jerry involved in this named

Jerry Colombo.

People everywhere are winning big.
Play the Monopoly Game at McDonald's,

Jerry Colombo won a Dodge Viper.

And there are two one-million-dollar
prizes left.

My name is Frank Colombo.
I am brother of Jerry Gennaro Colombo.

And I'm Heather Colombo.
And I am Frank Colombo's wife.

I really wanted him to keep the car.

I was a young guy. "Dodge Viper,
pretty damn cool, can I borrow it?"

But it was too small.
I mean, he was a big guy.

But it was funny because
all of my friends were calling me,

"Hey, your brother won the car,
oh my God."

And I'm sitting going laughing,
at the back of my head going,

"Yeah, okay, he won the car, sure."

And it was just amusing,
that people believed it.

It worked.

I'm Robin Colombo, my husband is
Jerry Colombo, Gennaro Colombo.

He was part of the Colombo
crime family.

That commercial
almost cost him his life

because he wasn't supposed to do
commercial.

And what is Jerry thinking to be in an
actual national TV commercial?

Because he's a ham.

He was even gonna be in a movie
with Jackie Chan as a matter of fact.

I said,
"What? You don't even sound right.

You a big ass Sicilian
and a China man in a Western."

I said "Oh my God."

And it was that Shanghai Noon, Night,
whatever it is. It was that.

Ma, come get this dog out of here.

The Sicilian culture, of course,
it's family first no matter what.

But when I met her I didn't want her
to know my last name

because I want her to know me
and not my family.

As a matter of fact
for the first three to four months

I didn't even know his name.

He would go by
a completely different name

and only did I see a bracelet
on his wrist one day

and I questioned him on the name
that said Frank C

when this is entirely different
from the name that he gave me.

Yes. I went by Tony Inadi.

I keep that in the background,

not too many people know
who my family is until now.

Five families run New York's Italian-
American mafia. The names are familiar.

Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese,
and Lucchese, and Colombo.

Police in Brooklyn pulled
a man's body out of the water,

duct taped inside a blue tarp.

Police say someone also tied
a cinder-block to the victim's ankles.

My name is Joe Colombo. I should be
treated the same as anybody else.

Joe Colombo.
Real estate broker, mafia boss,

and one of the biggest conman
in the history of organized crime.

What was your reaction when you learned
the shooting occurred at the Colombos?

I just heard about eight shots

and I didn't think they were shots,
I thought they were firecrackers.

His high profile caused rival
mob bosses to okay his murder.

The man some called
An Underworld Boss.

My brother wasn't the normal...
When you watch The Sopranos

and it's the guys talking all about,

"Hey, forget about it."
Those kind of nonsense.

Forget about it.
Forget about it.

Nah, forget about it.

Forget about it.

That's the movies.
Now did he do things like that?

Absolutely.

But he did it with humor.

More like...
I guess you could figure out,

Marlon Brando and Joe Pesci
and put them together,

you'll probably end up with my brother.

- That's pretty much it.
- That was it.

ONE MONTH LATER

If you got Al Capone and Rodney
Dangerfield and mashed them together,

you got my brother.
I think that's a good analogy.

The first time I met Jerry,
we looked at each other

and it was like...
the chemistry between us

was crazy, like cartoon,
everything like boom, boom.

I was having a long distance
relationship with a federal agent

who was not that fun.

And Jerry was fun.
So, I chose him.

My father was military and strict.
Very strict.

So, yeah, that didn't go over so well,
but I didn't care.

I rebelled.

We were married in Panama City,
Florida.

It wasn't as extravagant as you would
think because I was pregnant.

So, no Catholic wedding.

My brother Jerry had his hands
in a lot of different avenues.

He had some booking things that he was
doing with bookies and what have you.

He was in charge of security
at the Taj Mahal for a few years.

That was the old Trump Taj Mahal.

He would gamble and he would win a lot.

I don't know if that was rigged as
well,

possibly.
Everything is rigged in life.

- Trust nothing anymore.
- Yeah.

He was always looking at a way
to make some good, easy money.

You know we had the little gray M&M
as well, did you know that?

Okay.
I used to smoke a half a joint a night.

I need to relax. I need to put on
something funny, and just let me chill.

Well, when I would wake up
in the middle of the night,

I had to have something sweet.

So, I had Reese's Cups there
in the kitchen, right?

He had to let me know there was
a gray M&M wrapped in aluminum foil

and he told me, "Don't touch it."

The rules say,
if you find gray the impostor M&M's,

the winning deck could be worth
one million dollars.

Show me the money.

And then he says, "You're also gonna
win a Publishers Clearing House"

when they come to your door and knock.

You have won a million dollars
from Publishers Clearing House.

- I can't believe it.
- This is so good.

Real people really win the Publishers
Clearing House Sweepstakes.

They're probably gonna say,
"Oh, bullshit." You know, all that,

but I'm just telling you
what my husband told me.

Jerry wanted something big.
He kept threatening,

"I can go work for my uncles
up in New York."

I'm like, "Well, you know what,
I think it's time."

You can spend too much time with
somebody and you don't play golf...

And the only golf club he had was
about this big and that was, well...

So he went up north and he got with
Uncle Dominic who was a Godfather.

So Uncle Dominic,
was he an actual uncle?

No. They called that out of respect.

He wasn't an actual uncle.

But he loved my husband

because my husband was old school,
full-blooded Sicilian.

He was hooking him up with everything.

My name's Jennifer Etheridge.

Robin Colombo's my mother,
Jerry Colombo is my stepfather.

You couldn't help not to like him

and especially with his career
that he was into.

It was definitely intriguing
at the time.

He would show me duffel bags of money
and whip it out,

"Here you go.
Go buy you something nice."

And then I'd say,
when I was about 15, 16 years old,

that's when Jerry
got into the Monopoly thing

and then that definitely was
a big deal.

He had promised me a million-dollar
ticket whenever I turned 18

because nobody could have the same
last names.

And since my last name was Etheridge

I was gonna be able to win a
million-dollar ticket and I was like,

"Oh, heck yeah, absolutely."

Your brother, how did he introduced
to this whole situation?

With the Monopoly situation.

Uncle Dominic worked for family
members in the New York division

and a mutual friend of his said,

"Hey, I got this guy that's doing this
and this, you might be interested."

And that was Jerome
from Simon Marketing.

He was getting the tickets.

Do you think that Uncle Dominic
had found Jerry Jacobson?

Like that this was something that
Uncle Dominic initiated?

I don't know. Could've been.

I think Jerome possibly started it
on his own in the beginning

and then people got wind of what he was
doing, and then they said,

"Hey, let's see if we can use this
as an avenue to expand it,

and I believe that was brought to
my brother's attention and said,

"This guy's doing this and let's see
if we can expand the horizon."

But then Jerry, my Jerry, received
a phone call that Uncle Dominic died.

How did that happen?

You don't really talk about that.

So anyway, my Jerry and Jerry Jacobson

became partners on the Monopoly thing.

Two Jerrys?

Working any case is like a big puzzle.
You start with a little piece

and you've got to try to vet whether
that is legitimate,

whether it has any merit to it.

The undercover portion with Michael
Hoover went beyond expectations.

We had Michael Hoover
calling AJ Glomb.

We suspected Glomb was a recruiter and

he probably didn't just recruit Hoover.

Is there a connection to Uncle Jerry?

We started looking into him and then
we expanded into other phone lines.

We had coverage on many lines
including Jerry Jacobson, AJ Glomb,

and a number of the winners.

The spider web of...
we didn't know how big this was.

We had this Uncle...
Everything was very general, nebulous.

So inside the wire room people sitting
there, getting ready to listen

and nothing happens, right?

You put all this effort into it
and nothing happens

where you're spending your weekend
doing that.

Unfortunately, in these conversations
on the wire, the winners mostly had

innocuous conversations
that have nothing to do with the crime.

So we start coming up with,

"How do we get past winners to recount
how they allegedly won these pieces?"

And I said, "Look, we can do this.

Why don't we bring all these
past winners to Vegas?"

I just said, "Vegas."
That's all I said.

I don't know why I picked Vegas,
probably because it's the fun thing,

which is the immediate, no.
But I said, "Just hear me out.

Let's do a reunion
of all these past winners.

Let's bring all these people together
and tell us."

Because we didn't know their stories,
tell us how they won these

and what they did with it.
Because McDonald's has big pockets,

they get some all expenses paid trips
to Vegas,

balloons falling,
the confetti and they love that shit.

And the questions were, "Matthews,
where are you gonna do this?"

Embassy Suites. Take the whole floor.
Rope everything off, right?

Just in case stupid shows up and you
have them all lined up in these rims,

and just arrest them all at the same
time, right? Great thing.

No. No way in hell.

No, Doug. Not gonna do that.

How much is that gonna cost us?
We did have some budgets to deal with.

I can't remember what it was.
It was like, "Get him out of here."

I can't believe you said that."

Doug is one of the hardest working
agents I've ever in met my life.

Very creative, he'll do anything, he'll
try anything, and he can talk forever.

He is relentless.

This idea of "hosting" a reunion
of past winners

in Las Vegas seemed so outlandish
upfront and then we realized,

"Wait a minute, if you're not gonna
follow through with it,

you can promise some pretty elaborate
things. Everybody likes to go to Vegas.

So in preparation for that wonderful
conference that we were gonna have,

all-expense paid,
we could contact these winners,

go out and film them
to capture their so-called story

and then you get this trip to Vegas.

Rick was freaked out about it, but
I wasn't. I'm the guy that's just...

I know this is gonna work
because I know it is, right?

It's all shamrock, baby. Shamrock.

I was the direct contact
with the winners

so I could legitimize
all of the information.

It was all recorded,
and it was 17 years ago.

So it was a big tape recorder

that I carried around
in a black McDonald's briefcase.

I even carried it to my friend's
wedding in Jackson Hall

because I had to be able to tape
the calls whenever they came.

It's like I had to flip the tape
and I'd be like,

"Can I put you on hold for a second?"

And then I'd flip the tape
and then put them back on.

Amy would call them up and say,

"Hey, look, we're putting together this
media release

of previous winners.
How they won it, what they did with it,

some of their story that hasn't been
really told.

We'll come to you
or you can come to us.

Wherever we were gonna do it,
whatever hotel that you want."

Nobody said no to that,
most everybody was like,

"Tell me when we're going to Vegas."

Obviously we were not gonna do
a reunion,

but to the winners, we told them
"We're planning this big reunion."

And we started to get them actually
excited to be going to Las Vegas.

That was kind of fundamental that
it was a bit of a ruse.

We didn't make reservations
in Las Vegas,

I think the pitch was we're gonna put
your story up on the big screen

over at dinner
and everybody's gonna clap,

and are you interested in the reunion
of winners, and of course they are.

Locking them into a story on camera
takes a

B-minus case
and makes it an A-plus case.

My name is Doug Astralaga. I'm an FBI
agent and I was the lighting guy

for the Shamrock Production
in the McDonald's case.

So this is a little...
Yeah, I remember this.

Douglas Astralaga was a

relatively young agent,
real enthusiastic, charismatic guy.

When I came out of Quantico,
I wanted to do something exciting.

Originally, I had stuck him with
the admin agent on this Title III,

which is of all the jobs
probably the most thankless.

It really is a brutal job. But
there's a reward process that happens.

In Doug's case,
we let him work on the undercover

with Doug Matthews as
the "lighting guy."

I had no idea what I was doing.

I was using this light meter, pressing
something and going, "It's great."

I still have no idea how to use
one of these.

Excellent. But I do believe we need
more lighting over here.

Really the point was to engage them
in conversations. That had to reconcile

with what they had originally stated
for McDonald's to win the prize.

We recorded these interviews with them

so the FBI could then match
the timeline, match the facts,

what they originally told McDonald's,
what they're telling us on camera,

what the FBI sort of already knew.

So that once we had the evidence
showing that

you didn't win this legitimately,
you've lied to the FBI

and here's the evidence to prove it,
they'd be more willing to cooperate.

Can you explain the difference between
entrapment and what the FBI did?

The FBI was merely... When the FBI
took a film crew to a winner,

that winner had already contacted
Simon Marketing

hence McDonald's
claiming to have been a winner.

They're already saying,
"I did this,

and this is how I obtained
this game piece."

An individual could never claim
that's entrapment because

they did it before the law enforcement
was involved.

Entrapment is to have law enforcement
put the idea into the person's head

and to get him to do something
they otherwise wouldn't have done.

We weren't saying,
"Say this, say this, and say that."

We were saying,
"How? What? Where? Who?"

Those are just opportunities
for him to fill in the blanks

and tell us what he wants to tell us.

- Remember, just keep looking at me.
- Okay.

If you mess up or you feel like you
wanna say it again, we can start again.

I'm not trying to put my hand gestures,
sometimes gets in there.

Why don't we go back to that day
that you won in New Hampshire?

And can you describe the day for us?

What you were doing in the morning
and at work, and then...

It was a summer day.

No, I wasn't working.
It was Sunday, as a matter of fact.

And
there wasn't a whole lot of work to do,

so, just browsing through
the Sunday paper as I am one to do.

He was fumbling through
and trying to figure out

how he won that particular piece.

In reality, a life experience like that
is drilled into your memory forever.

Nobody wins a million dollar
on a regular basis.

I found the insert

and I found the little tear-off tab

and I got cold, very cold.

He was sweating so bad.

I know at some point
Amy even said to me,

"Every time you ask him a question, I
got to get the towel to dot his head."

It was pouring out because he was lying
about everything.

Well, suffice to say,
I just got cold all over.

And then did you go to the McDonald's
to say that you had won or...

No. First, I wasn't so sure about it,

I went to a lawyer.

I did. I brought...
You need to protect yourself.

- Do you remember who that was, Buddy?
- No, I don't.

- Was it a lawyer in Litchfield?
- No, it was...

Over in...

You could zoom in, because we did...

Zooming in on his forehead
and you could just see the sweat.

- You wanna take a sip of water?
- Yes.

- Go ahead and dot your head too there.
- Yeah.

- I'm paying attention to that a bit.
- I'm leaking.

Yeah, I understand.

I'd say stuff like, "Hey, so nobody
called you up and said,

'Hey, we need you to be a winner and
he'd go, "God, no, I'd never do that,"

and he just pours,
the sweat would pour.

I went to a lawyer, and he advised me
to pr...

At all cost, protect my identity.

It just seemed odd to me that

many of the people I talked to
did not wanna come forward,

and they seem to have knowledge about
what their legal rights were,

about being anonymous or not.

Who is Buddy Fisher?

Buddy Fisher
was the father of Robin Colombo

who was married to Jerry Colombo.

I'll never forget it, I was upstairs
in my bedroom and my father called me.

And there wasn't many words exchanged,
he just said, "I want the big one,"

so I knew what he meant.

He did get one of the million-dollar
tickets and he

had never broken a law
in his entire life.

One stipulation
that my grandfather made, he says,

"Okay, if I get this ticket,
I'm not doing a commercial."

But I remember
we would be getting phone calls

and they would talk to my grandfather
and say

"Hey, we're trying to get all of the
Monopoly winners together

for some kind of reunion
or something like that."

I wanna say it was Vegas.
So he didn't make that trip.

Had your wife or anyone in your family
ever won anything like that before?

No.

- Never?
- Nothing.

- So this was big?
- It was huge.

So you're the luckiest one
in your family, huh?

Yes.

So has any of your kids or grandkids
played Monopoly or tried to win?

Yes, and they still do.
And we still do, yes.

- Have any of them won any cars or...
- No. I think I won a cheeseburger.

Would it surprise you to know that
he actually did an interview

to possibly use at that reunion?

You said he did do one?
I did not know that.

Oh. Okay, yeah, I did not know that.

Okay. Wow.

Is that around?

You know, the greed was crazy here
which is great for us.

One night Jerry and I were out
with our wives to dinner,

and we went to the men's room together.

It sounds horrible,
but we went to the men's room together.

And Jerry gave me
a million-dollar ticket.

And I told him, "I don't wanna be
involved, I really don't."

I did not cash it in, anything but
a $25,000-dollar ticket.

I told him I didn't need the million
dollars, I told him I was out of it,

I said, "Jerry, I don't know
what you did with these guys,

how much you made or anything else.

There's a time and there's a place,
spot, and everything else."

He said, "Well, just do something
with the ticket.

So I took the ticket
and I flushed it down the toilet."

What was his reaction when you flushed
it down the toilet in front of him?

None, zero.

He didn't have any reaction to flushing
a million dollars down the toilet?

I didn't either. How's that?

Yeah. How's that? I didn't either. No.
I knew I was doing the right thing.

And Jerry had told me it was over,
and that was it.

I'm telling you,

the night I flushed that ticket down
the toilet, I thought it was over.

I thought it was over.

I swear to you, and everything holy,
I thought it was over.

If I even suspected
he was taking tickets,

I would've told on him in a heartbeat

and he knew it.
I think that's why I didn't know it.

I bet that's why I didn't get a ticket.

After Jerry got sick with this
Guillain-Barr� syndrome,

there was something different in him.

Even though he was
well on the road to mending,

he could have repercussions later on

being crippled, or bedridden, or dead.

So he had nothing to lose
at that point.

My husband, Jerry, we got a lot
of my family members involved.

And that isn't all.

My family members that won, that was
just a little piece of the pie.

You had Al Capone with the prohibition.

You had Mike Franzese with the gas.

And then now you have this,
the Monopoly.

That's really the highest three
moneymakers of the mob so far.

My husband picked the winners.
He had tickets, he flew everywhere.

I think Uncle Jerry even may have got
all jealous.

Could you spell that out?
Jerry, Jerry, it's kind of...

Uncle Jerry is Jerome Jacobson.

And Jerry is my husband.
Jerry Colombo.

Jacobson became Uncle Jerry
because that's an Italian thing.

My husband gave him that
out of respect.

The general opinion of mankind is
running low this holiday season.

Here's a story that might make you feel
much, much better about the human race.

St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis
received a very unusual gift.

Do you remember who gave that winning
piece away to St. Jude's Hospital?

Yeah.
That's Uncle Jerry.

Hospital officials are calling this
a gift from an angel

in the true spirit of the season.

This is a happy day.

If you're out there and you hear me,
we love you.