[wind blowowing] [birds c chirping] [dogog whining]] - mymy name is j jared jacob, anand my fatheher is "jerryry" jerome j jacobson. [dramatitic music] - come h here, boy. come here. bailey, come h her. ♪ - i i grew up inin miami, flf. once my momom got divovorcd from him,, uh, hehe cut all t ties. i was s three yearars old whwhen they gogot divorcede. soso this is a a picture o oe asas a baby wiwith my dadd and my m mom's dad.. my mom c called and had d him arreststed fofor back chihild support whenen i was 13,3, and ththat's when n he popped on thehe radar. that's's when i rereally metm fofor the firsrst time. during t the summer,r, i wowould go flyly up to atla and go spepend, yoyou know, three oror four weekeks up t there with h him, kikind of getttting to knonowm a little b bit. i bebelieve he w was livingg withth alison. this is actually a picture of the wedding party whenen my dad anand linda got marrrried. that's my y mom in thehe pice with me e and him. i think k it's one of thehe only pictctures i hae with t the three o of us toge. mymy mom is cacarol cody.. - i was his s third marrrriag. reallyly, i was hihis fourth, out of--i think we counted seven. wait a minute. phyllis, c carol, dadaryl, me..... um, alisison, and lilinda. he's b been marrieied six tim, anand if he wawas married d witt marriagege license d down in mi, it's seveven. - ththe very firirst time i got t the first t text about the e possibilitity of a a documentatary serie, within t two minuteses, i i get a phonone call sayay, "hey, if anybody calls or talks to you "or wants to talk about this thing, don't do it." ♪ obviously i'm not gonna call him and ask permission to do this with you guys. i think this is my way of, um... my way of having maybebe a littlele bit of clclosure. ♪ this is definitely gonna put the nail in the coffin for our relationship. um, and you know what? i'm okay with it. ♪ [dramatic music] ♪ ♪ [i[indistinct t pa announcnce] ♪ - i trtried to, uhuh, kekeep her mououth shut, but t it didn't t work. i knew thahat i had to do sosomething. shshe was gonnnna run with thehe money. ♪ [indistincnct chatter]r] [bababy crying]] ♪ - [laughing] - nono, i didn't threaten to kill her. i i just told d my wife, i says, "we cacan't do thihis in thehe airport."." [laughghs] i meanant we can't't confront r in t the airportrt. i i didn't meaean anythingng r than we cacannot confrfront hr inin the airpoport. ♪ - - turned outut to be a misundnderstandingng. i mean, , but--but y you stilill have to o run it ot to make-e--you know,w, to makake sure, and yoyou know, the longng and shortrt of it , it wasasn't a valilid threat. - righght after ththat, my w wife took h her sisterr to t the bank toto cash the k anand was attatached at ththe , with herer until shehe did the e right thining with thehe . yeah.. - - so after t that airporort, we s started to o focus on d dwt even morore. so we're u up on thesese wire, and rick a and i hearr someththing's happppening with unclele jerry. - a phone e call was i interced between n jacobson and dwdwight bakerer. - the coconversationon was ththat jacobsoson and dwigt were g going to memeet for ththe exchangege of a a winning p piece. that e exchange wawas going to happepen somemewhere in g georgia. - anand they sayay on the ph, "i'l'll be therere in an houo" or an n hour and 1 15 minute, or sometething like e that. we had thahat window.. - ththey didn't t name the pe where they were gonna meet, but they gave hints. - "the usual place?" "you mean along the highway?" "yeah, along the highway." - so we hurried up, we got on the maps, and d we figureded out ththat it was s somewheree alonong 85 near r atlanta. - we hadad a certainin are, but we d didn't knowow. i i mean, we t thought, but we w weren't surure. - - so i got o on the phone wiwith atlantata to tell t , "hey,, this i is what's c coming up" so thehey were cueued up and ready.y. - they m mobilized q quick. they h had to get t there and get t visual, and we h had air supupport... [helicicopter whirirring] survrveillance g group downn in theheir cars. we're lolooking at r rest ar, places on n the side of the r road, everyrywher. it wasas on. - i remembmber lookingng at t this golf r resort north of a atlanta. it's g got to be t this plac. seems s to be abouout halfwa. it's gotot to be. ♪ - at hisis house onene time. uh, chateau u elan, a winery,, betweeeen here andnd there is halfwayay. sometitimes we'd e eat. sosometimes wewe'd just sist in t the car and d trade moneney and gagame pieces.s. yeahah. [chuhuckles] - we actctually hadd an f fbi pilot upup in the aiair anand could acactually see mrmr. jacobsonon handing m mrr someththing in a f folder. - ththere it wasas, and d off they g go. ♪ - - the video o evidence speaksks volumes ofof the illegegal acts that thehey were doioing. itit's pretty y short but t . wewe got you n now. [wind d blowing] - itit was aboutut the end of thehe summer, and d the game i is ending.. we w weren't gononna haveve another g game. we a already have identntified jerrrry. wewe had identntified mr. . br in fair plplay. we had i identified d mr. gl. we had i identifiedd and d videoed mrmr. hoover,, and we h had severalal other. ♪ - all righght, devereaeaux's . he's layaying out the inindictment,, the arrerest warrantnts. we're e gonna takeke this ththrough the e grand juryr, get the trtrue bills,, which isis the indicictment, and d we're gonnnna go out and effefect these a arrests. - in this s case, the e chargs were cononspiracy anand mail fr. if you u use ththe united s states mail in furthererance of a a sche and artififice to defrfrau, thatat's penalizized by u up to 20 yeyears in prir. ♪ - the ininitial stagage wawas the indidictment ofof the firstst eight, so the f first thingng that wasas gonna makake the new, ththat was gononna alert all ththe other wiwinners tha, "h"hey, the gigig is over,r" was the enend of augusust, auaugust 21st.t. - everybodody was spreread acacross the c country, anand so we enended up havavg toto request t the assistatae ofof numerous s offices spspread entirirely acacross the u united statat. yoyou have to o provide those e agents enough i informationon to makake arrests.s. - soso in anticicipation ofof the takededown, we h had preparered a very,, very l lengthy comommunicatio. - soso it's our r whole plan. it's t the backgroround ofof the invesestigation.. i meanan, this comommunicatn was s probably 2020 or 30 pagages long. very, , very specicific, inin-depth, puts youou right thehere. like, eveverything.. ♪ - - we faxed i it, and i'm nonot going to sayay who did i it. i'i'll say i d didn't, bubut there mamay have beeen somemebody i knonow very cloly that d did it that wouldld deny it.. - it d doesn't matatter who iti, but on thehe speed diaial-- whwhich i nevever use speeeed - but t the agentsts sendnding that p plan thought that the s speed dial l on thx saidid "greenvilille fbi" when i in fact it t said "t"the greenviville news." [suspensefeful music]] ♪ - it e ended up bebeing probay the e worst persrson in the e , a news agegency. - now, t this is a b big issue , riright? like, alall the stufuff's ouout there. now you gogot people that mightht be waitining on ags toto come arrerest them and all l this. it's b bad, bad, b bad. rick d dent's big g head was sweatiting bad. devevereaux was s sweating . chriris graham w was losing gt over thahat. - - i rememberer being reaea, rereally angryry about it.. like, you u know, how in thehe world, yoyou kno? how could d this happepen? - you knknow, now itit's, "how do wewe fix it?"" how dodo we keep t them frfrom going w with this s st? after alall this worork, ththis could r really scscrew thingsgs up. [birds chihirping] [keyboboard clackiking] - my namame's john b boyanosk. in 2001, i i was a repeportr for "thehe greenvilllle new" i hahad been thehere about x or s seven monthths, and i wawas the crimime anand courts r reporter, so anythining that, yoyou kno, kind of f bad happenened, you knowow, anythingng that h had anythining-- official-l-looking dococument ththat came acacross the f x would d come to mymy desk. so i came e in on mondnday morn, and there e was a stapapled thg on my chchair, and i i picked it t up, anand i saw fbfbi on it. three pararagraphs in, i'm thinking, "this--this doesn't sound right." this is an open investigation. like, you're talking about surveillance in here, and i'm like-- so at first, like, "oh, it's ththe backgrouound" i'i'm like, "n"no, they'rere" and i starart flippingng throu, and it's's all surveveillance sf and,d, like, babackground i informationo. i'm lilike, "i donon't thinks is supposesed to be gogoing to john n boyanoskii and d 'the greenenville newsw" i i remember i i turned arard mymy chair andnd i go to m my . i'm like,, "dave,e, did you l look at th? like, , where'd ththis come fr" and he's's like, "yeyeah, i kikind of lookoked at it." i'i'm like, "n"no, you didid. dave, i-i--i think w we have an open fbfbi investigigation" he's like,e, "what?" and we s start lookiking at i. hihis eyes kinind of go lilike. i'm m 24 years o old. i'm trtrying to mamake a a name for m myself, and i wawant to writite a sto. i'i'm like, wewe have, you kn, exclusive,e, you know,w, mcdonanald's invesestigation. fbfbi looking g into a a big fraud d case. - so marark devereauaux's first respsponse was,, just jumump in the b bureau ple and slidide down to south c carolina. - eachch office surveieillance sququad has usuaually a cessssna 10 or sometething. if youou were everer in a v volkswagen n bug in t the early ' '70s, it's's like a lalawnmower in the s sky. - i look a at that goioing, "n"no way in h hell i wantnt e part of ththat again. . shit" and dedevereaux bebeing in tht contntrolled-assss environmet with himim and a tidide bottl. thatat's the onlnly way you've gotot to pee. cacan you imagagine that?? i i mean, thatat's an awfufl situtuation to b be in. - literalllly we get in the p plane, fly from j jacksonvilllle to s south carololina that n t to do our r best to enensure tt that, , um, fauxux pas didn'n't cause us signifificant embabarrassmen. - thatat plane sucucked. [keyeyboards clalacking] - i can tetell you at that t point in t time, that newews agency had nono requiremement toto keep it q quiet. wewe did beg, , plead, asasking if ththey would be kind d enough basicalllly to keep p that toto themselveves. - there e was a littttle bit, you u know, "w"what are wewe gonna get for itit?" - - can't say y we bribed d t, but i i will say t that wewe gave themem an opportrtuy to, , uh, be ablble to takee a photogograph, possssibly, fofollowing ththe arrest in connenection withth the invesestigation.. - - their thining was, "if yoyou could jujust give s the exclclusive." - it w was somethihing at leat to s sweeten thehe deal and thank k them for c coverinp the mimistake thatat, uh, special agagent mathewews-- i i mean, i dididn't say t th- may haveve made. - soso i want toto say, now that i i'm saying g it and reremembering g all this, that w was not me e that faxd that f freaking ththing over. [laughs]s] it wasas somebody y else. - - i can promomise you, e evere i use e a fax machchine, i chececk it not o once, nonot twice, but atat least thrhree times. - - if anybodydy ever kneweww closose this wasas just to-- [mimimics explososion] blblowing up, , right? i knowow that thosose subjectso are-e--who may s see this wowou, "damn it,, how didid that notot happen?" and, likike, too babad, right?? didn't.. we werere the goodod guys. it a always workrks better for the e good guys.s. we alwlways find a a way, - the ninight beforere, atattorney geneneral ashcrc, he g gave us thehe go-aheadd to takake the actition. ♪ - - day of thehe takedown, it's's a very eaearly morni, probobably anywhwhere frfrom 5:00 in the m morning. you'u're gettingng up, you're makiking sure everybody's s re. regardleless of w whether youou believe ththe person i is violent t or, yoyou still hahave to be very carareful as to the e tactical a approah any time t that you enengage in thehe arrest ofof an indiviv, because e you're takaking awy their libeberties, and ththey pretty y much know w. - the arrerests were s schedd toto all go dodown at t the same titime so thahat there wouldndn't be convnversation, and d jacksonvilille sent agas to e each locatition so that t somebody t that's familiar with ththe case wiwill be ablele to be thehe to helelp with thehe arrest. - mymy role thatat day asas the superervisor ofof the squadad in thehe command p post was realally kind ofof coorordinating,, and d if there w was problems ouout in the f field, any decisision about h how to h handle it f for the mosost is g gonna come e to me. - - i was in c charge of the arrrrest of b brenda phenenis in indid. - i hahad the takekedown of d dwight bakeker. - my d duty on takakedown day was glororia brown here in n jacksonvilille. - - so i sit i in the fbi'i's e as we cacan hear thehem, "okay, we'e're makingg the moveves now." it soundeded like, youou kn, a mid-d-'90s michahael bay kind of f thing and you'u're hearingng, you , "go,o, go, go!"" - so i i got glombmb, by f far the nasastier, more pototential dananger of anybodydy else, and ththen, you know w with me, it's always a contest no matter what, so, , you know, , i'm gonna at mymy guy beforore anybody y e. my guyuy, glomb, was behihind a fortrtress. a legitimamate, big-g-time, cameras s everywherere, big gates.s. chances s are he's n not goa open t the gate. at t the same titime, i i wanted to o be first.. so we hahad to find d a way to get g glomb to cocome out. ththe thing we came e up with wawas, hehe has to cocome out and get hihis paper. so t that gate o opens up. whwho do you t think walks ot anand gets thehe paper? [dramatic music] the wife, , right? not him. so i'm going, "oh, god. i'm gogonna ram ththis car ththrough the e front gatet" ♪ - i i had got reready, wawas getting g ready to leaveve the housese, and i i see somebobody walkingy ththe kitchen n window. i i look out t the door, and it's's the fbi.. ththey haven't't knocked on the doooor yet. so i i went and d ran upstaia, totold my wifefe. i sasaid, "t"the fbi's o out front."" ♪ so w when they k knocked on the d door, it was aststralaga. - we show w him ththe arrest w warrant. wewe gained acaccess toto the propeperty, and he i is taken ininto custo. - in thehe commandnd post, we kept hearing, "so-and-so's been arrested. so-and-so confessed. "can't finind this pererson. soso-and-so's s arrested.. they'r're denying g everythin" ♪ - and soso rick dentnt went t to atlantaa to get u uncle jerryry, jejerry jacobsbson. - the arrerest of jerrrry was s in the eararly mornig atat his housese, you knowo. knknock, knockck, knock. "fbi, openen up." ♪ - i i remember j jerry inititi, you know,, doing whwhat you wouould expet a formrmer police e officer to, was, y you know, c clam up. you know, he realilized hihis goose wawas cooked,, soso to speak.k. - eventualally he receceivd his jewelrlry, silverer handcuffsfs. - at jerryry jacobson'n's arres, hehe had some e honda sports carar thing that he wawas riding a aroundn that we seseized, and d just cash h in a trashsg in t the truck o of his car. who does t that shit?? who o carries ththat crap arar? rereally? ♪ - my firirst interacaction wiwith jerry j jacobson was atat the federeral courthoe inin atlanta.. i was in a atlanta because e jerry jacocobson was the e head of ththe snak, and i wanted to o personallyy advisese him ofof the chargrges againstst . - sourceces say thatat the fbfbi will announce ththat it has s made arress inin an alleged scheme to defraudud the e mcdonald's's corporatn by riggiging its rececent momonopoly game. now, t the fbi wouould only sy that it has scscheduled a news conference for 2:15 thihis afternoooo, but sources tetell cnn seven ofof the eightht people are in custody. sources say the eighth has been indicted, not arrested yet, ststill being g sought. - i'd lalaid out, "i'm gononna be the e first." i i was the lalast. ththe last onene to get ththei. soso we neededed to d draw glomb b out, and then i camame up with h t i thought t was a greaeat id. - a browarard county s sherf comes toto the gate e and sa, "do you guguys mind coming dowown here "a"and identififying thesese ? "they wewere robbingng a house e anand they wanant you to identntify them."." i saysys, "uh, i d don't care" they d didn't bothther me. hehe said, "itit'll only t te a a couple mininutes." soso i said, " "okay," and d then i wenent outsid, anand of coursrse ththey grabbeded me outsidie and they s says, "you'u're unr arrest foror mail frauaud." i saidid, "mail frfraud? whwhat's that?t?" [laughghs] he says,s, "on the m mcdonald'" i sasaid, "oh, okay." [lauaughs] didn't't have a clclue that they werere onto thihis case. noththing. anand so he dididn't say nothing g else. i says, "c"can i get y you a p of coffee e or somethihing?" mathewews was onee of t the originanal people whwho arresteded me. - - we had somome snippetss of thehe phone calalls jujust to let t him know we had w what we hadad, and d he decideded not toto cooperatete. one of the very fefew. he said,d, "you thinink you'e some ganangster or s somethin" i said, "y"yeah, and y you thk you're d don johnsonon." you knknow, from " "miami vic" and at t the end, hehe was ok. in the froront, he wasas a littttle bit of f an asshol. - i didid. i'm thahat way. i'm vevery friendldly. [chuhuckles] [cofoffee maker r gurgling]] ♪ - it wasn'n't just thehe take. there were a number of people on the i initial indndictment that we charged. on top of f that, i neneeded to hahave agentss goining out to i interview all thesese other wiwinner. - whwhat we didndn't want to hapappen was s somebody w who is a "w"w" to b be sitting g at home and see e this takededown and thenen have twoo or thrhree weeks to t think aboutut it. [c[chuckles] think k about whwhat they'rere gonna saya, or worsese yet, hop p on a planene and, you know,, momove to soututh america.. - - if you've e played thehe r mcdonaldld's monopololy gae and thouought you'd d never wn the totop prize, you u may have b been righ. in washihington, the attotorney genereral andi annonounced eighght people were a arrested for defrauding mcdonald's and its customers... - - my work sasaid to me,, "the f fbi's lookiking for yo" i'm likeke, "what? oh, shitit. this is ththe fbi." my friendsds were, likike, from louisiana-- fromom the swampmp, they g go, " we wanant to hide e you out in the b bayou." i i mean, bubut then thehey were liki, "you canan never conontact ananybody anymymore." it w was like a a tv script. i go, , "oh, hell l no. i i can't do t that." and d finally ththey caught p with m me. ththey finallyly found me e at. ththey were vevery nice toto. they were just s straight to the p point and they g got what ththey wand to hear r from me. ♪ - i decideded i was gogonna e ththe one to g go down thehe stt and ininterview bubuddy fishe. he was a a little susurpris, but realally didn't t try toto tell us a anything other ththan what really hapappened. nice guyuy. ♪ - so thrhrough the c course of the i interview i had wiwith dwight t baker, he i implicated d george chah, his fosterer son, in t the sch, in t the illegalal activity. at thahat point wewe made a a determinatation to reach o out to geororge chanr and tatalk to himm ababout his ininvolvement.. ♪ - i was onon i-20, and my c cell phone e rang. my s secretary c came on thehee and said,, "george, there's two guys in the office here from the fbi who would like to speak to you." "put them on thehe phone." [laughing] who o don't wantnt to talk to the f fbi, you know? so this guy y comes on t the ph, and his name is special agent astralaga, anand he said,d, "mr.r. chandler,r, "we'veve arrested d this morng dwigight and lininda baker "for their involvement in the mcdonald's "monopoly games scam, "and we would li