Single mum Gloria Brown is beaming, but who wouldn’t be when Ronald McDonald is handing you a $1million cheque? At 39, the churchgoer seemed the ideal winner of McDonald’s Monopoly.
But this was a case of Big Mac and lies. A fast food fast fraud, if you like. For Gloria had been sucked into a 12-year scam as a McDonald’s insider – a former cop – siphoned off big- money prizes for family and friends.
She found herself fearing for her life after being recruited by a mobster. And her role is laid bare in new TV series McMillions, telling how more than 50 people duped the burger chain out of $24million.
It first hit the news when a court case opened on September 10, 2001. Just 24 hours later the 9/11 terror attacks would consign the trial to