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. - i sasaid, "george, a a friend ofof mine got ththis $1 millllion game e from mcdononald's."ered d to sell itit " he s said, "by t the time i split t it with heher anand pay the e taxes and all ththat?" sasaid, "i'll l sell it for $10000,000." - bebecause he's's going through a a divorce and he d doesn't thihink the tit should be e considereded maritatal propertyty. bubut dwight's's friend, i i didn't knonow this guy fromom adam. you u know, nevever met hi. but t i had alreready gone t h a very b bitter divovorce mys, so i felelt like it was a l legitimate e conce. i mean,, he wasas already s separated. it wasasn't like h he had ths while e he was hapappily marri. - well, bebecause... i didndn't want hihim to know i was ininvolved in n it, you k, inin somethingng that wasnsn- ththat wasn't t real, that h had a tint t of... i knew jererry was s doing something wrong, and it just probably didn't feel like it was the right thing to o do for me to be involved in it, you know, , but yeah, , i didt out of e expediency,y, maybe. and i just tried to protect him from the truth of itit

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. - franklkly, the odddds of y your winning that $ $1 million n jackpot at mcdononald's weren't ththat in zer. - ththey need toto serve time for r that, defifinitely. - many of f the winnerers we from thehe same famimily or were e closely rerelate. - - at the cenenter of the fraraud ring, prososecutors sasay jerorome jacobsoson, assigngned to placace the winnng big cash g game pieceses into circuculation. instead,d, the fbi s says, he stole t them. - passing g winning gagame ps to h his friendsds, who ththen recruitited others to c come forwarard anand claim ththe big priziz. - jacobsonon has been n given a go to o jail cardd for keepeping the wiwinning high-endnd tickets.. - and saysys the fbi t toda- - they h had a confifidential informrmant who titipped them m off at firi. - somemeone who hahad knowlede of t the scheme.e. - mcdodonald's wasas devastatd by t the news, whilile a stunnened spokespepn fofor parker b brothers had only t this reactition. [l[laughter] - we wanant you to h have the opportrtunity to see whoho mr. jacobobs is. he's 58 yeyears old, and he's's married and has s