Ben Affleck set to direct Matt Damon in movie about the McDonald's Monopoly scam
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Over the past week, the world has been enthralled by the saga of Jerome Jacobson, an ex-cop who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game and spent years distributing winning game pieces to friends and strangers as part of a scam that supposedly netted him somewhere around $24 million. To make it even more dramatic,…