That was my takeaway from the documentary on the McDonald's Monopoly scam. The FBI spent incredible resources (and they were proud of having a whole field offic

That was my takeaway from the documentary on the McDonald's Monopoly scam. The FBI spent incredible resources (and they were proud of having a whole field office working on it for months right before 911) to arrest and charge a whole bunch of people who didn't even make any money off it. Then in the end, outside of the core couple guys the harshest sentences were probation, frequently plea bargins, made by people who were themselves borderline victims of the whole scam. I do think the guy doing the ticket swapping should have been stopped, but there were a lot of ways to achieve that, which didn't involve spending tens of millions+ to save McDonalds from giving a couple million away to an insider. Heck just letting mcdonnalds handle the inquiry with their internal security would have been enough to stop it (if all it did was scare the guy from ever trying it again).