All language subtitles for McMillions - 01x03 - Episode 3.WEB-XLF.English.C.orig.Addic7ed.com

Whiskey.

Where's Oliver?

Oliver. Come on.

I helped pick the winners.

I gave some tickets
to some friends of mine...

And family members who needed it.

I wanted them happy,
so

I gave them things.

I was gonna get the million dollars,
but I gave them to my father.

And

maybe if certain things never
happened...

This Monopoly thing
would still be on today.

It's true.

MCMILLIONS

With Shamrock Productions
and the "reunion of winners",

I think some of them are legendary,
in terms of what was captured on film.

Like Buddy Fisher and Mr. Hoover.

Gloria Brown was an instant
million-dollar winner.

She had won in South Carolina.

Gloria had said her address was in
the Hilton Head area of South Carolina,

but she was from Jacksonville, Florida.

There was always something that
I was trying to drive out.

I was trying to expand the BS that
they were trying to put out there,

because I know AUSA Devereaux needs
a ground ball, boy needs something easy.

I'm kidding. He's good at his job.

It has been a decade, but I enjoyed it.
First time, yes.

So, when you were in South Carolina,
what kind of work did you do there?

- I was unemployed at that time...
- Oh, you were unemployed?

But I am a social worker.
I just was taking a break from...

...stress.
I'm not doing it anymore, thank God.

- So, you were a social worker here?
- Yeah.

Did you have family up in South
Carolina? Why did you move up there?

No, most of my family's here.
I had a friend, personal friend

and another friend,
a couple of friends there, that...

Basically what I was doing was a lot of
visiting, job searching at that time...

You know, trying to relocate.

One thing that struck me was that

Ms. Brown wasn't as open and friendly
as Mr. Hoover was.

She seemed to be on guard,

whether or not she suspected
something was awry or not.

She just wasn't as forthcoming.

What I'd like you to do, Gloria, is
take us through what a normal day

was for you, in Hilton Head.

We wanna show these are regular
people that are winning this money.

- It's a family place.
- Yes.

Well, in Hilton Head, during that time,
I was living with a friend, of course,

and trying to job hunt. And right now,
I have my own agenda.

I have my patients to care for.

I'm busy.
Today, I'm taking a trip and...

Day to day, I work seven days a week,
basically I'm on call all the time.

So, compared to back then
and to now,

I would say that
McDonald's have made it so that

I can just lie without any stress.

- So, how long did you live there for?
- A little over a year, back and forth.

Many of the winners were saying
they lived in one area,

but then, had a post office box where
they would have their winnings sent to,

so they would set up fake addresses.

A lot of the evidence that I was
gathering was around where they lived,

exactly what store they won
the McDonald's Monopoly piece at.

Doug, anything else we need to get
about South Carolina for the story?

So, I said,

"Gloria, do you remember the McDonald's
where you went to claim the prize?"

"Absolutely. This is a picture."

We took a picture of it
and put it on this board.

Then she said,
"Oh, my God, that's exactly the one."

And I said, "You know what,
can you autograph that for us?"

If you could just write,
"Thanks, McDonald's."

- No, thanks a million.
- Thanks a million.

That's good. Thanks a million.
That's good. And then, sign it.

That picture that she signed, it was
not in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

It was Jacksonville, Florida.

Gloria, do you recall the person that
you spoke to at the counter when you...

No, I sure don't.

The fake address
was a part of the scheme.

Rick had this surveillance photo of a
McDonald's right there in Jacksonville.

And I go, "Oh, my God, that's perfect."

So I take it with me. "What are you
gonna do?" I said, "I'm gonna use it.

Wait and see. I'm gonna show you."

And as she's doing it,
Amy, she's like,

"Oh, my God, that's just...
That's not it."

And I'm looking over,
starting to get louder,

and I'm like, I'm looking back at her,
"Do you want that here?

They're almost... you can hear that."

That's perfect, thank you so much.

Every time I talk to them,
they would just lie, lie, lie.

And it was perfect for the FBI because
it was really building evidence.

But we also wanted to make sure that
it seemed like we were having fun,

because once again, that's how
it would be at a real shoot.

Now, what I want you to do is take us
through... "I got my million dollars

and I took it to this McDonald's
in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

And it made me..." Then stand up real
slowly and point to your star.

Okay.

Doug brought a lot of that energy.

I know it sounds cheesy, but...

It looks good when you cut it together.
Here you are up here.

We loved doing goofy stuff.
We can't help ourselves.

That's typical Mathews.
That's what he would do.

Thanks a million, McDonald's.

Okay. Look right in the camera
and say it right there.

Thanks a million, McDonald's.

And it was hard sometimes to keep
a straight face, to be honest with you.

It was very hard, what we were doing
with the light meter or the camera,

or in sitting them and fixing them up,
we had no idea.

I got my McDonald's millions... million
at Hilton Head in South Carolina.

And it made me a...

millionaire.

That's cute.

- Now, pretty close.
- Pretty close. Okay.

What I figured out in an early age
in the bureau is you push it,

and then, you think it's...
you keep pushing.

You never know when you're gonna hit
a wall. I never found the bottom.

The bottomless was tea glass, right?
It's perfect for me. Just keep going.

And, of course, she did.

Ronald and I was...
Ro...

That's okay. No problem.
Take your time.

Ronald and I will see you in Vegas.
Thank you, McDonald's.

See, she's a pro. She's good.

We knew it was such good evidence,
having Gloria sitting here

just making the story up,
and doing it with this fake sincerity.

As a criminal investigator,
it was an awesome thing to behold.

There were so many different layers of
the conspiracy we were investigating,

and the more sophisticated a scheme,

the more difficult it is
to prosecute the case.

Now you have actual video production
that you can show a jury

that's very powerful.

By this time,

literally almost the whole office now,
or a big majority of them,

have been diverted to work on
what we call Operation Final Answer.

We worked seven days a week
on a regular basis.

But at times,
it did not feel like work.

You had great camaraderie between
all of the agents that were working it,

and we knew the mission is,
what we were trying to accomplish,

was a noble one and a good one.
So, nobody ever complained about it.

Things were moving fast. And naturally,
we always want to move at our pace.

We wanna control the timing of things,

and we did not have that luxury.
The game was running,

the clock was running on how long
we could keep it a secret.

Throughout this, we were really, really
racking up incredible evidence.

Discovering new people, proving all
elements of what was going on.

And we kind of knew the process of
how these were placed,

but the one thing that was still out
there

was
how is Jerry Jacobson doing this?

That was kind of this
nagging question mark.

What we had to vet out here is,
who was helping Jerry?

Hilda Bennett was the CPA
that would travel

with Mr. Jacobson
to these various manufacturing plants

and we didn't know,
are they in cahoots?

On an investigation,
you just don't cut somebody out.

And so,
we had to surveil Ms. Bennett as well.

- You want cheese?
- Yup.

Hi, I need to get a large coffee

with ten cream and five sugar.

- Anything else?
- Yup. Another large coffee...

- With ten cream and five Equal.
- Okay.

- That is Equal?
- Yup.

- Thank you. Have a great day.
- Thank you.

Oh, it's perfect.

The one time I've seen Uncle Jerry
was up in Georgia.

My brother went to go and visit.
I stayed in the car.

I didn't get out of the car because
he didn't directly involve me,

because he was always
trying to protect me.

But giving you a little taste
at the same time.

I guess so. Yeah, yeah.

Uncle Jerry was a middle-aged guy.

Just normal average height,
normal average build. But

size doesn't matter. Like my dad
always used to say and still does say,

as long as this works, that's all I
need. One finger. And it's the truth.

- And the family that's backing you.
- And the family. That's a big thing.

Jerome was getting the tickets.

But when it came to...
dispersing the tickets

I don't think he had the resources

to do the big one-million-dollar hits
everywhere.

I think that's where my brother
took the reins of everything.

So, Uncle Jerry was getting the tickets
and selling them to my brother.

And then, my brother would sell them
to other people.

And it was just, literally,
it was a monopoly of scams.

THE DEAL

Every ticket was a little different.

The agreement with Uncle Jerry was
depending on the value of the ticket.

The million-dollar tickets
were going for 50 grand.

Uncle Jerry would get the 50, and my
brother would get half of whoever won.

And so, if they got the payments for
20 years and so forth, he'd get half,

and then, the winner would get half.

So it was a better deal for my brother,
long-term, than it was for Uncle Jerry.

I really didn't think much of it
because someone had to win.

So, in my brother's eyes, it was,

"Instead of Joe Schmoe winning,
I'm gonna make John Schmoe win."

The money is still gonna go somewhere.
He was just redirecting it.

The one-million-dollar ticket was
supposed to be our wedding gift.

We were married November 24, 1997.

- 1996.
- 1996.

Let's start that over again.
Cut that. Cut that.

Oops. I'm getting my ass kicked
tonight. Okay.

But that was gonna be our gift,
a wedding gift, free of charge.

We didn't have to buy it.

The McDonald's piece was end one of the
little, I guess, you'd call them eggs,

like you kids get toys
in the gumball machines.

It was in there in the back of the
freezer, underneath two ice cube trays.

I remember exactly how it sat.

- It was just chilling.
- It was just chilling.

I always looked up to my brother,
he was my protector, pretty much.

He would always come to visit me and
throw me a couple thousand dollars,

it was me giving away
a couple dollars to the kids.

This is our son Frankie, he dropped
about a 150,000 thousand dollars,

and we just decided to take a picture,
it was kind of funny.

I was so upset over that picture.

Because it was such dirty money
around such a clean perfect baby.

It was pretty crazy,
but with that comes a price.

Put it this way. Uncle Jerry calling
my home at least three times a week,

to tell Jerry what we had to do next.

And he and I will talk sometimes
30 minutes, and most 45 minutes

and my husband would meet him
in Atlanta.

I don't know how many people
he hooked up.

It was way more than I thought it was.

My brother had a lot of connections
all over the place

because he had night clubs
and certain things he was doing

that I can't mention because the FBI's
gonna watch this tape someday.

But there was a lot of things
that he was in to.

So my brother started expanding to

in-laws, and brother-in-laws,
and friends, and friends of friends

and that's how he took this little
small operation, and made it huge.

I was working at the airlines
in Jacksonville here,

and a passenger came
for a name Colombo.

Right off the bat, he was very
personable and a gentleman.

My last name was Italian,
so he seemed to take a liking to me.

First thing he said to me was like,
"Here's some money go eat. Go eat."

And I just thought that was so funny
because that's how Italians are,

and it just made me feel at ease
with him, that this is a good person.

I never knew he was married, I didn't
really care because I didn't really

have any relationship on that level
in my mind, anyways.

One day, we were just driving around,
and he says,

"I wanna show you something."
So we pulled over...

And he reaches around the backseat,
and he pulls out the winning pieces.

It was, like, the whole thing,
it's a hundred thousand dollars.

And I was like, "Wow. So many people
are trying to win this thing

and you're sitting here
with all four pieces."

"If you're interested," he says,
"just walk in McDonald's,

and this is what you got to do,
and this is it how it rolls."

He goes, "I'll give you 20,000 now,
and another 10,000 later."

And I thought,
"Wow, that's a lot of money."

I could go buy me a car,
I could go do some stuff...

Because back then I'm working
at the airlines, what am I making?

10 dollars an hour, and I was game for
something exhilarating.

So, he had me fly to Philly. Being with
the airlines, I could do that.

And he picked me up at the airport,
we drove right to McDonald's

and I didn't have to think for myself.
Just follow the script.

And that's exactly what I did.

And I was just like, "I am the winner."

And he's like, "So you're the winner?"

It was just too easy.

But I didn't know
the aftermath that was to follow.

Because there was things that nobody
knew, and I just kept it all in myself.

My husband, he picked the winners,
but he kept picking Italians

on the East Coast. They were kind of
being stupid about it.

Somebody was bound to get suspicious.
So, I told my husband,

"I've got a friend in Jacksonville.

Bring some women into it,
and women of color."

My name is Gloria Brown-Byer,

and I live in Jacksonville.
I've been here all my life.

I didn't wanna be interviewed anymore.
I don't wanna talk to anybody else

about the McDonald's thing.

Because it was... a whole lot.

I was the McDonald's
million-dollar winner.

And this is the first time that
I had an opportunity

to just say,

"Okay. I'mma lay all my cards
on the table and to tell everything."

Even though my sister was there,
she don't know all the details.

She'll be hearing this for the first
time herself, some of that stuff.

I have a son,
and I raised him as a single parent.

He, as a child, was very understanding.
We had a relationship, where

if money was not available,
I discuss it with him,

and we worked it out together.

I always had to work and I always
managed to keep a job,

but it was always a struggle.

Years passed by, and I didn't see Robin
for some years, and

when she called me,
she told me she had got married.

And thinking maybe now she has
somebody that can look out for her,

and she was very happy
being with Jerry.

I think it was in '97.
Robin had called me and said

she wanted to discuss with me, but we
couldn't talk about it over the phone.

So, Jerry asked me to come and visit.
It was at their home in South Carolina.

My first impression of Jerry Colombo

was that he was a real-life
comedian-type guy and...

He treated me just
like I had been around the whole time.

But the things that bothered me is that
there was never any time that

she and I could be alone,

even when we went shopping,
he went shopping with us.

One night, I just said, "Can you
just leave us alone for a few minutes?

Turn, Jerry."

And then, he left us alone, just for
a few minutes, and he came back.

We were not allowed to really discuss
anything.

Finally, he talked to me
about a proposition,

and it was a proposition
that would help me.

He asked me, "Was I familiar with
the McDonald's game piece?"

And I said, "Yes."

So, he said
people appear to be winners.

This is how it's always been done.
And then,

he told me that he would let me know
what the next step was.

When I first got the offer

I thought to myself,

that it was a blessing
that came knocking at my door.

And I was going to church and I was
trying to do the right thing.

And my son was young.

I was making probably about
$24,000 a year. it was just...

By the time taxes and stuff
come out, there's really nothing.

And I just wanted a better life, and I
just feel like this is my opportunity.

And I say, "Well, this couldn't come
to me if it wasn't meant for me."

My brother was always joking around,
always making people laugh,

very light-hearted.

But if you pissed him off,
then he can have a temper as well.

But he never was the type of person
who would grab you or threaten you,

or rough you up.
You knew, if he looked at you,

when he told you exactly what he wanted
you to do, you knew you had to do it.

The whole relationship changed.

it got to the point that I didn't talk
to Robin anymore.

I only talked to Jerry Colombo.

I finally got the information from him

that I was gonna be
a million-dollar winner,

and that he needed me to come up with
some money. And I'm asking him, "Why?"

Then he said, "Everybody that wins
had to give some upfront money."

And I'm like, "How much?"

And he asked me, how much
could I come up with?

I said, "I really don't have
any money." So, he said,

"So can you get money off
your house?"

Can't back out now,
he's told me too much.

I mortgaged my home

to get my upfront money.

I put all the stuff I worked hard for
on the line,

because I believed
this was my blessing.

I met him on the side of the road

and gave him
my first portion of my money.

It felt like something had just been
ripped from me.

To meet somebody
on the side of the road

and give them cash money

that much at one time...

That's more than I ever had in my hand
at one time in my life.

And I just had to give it all away.

I just felt that I just had given
my life away

and I'm giving it to somebody
I don't know much about.

Can I even trust this guy?

Before my husband was working
the Monopoly fraud game,

we had my son,
Francesco Gennaro Colombo.

Say hi to the camera, Frankie.

Hi, camera.

- Hi, camera.
- Bye, camera.

- Easy.
- Basketball.

- Basketball.
- Yeah, I think he wants...

I was at times really very happy.

I had my son,

I have some money. I should've at least
been having a good time.

But I was never satisfied ever.

I went from home to home, thinking
that one was gonna make it better.

You don't have friends, you can't bring
friends in that lifestyle.

Even though I adored my husband,

I found out he had a mistress
on the side,

which I guess is a prerequisite of an
Italian gangster to have a mistress.

I was walking down the hallway to check
on Frankie, while he was sleeping,

when I heard my husband
on the telephone

saying...
some unsavory words to her.

And I barged in, I said,
"Who the hell are you talking to?"

Then I took the phone from him

and slammed it across his face.

They did get in a lot of fights.

She would say a lot of mean
nasty things to him,

she was very abusive as far as
physical, slapping, and so on.

Robin will just try swinging
and clawing at him.

And he would grab her hands and say,
"Stop. Stop. Stop it."

Anytime I threaten to leave him,
Uncle Jerry would step in...

Send 15 grand, buy me a car,

whatever to appease me.
And...

So I wouldn't leave.

My brother was always making money
and he was never home.

He always had an excuse to go
somewhere, to go on a business trip.

So I knew he wasn't happy.

During the Monopoly situation

my brother wanted to open up a club
in Ladson County, South Carolina.

I believe he was trying to get away
from the life of crime

and he was trying to make
a legitimate business.

So he opened up a place called
the Fuzzy Bunny.

The Fuzzy Bunny opened its doors
just a half hour ago,

opening the doors
to a steamy controversy. Gurnal?

Debbie, we are here at the Fuzzy Bunny
which is located on Highway 78 in Royal

just down the road from
the Fairgrounds in Ladson.

And the entertainment and the dancing
have begun here at the club.

And he had some dancers.
They were wearing bikini tops.

- And pasties and shorts.
- It was not full nudity.

He wanted to do classy places.

- He had his morals.
- Yeah, he had his morals.

I got girls in Daisy Dukes, Tops. I got
volleyball courts being built outside.

I have live concerts here on the
weekends. And that's about it really.

He wanted to make a gentleman's club.

His goal was to open up four,
five of these all through Hilton Head

and North and South Carolina.

The county kept on fighting him,
and fighting him, and fighting him.

They kept on shutting him down
for this permit, that permit.

- That's not gonna stop you from that?
- No. My attorney told me we can...

Whatever we got to do, we're gonna do.

I'm out here trying to earn a living
for my family just like you are.

I was proud of him for actually
doing something legal for once.

And one time he tried to do something
legit.

Some people have already trickled into
the establishment here.

"Coming Soon, Fuzzy Bunnies".

I hate it so much.

And I told my husband, "I know you.
You couldn't just open a club.

You have to try them out."
And I told him to stop.

There's an existing court order
and the club cannot be opened.

Three months later,
I thought he had sold it or whatever.

So no more Fuzzy Bunny.

And then one night,
my son and I went out to dinner.

He was like about two years old.
We're driving down the road

and I passed Fuzzy Bunny. I looked and
there's a bunch of guys and I'm like,

"Damn, there's my car."

I got a little closer and I said,
"There's my big, fat husband."

And I turned around and I jumped up
on the curb, and...

And Jerry, he was sitting back,
a big fat cat on the phone.

And I just punched him
right in the jaw.

I said, "You are so divorced."

All the guys are just staying in there
and just staring.

And I said, "You're going down.
All you motherfuckers are going down.

Every single one of you.
I'm going to the FBI."

I said, "I'm going to Witness
Protection Program."

I said, "So, just watch out."

So I go to a payphone,
I called my parents.

And I said, "Mom,
I need you to take two names down.

She goes,
"What the hell have you done?"

I said, "Well, I just threatened
three goons with the FBI

so if you won't hear from me
a couple days,

you are to contact them
and give them these names."

And Uncle Jerry was on that list.

They meet me home, my husband
and two big-ass goons.

And I said,
"This is what I want.

I want a moving truck here
and a divorce."

He goes, "Robin, you're never leaving
me. There is no divorce.

You're stuck with me."

So I called Uncle Jerry. And he says,
"You married the wrong guy."

And he asked me to marry him.

- Yeah.
- Hold on. Really?

Yeah.

And I told him, "No." And I thought
I'm never gonna get out of this.

So, I stayed. But
I was a prisoner in my own home.

Jerry Colombo told me that I had to
have the South Carolina address.

And he had a cousin
that lived at this particular spot

and this was gonna be my address.

And at that point, I'm like, "Oh, gosh.

This is what I was expecting."

He coached me on some things I needed
to say and work on, and believe.

I had to leave my voice on the
voicemail as if it was my home.

Hi, this is Gloria. Leave a message
and I'll get back with you.

He made me do it until I got it right.

Well, he wanted the right tone,
you know. It had to be happy.

One of the things that constantly
crossed my mind is that

my life was in danger.

I had no other option
but to take this process through.

Robin knew all of my family and my son.

I kind of felt like I was trapped, that
it was no way out but to go through it.

When time to turn the game piece in,
he picked me up.

Two men,
didn't know either one of them.

I almost felt kidnapped in a sense,
you know what I'm saying? It's like,

"You're gonna ride with us
and you're gonna do what we say.

And you're gonna do it right."

All the way there,
Jerry Colombo never stopped talking,

telling me what to do
and what you're gonna say.

He was just drilling me,
and how you're gonna do it.

And he drove me to the McDonald's that
they had picked out I was gonna go to.

He parked the car in the comer.

The ticket was in a little valve
about this tall with a cap on it.

There I was walking down this block
in a place I had never been before.

It was like bank robbery. They on the
block there, they don't wanna be seen.

They down the street, the getaway car.

And I'm like,
"Oh, Lord this could go so bad."

A lot of things
are going through my mind.

Am I gonna lie enough
to be believable?

Am I going to mess up
and then I'm in trouble?

All kind of stuff was... Am I going to
jail today behind this foolishness?

And then at this point in time,
I was about to panic.

And I'm saying to myself,
"Oh, Lord Jesus."

I wanted to cry
before I got into the place,

and I said,
"No, you can't go in there upset."

I had not be Gloria that time.

I had to become somebody else
to make it believable.

Here we go.

And I had to go in
and stand to this counter

and tell them that it looked like
I've been a winner.

The manager came out, said,
"Have a seat."

And I had to give them my information,

the fake telephone number,
the fake address.

And then they finally came out
and congratulated me.

The manager at the McDonald's,
the cashiers,

everybody running around happy they
got the winner come to their McDonald's.

And there I was, I couldn't even
put a smile on my face.

By the time I got back to the car,
Jerry Colombo was having a fit.

Because it took too long.

And there he was,
as soon as I get in the car,

"Okay. What took you so long?"
Then I had explained to him.

"What were you doing all that time?"
"I was sitting and waiting, you know?"

"What did they tell you?" So they told
me they'd be getting back with me.

I hung around another day
and then I came back to Jacksonville.

And went back to work like nothing
had happened, and I just had to wait.

They don't wanna see this club open up.

Now anybody in the Ladson knows that
place has been about 50 years.

It's been a biker club. It's been
a night club. It's been a lounge.

My brother would use loophole
after loophole, after loophole,

and then he finally came up
with one that was saying

you can't have female dancers within a
thousand feet of a school or something.

So, he turned the Fuzzy Bunny
into the Church of Fuzzy Bunny.

The Church of Fuzzy Bunny's...

The transformation of their club
into a church.

Dancing girls, alcoholic drinks
and the Bible?

Low country preacher say
the switch

from Fuzzy Bunny Club to Fuzzy Bunny
Church is nothing but blasphemy.

I really honestly didn't see
the big deal in it.

I swear. And I'm a woman but
I really didn't see the huge deal.

Those two don't mix
as far as I'm concerned,

church and strip joints just don't mix.

They can't fool people. No good people
is gonna be going in that place.

I don't see nothing with having a place
where you can come in,

say a few prayers, have a couple drinks
see some women dancing.

He liked to be the center of attention.

And if you messed with him, he would
just play that game as long as it took.

Mary Anne, you're next on the line
with Jerry Colombo.

- Go ahead, Mary Anne.
- Yes.

I think what this is
an abomination to God.

And it's wrong in the eyes of God. And
really, it's wrong in morals, too.

- All right.
- Thank you.

God hasn't talked to you lately. He came
to me in a dream couple weeks ago

and he told me
what I'm doing is fine.

You say that with somewhat of a smirk
on your face. You had to have...

I did have a dream one night,
that's why.

We all have dreams. I don't know
if it's divine or religion, but...

This one's divine.

- We never wept.
- No.

But it sounded like a fun time, though.

- A little prayer, little pasties.
- Right?

All the publicity that has come out of
this situation with Fuzzy Bunny's

has earned owner Jerry Colombo notice
from The National Inquirer,

Comedy Central, the cable channel,
and this Friday

he has a scheduled guest appearance
for The David Letterman Show.

Do you think that Jerome Jacobson
was angry at your Jerry,

for the attention that
he was getting for it?

Oh, yeah. Yes.

Jerry Colombo won a Dodge Viper.

Jerry Colombo.
Jerry Colombo.

This is my first letter of
congratulation.

They are congratulating me for being
a million-dollar winner

and explaining to me that I'll be
getting $50,000 for

the next 20 years.

The check came in the mail

which they went to my fake address
and Jerry brought it to me.

And I told him the deposits check,
and then he saying,

"You didn't get any cash off of it?"
"No, they got to put a hold on it."

Well, during that time,
my bank account was always though.

I had to go back to the bank
and insist on getting something.

So I got $2,000 and I gave it to him.

When it did clear, he was calling me
to add to the 2,000 and make it 25.

So I just took the money
and gave it to him.

And I didn't say any questions.

He worked out a deal where
what I had he took,

and for the first five years,
I had to give them...

Give Jerry Colombo $25,000.

Nothing changed for me.
Never acted like I have money.

Because I was in a deeper hole
than where I was before I did it.

Took my mortgage up high of course,

and I went from paying $307 a month
to a thousand dollars.

So I was just like... That's when
I found out about the taxes.

Jerry Colombo got $25,000
each time before taxes.

I didn't go out and buy anything.

I couldn't buy anything.
I was so stressed.

Well, Jerry Colombo always got to
consult with the head man,

let me call Uncle Jerry.

Uncle Jerry
is being reported to about everything.

During that time I felt like
Uncle Jerry was the main mob man.

Within that first year, McDonald's
wanted me to do all this publicity,

but I just couldn't get into it.

Jerry Colombo's thing was
they want you to advertise

because you are the first black,
and you're a female.

And you got the million dollars.

And I'm saying to myself, yeah, but...

I don't wanna keep talking to people
and telling the story

over and over
and over and over and over.

But he said, I had to do this.

We stayed in the Four Seasons.

That was the first time I could order
what I wanted from the menu

and not worry about the tab.

When the girl took so long to come out,
I said, "This must be real."

So it's just...
all this is beginning to set in.

I just don't know how to describe it,
it's indescribable.

The best part about it,

the whole thing is that I got a chance
to meet Jeremy.

The marketing company,
they had a big celebration,

it was sort of like a promotion type
thing and Jerry Colombo said,

"Uncle Jerry gonna be in the audience."

And I'm like, "Oh, my God."

So...

They had a big check for me to hold,
take a picture,

and then they say, "Speak."

I'm like, "Oh, here I go, more lies."

I was counting out of it,
I could hear the cameras going.

The whole time I'm thinking about
this mob man in the audience.

Never seeing a picture of him,
didn't know who I was looking for

but I kept looking to see
which one it could be.

After that, I thought I just told them,
"I don't wanna do anything else.

Don't put me out to do anything else."

Jerry Colombo said, "Uncle Jerry was
in the crowd, he said you did great."

It just was little things like that
that made sure I guess

I stayed on my toes and did
what I needed to do into a proper.

So I was still under that web
the whole time.

I didn't know where to turn,
I didn't know what to do,

it was just really no way out of it.

And I said to myself, now,
what's next?

As soon as I got that check
things changed.

I'm in his car
and we're going to this bank.

Went in to get the check cash
right there.

And all the money
went right to Jerry's hands.

And teller said to me, he said,

"Get that money, it's $50,000 taxes
on that, make sure you get that."

But I didn't think anything of it,
you go numb, there's just no thought.

And that's kind of how I felt I think
with that money because it's not mine.

He said he had to go to Uncle Jerry
first, give him his piece of pie, then

everybody gets a piece of pie,
and it has to go in that order

before I can get my money.

So I kept calling him, and calling him,
and he was like,

"Call me back, say I'm gonna get the
money for you, I got the money on me.

It's gonna be like another week or
whatever," he just kept putting me off.

And I heard the difference in his voice
like,

"Don't bug me,
you're gonna get your money."

I believed that Gennaro owed
Uncle Jerry money.

I believe the money got too big

to not take a bigger piece of that pie.

Because the spending habits
became bigger and grander.

And I'm thinking, okay,
that's why I am not getting my money.

I wonder if the local banks,
they'll have the money.

- You know, it's a small town.
- It's a cute town.

It's a great little town.
It's like living in the '60s.

You could ask any number of people
what would drive you

to do what these people did.

The first one I peeled off,
I believe, was Pennsylvania

and the second one I peeled off was
a million-dollar instant prize winner,

and it was like,
wow, is this for real?

A lot of this is stealing money
using a device to do it,

tricking somebody into it. And then two
or more do that, that's a conspiracy.

Deborah is gonna be so happy
I said that.

but it's more than that.

- Breakfast sandwich. I'm...
- Yes, breakfast sandwich.

A lot of them are good people,
they make bad decisions whether it be

they have fallen
into a financial problem,

and they hear a nice way
to get out of it.

That's your motivation, I'm gonna do it
because I need money

for my kid's health or school,
or I'm gonna retire.

Human nature makes us do
different things.

People want to justify what they did
or why they did it

so they can really live
with themselves.

Everyone, everyone watching this show

cannot stand in front of a mirror,

look at themselves in the eyes and say
they've never done something

that they wish
they could correct and take back.

A couple of years later,

I had this company and it was
calling me on a regular basis,

trying to get me to come on this trip.

I was very reluctant but they kept
saying it was for other winners,

they wanna find out where we are now,
what we doing, just a follow-up.

A lot of the stuff I just want to
block out and just forget it.

We just kind of went in
and laughed, and talked.

Try to make me feel comfortable but
I never felt comfortable about this.

Basically what I'd like you to do...

Somebody asked me a question
from this side...

Then from the other side. That's when
I knew that something wasn't right.

I was about to get sick to the stomach
because I knew.

And I was trying to cut them short,

and they wouldn't stop
asking me questions.

So when did you decide to move back
to Jacksonville...

I feel like an interrogation went on
because

when I was in there,
I was like, I could feel my adrenaline

building a little bit because

I knew that
they wasn't asking me questions...

The questions they was asking me
was just to get it on record

how I spent the money.

But I felt it.

That feeling there's something else.

Okay. Let's rehearse it, okay?
You talk to the camera.

You can do it slow
because this is like a rehearsal. Okay.

Did you have fun
with the undercover operation?

It might have been,

but you're about to
deprive someone of their freedom,

their future, everything from family.

It's not meant to be
that kind of fun for us at all.

It's not fun at all
to deprive liberty to someone.

We just walked out of there and I was
kind of numb walking out the door,

I'm like, "Oh, this is it,
something is gonna happen from this."

It wasn't much longer after
the Fuzzy Bunny situation.

I got real depressed, I didn't eat.
I was just so distraught

and I got mad.
I looked over at him

and I told him about Uncle Jerry.

I said, "He asked me to marry him."
As soon as I said the words

I was sorry,

because I could tell
it was a real thing.

Because at first I thought
this could be a setup,

maybe they're trying to find out
my loyalty, and it wasn't a set up.

And so he cussed Uncle Jerry out.

The next day
we're driving down the road.

Jerry's in the passenger seat,
I'm driving...

Frankie is crying in the car seat.

It's bothering Jerry
more than it is me.

And we got in an argument.

And so he says, "Rob, I got to put him
down, let him down, it's enough."

And so he took him out of his car seat.

Oh, my God, Jerry, come on.
And a little teardrop came down my face

and I thought
I'm never gonna get out of this.

Come on. Lay down.

Come on.

I want mommy, I want mommy.