THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In other news, the FBI says McDonald's and its customers have been swindled. The Feds say the restaurant chain's popular prize games were fixed by the man responsible for secretly distributing the winning game pieces. CNN's Skip Loescher has the story.</s>SKIP LOESCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "Pick Your Prize Monopoly" has been one of McDonald's most popular promotional games. Based on Hasbro's Monopoly board game, those who could match all properties in a certain color scheme could win prizes ranging from $20 to $1 million. But as it turns out, the Justice Department contends the game was rigged, not by McDonald's, but by the Georgia company hired by McDonald's to run the game.</s>JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL: More than $13 million worth of grand prizes have been corruptly won by the coconspirators in the scheme.</s>LOESCHER: The Justice Department has hailed McDonald's for its help in cracking the case and insists no one with McDonald's was involved. The FBI says eight employees of Simon Marketing have been arrested, implicated in the scheme to defraud McDonald's and ultimately its customers.</s>ASHCROFT: The government is charging that a Simon employee, Jerome Jacobson, embezzled the winning high-value game pieces and conspired to have individuals fraudulently claim to be the winners.</s>LOESCHER: All eight persons arrested Monday are being charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. One of them hails from Fair Play, South Carolina. McDonald's, meantime, is instituting an instant giveaway.</s>JACK GREENBERG, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, MCDONALD'S: McDonald's is committed to giving our customers a chance to win every dollar that has been stolen by this criminal ring.</s>LOESCHER: Skip Loescher, CNN, Washington.
FBI Says McDonald's and Customers Swindled