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In March 2000, according to The Daily Beast, the F.B.I. received an anonymous phone tip: Someone named “Uncle Jerry” was rigging the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion, stealing game pieces from the inside and selling them.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2020

There are no indications that German politicians were aware that VW was rigging its diesel emissions tests.

From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2015

Exchange officials were forehanded in clearing themselves of any charge that their institution was rigging the market against the Roosevelt candidacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Burrows, whose character was unknown to them, intended to avoid the enemy, and was rigging the long gun for a stern-chaser.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.

There was rigging below him—the lee royal-backstay stretched farthest out from the mast, and if he brushed it, there was a possible chance.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan