And it’s not even regular poker. It’s video poker, which is even more rigged than your average casino.
Well done, Anne.
Here’s the problem. The guy reported income to the IRS from gambling. IRS tax returns are the ultimate evidence of income, used to borrow for real estate loans and lines of credit.
Until someone can produce hard evidence that Paddock made the money some other way, the existing evidence is that he made it as he reported, improbability notwithstanding.
A bank or even the government has to accept that evidence IF that’s all the evidence there is.
Oh, and he was (in his mind) able to demonstrate that he was smarter than the rest of us, with his detailed plan.
Boring. No weapons deals, money laundering etc. Just an a##hole who tried to go out big.
“Now the media are just taunting us with their tall tales about Stephen Paddock, the alleged Las Vegas shooter. Reputedly serious news organizations are claiming that he made a living playing video poker.”
I don’t what Ann Coulter is reading but there have been articles detailing how Paddock became rich off real estate. He also gambled but that’s not how he became rich.
Here is one excerpt from nymag.com dated Oct 5
“Stephen Paddock attended Cal State Northridge, and his family said he was an accountant. According to federal records, he worked several government jobs from 1976 to 1985: as a postal worker, an IRS agent, and an auditor for the Defense Contract Audit Agency. He was employed at a predecessor to the defense contractor Lockheed Martin for three years in the late ’80s. He also owned rental properties across the country, including spots in Los Angeles and a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
Eric Paddock said he and his brother shared a real-estate business for decades, and when they sold it Stephen made about $2 million. “He’s a multimillionaire,” Eric said. “He helped me become affluent, he made me wealthy.”
According to CNN, records show Paddock purchased at least nine other houses, condos, and apartment buildings over the past few decades:
While he took an $11,000 hit on the Florida house when he sold it, the records show Paddock bought and sold another property in Reno, two homes and an apartment complex in Mesquite, Texas, and at least four other properties in California. He profited handsomely from the sale of an apartment building he owned with a former wife and other family members. The building, purchased in 1992, sold for $3.2 million in 2004.
In 2014, he paid $369,022 in cash for the home he shared with Danley in Mesquite, Nevada. He erected a mesh privacy screen around the property, and was forced to take it down after his neighbors signed a petition. He was much less private at a home he owned in Melbourne, Florida, giving a neighbor a key and telling him he could borrow tools if he kept an eye on the house during the long stretches when he was out of town.”
The media suck.
I was just watching an MSM interview with the maintenance guy who was shot at.
He was trying to carefully give a moment-by-moment account of what happened, when the media nitwit interrupted him to ask him a bunch of ‘feelz’ questions: How did you stay calm? Do you feel lucky to be alive? Don’t you owe your life to Jesus Campos?
In a better world Ann Coulter would be running the New York Times and journalism would be a respected profession....
The best way to win in Vegas, is to play the game with the best odds.
Which is why I always buy stock in the casino, if I go to Vegas to gamble.