Posted on 10/07/2017 10:59:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LAS VEGAS — Stephen Paddock was a contradiction: a gambler who took no chances. A man with houses everywhere who did not really live in any of them. Someone who liked the high life of casinos but drove a nondescript minivan and dressed casually, even sloppily, in flip-flops and sweatsuits. He did not use Facebook or Twitter, but spent the past 25 years staring at screens of video poker machines.
Mr. Paddock, a former postal worker and tax auditor, lived an intensely private, unsocial life that exploded into public view on Sunday, when he killed 58 people at a country music festival and then shot himself. But even with nationwide scrutiny on his life, the mystery of who he was has only seemed to deepen.
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“either a deep state operator or involved with the mob”
Company fella ? His star will go up on the wall shortly ??
No, it’s only if a single payout is over $600. Paddock, being a former IRS agent knew exactly how to launder his money and file pristine tax returns.
Casinos report winnings not losses. You bring in $100,000 in dirty money and win $70,000 of it back. The casino reports it to the IRS. Now you have $70,000 in clean money.
He made 5 million last year gambling.
No way.
He appears to have been a really rich Ghost. As well as a monster of epic proportions.
I played the 25 cent video poker machines at an off strip casino for about an hour and won $75. Went to lunch on my winnings and then went back and lost the rest before supper. :-)
Laundering started with coin operated washing machines. The mafia simply claimed that they got all their earnings from people putting coins in there. No one can verify it.
Imagine how much more false earnings can be claimed then with coin operated Poker! All he had to do was take millions of cash from the mafia casino, play it and boom, Casino off book drug money can be explained with real gambling earnings.
In exchange he got to keep the game earnings on the way by the sheer odds.
He was an IRS guy and that makes it all the more compelling because he would know exactly how to pull it off and explain it or consult with the mafia on this. Political contributions by the mafia might also have contributed to blocking any inquiry in the practice.
Indian Casinos are also a corrupt democrat cash cow where the beneficiary Indians are kicked out of the tribe to keep the earnings to politico types, as in a major Clinton style foundation laundering op through Haiti non profits
Three posts on 4chan predicted the massacre. Motive as stated was so that metal detectors and backscatter machines would become mandatory first in casinos and then in many other venues. Ground level investors in the two companies involved [Chertoff was one, as I recall] would walk away with billions.
http://truthfeednews.com/wow-ominous-message-predicting-vegas-massacre-posted-days-before-event/
Paddock apparently had vast amounts of cash and no discernible job since the 1980’s. According to a Las Vegas newspaper, he bought the home in Mesquite for $369,000 in CASH. I’m not aware that he had a mortgage on any of his several properties, or any debt for that matter.
Who knew that video poker could net you untold millions of dollars? Wow.
He also had a “13” tattooed on his neck, but it’s photoshopped out of most pictures. Why bother removing it from pictures?
Interesting, Looks like Paddock favored the high ground going way back.
Yes, people in the know can and do. Perhaps not so much now, but as late as 2007 you could beat certain machines that had parimutuel jackpots.
Machines get rigged all the time too. No proof, but it’s a given when money is involved cheating isn’t far behind.
So the guy wasn’t all bad.
I know the NYT probably sees this as something bad but it was what 25 years ago, and who wouldn’t defend their property or business from rioters.
I doubt that.
Counterfeiter?
Nonsense.
good point
we should see if a star had been added in the lobby
LOL
FBI like and hire accountants. He also worked for the IRS.
did you see this article?
Explosive possessed by Stephen Paddock may have been used in NYC bombing
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