Possibly used planes to to cross border drug trafficking to amass millions then used gambling to launder money.
Or real life accountant like the movie.
If you look at the real money-maker strategy...he was buying houses and property in Florida...turning around two or three years later and making a profit. I would suspect that he was laundering money on the side with his plane operation and keeping a cut out of that. On paper, he was wealthy.
“Possibly used planes to to cross border drug trafficking to amass millions then used gambling to launder money.”
A check of public data available:
AIRMAN CERTIFICATE
STEPHEN CRAIG PADDOCK
City MESQUITE
State TX
Medical Certificate expired 2010.
Certificate: Private Pilot Airplane, with Instrument Rating.
“He was a pilot who owned an aircraft that he kept at Mesquite Metro Airport in Texas from 2007 to 2009. “
ABC NEWS.
“Possibly used planes to to cross border drug trafficking to amass millions then used gambling to launder money.”
That’s the same direction that I expect this to go. The gambling and real estate investing were a means for laundering and parking the money. And little brother Eric knows all about it.