Not that unusual.. definitely not a cube farm or corporate life.
I have a dear friend that is a high stakes gambler... he does make money at it, he took some of his cash from a sale of his company and does the gambling on the side as a part time job. His life is a bit different than most... He started to gamble years ago to develop his critical thinking and risk assessment skills and found he did pretty well at it!
I suspect he owed the IRS a metric butt ton of unpaid taxes on his winnings, both in the US and overseas. The IRS noose was prob getting itchy along with some Trump derangement thrown in or he came to hate Vegas as they reported his earnings and started the IRS investigations... Maybe the seed fund for the gambling came from Dad?
The IRS looks at patterns, they busted a dude in 2004 that robbed a bank on his high school graduation in 1980, My brother knew him well! Dude took $28K at gun point... it was never solved till 2004... His income for years did not jive to buy a boat which did not match up nor did his down payment on a house years later... they posted two agents at the end of his driveway for a week... he knew, went out and confessed.. wife and two daughters never had a clue. Served time and got released
Early in the 9/11 clean up... Al Qaeda was making lots of its operational money from online video gambling... it was shut down partly for that reason... then it was allowed again due to the large amount of intel spun off by the online gambling world... I suspect this dude just was pissed at Vegas and the IRS...time will tell.
Its just so sad how it is though... very sad to see our Constitutional Freedoms abused by these whack jobs and slip knots...sad for the victims and their families...
I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to these things, but I would have thought it would be hard to win a ton of money in Las Vegas without having taxes withheld by the casinos.