Posted on 11/03/2017 3:07:15 PM PDT by familyop
Gunman Stephen Paddock lost a large amount of wealth in the two years before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview with a local television station.
Lombardo told KLAS-TV, Channel 8, that Paddock’s wealth fluctuated because of gambling, real estate transactions and “everything else that he chose to do.” Paddock lost a large amount of money after September 2015, the sheriff said.
Lombardo speculated that the financial losses might have contributed to Paddock’s decision to spray a country music festival with bullets, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others.
“I think that might have a determining factor on what he determined to do,” Lombardo said in the interview, which aired Wednesday night.
Later, Lombardo said, “If you look at the numbers that he did gamble, he was pretty prolific, but he was going in the wrong direction, so I don’t know if that had any effect on what he decided to do.”
Lombardo could not be reached Thursday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The sheriff told Channel 8 that Paddock was concerned with his status in casinos and with friends and family. “Obviously, that was starting to decline in a short period of time, and that may have a determining effect on why he decided to do what he did,” Lombardo said. He said authorities have not determined a clear motive for the shooting.
Investigators also have not been able to pinpoint a moment in Paddock’s life that would have led him to amass dozens of weapons since October 2016, he said. “I actually hope we find something in the pathology of his brain that will help us understand this,” Lombardo said.
Paddock’s brain tissue was sent to Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology for a neuropathological examination, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said in the weeks after the shooting.
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this is such a crock....you lose lotza money to the casinos...then why not take it out on the casinos??? it makes zero sense to take potshots at a festival some distance away that has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR GAMBLING LOSSES....
this is such b.s.
they cant come out with the truth, can they?
I won’t believe anything like this unless they show they have exhaustively investigated possible “money laundering” angles. It is impossible to believe that Paddock made loads of money over the years as a “professional gambler” playing video poker, as has been asserted in the MSM many times now. So unless and until there is a really credible investigation of all of his sources of funds, any potential “losses” in the past two years may only be a blip in the larger picture.
Another change in the story there. Previously, a media outlet (don’t remember which one) and Stephen’s brother said that he made millions each of the past few years from gambling. I suspect that most readers, like myself, were refusing to believe that story.
This was a guy who allegedly earned a living playing video poker. LOL.
Everyone on this website who has even a minimal understanding of the casino industry knew that was a crock of sh!t from the start.
Yeah, his life ruined by the casinos so he shoots up a music festival?????? Does not pass the laugh test. If he hated the casinos so much surely he would target them more directly.
Missing hard drive. Missing and dead witnesses. Conflicting info. FBI wipes all the phones it confiscated.
How are we NOT supposed to see a conspiracy here?
Not entirely a crock.
You lose a lot of money at the casino, your life is “over” (to a nutcase, at least). Your life is over, you might as well take out someone you don’t like. He may well be a Hillary voter who was triggered by being a failure at gambling in addition to being a failure at life (yes, I know he earned money, but he had no one in his life who mattered other than a non-permanent girlfriend, plus all Hillary voters are losers).
Are the powers looking to blame gambling and a third party circumstance deviating from their own shenanigans, cover ups and quiet abuses of the like of Paddock?
this is such a crock....you lose lotza money to the casinos...then why not take it out on the casinos??? it makes zero sense to take potshots at a festival some distance away that has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR GAMBLING LOSSES....
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My guess, other than be crazy and probably suicidal, he was ticked off about the noise.
I have a hard time believing this. For one thing why would he turn his rage towards innocent people, rather than to gambling establishments, if losing the money was the factor for his rage?
the noise? the windows of the hotel room, im sure were good quality and would minimize the sound of music from what, hundreds of yards away?
Same thing in the army. The dude flips out, kills people or commit suicide because of ridiculous pressure and cover ups requiring to blame someone for some screw up the chain is guilty of, and the nice sounding “circumstance” explanation of a dude drinking and gambling and casinos comes up with the decorum of new AA classes...
They need to hire a better group of narrative crafters.
These ‘explanations’ are just silly.
I agree this is total BULLSHIRT. We are living in the former Soviet Union or The Matrix.
In the spirit with which this investigation is going, I posit that the sheriff or the fibbees think there might be a teeny tiny piece of paper in P’s brain, with the words “why I did it” neatly printed on it.
“It is impossible to believe that Paddock made loads of money over the years as a “professional gambler” playing video poker, as has been asserted in the MSM many times now.”
I worked with a super nice black guy who dressed and acted like a millionaire, despite having a job that paid, maybe $30,000. He had three cars, including a new Mercedes and a new Audi. He put $5k worth of twenty inch wheels and tires on both. His third was a beater. After he was murdered, it turned out he was running an entertainment business which included underage prostitutes and nude party dancing. (He was shot by two black pimps.)
I was suspicious of the apparent wealth and suspected a problem. But he never missed a day of work and seemed like a bright, upstanding guy. It didn’t add up, but there was nothing obviously wrong. Apparently, he told his family that he was a very well paid employee. The job was his cover.
My first thought about the professional gambler story was, bunk. There probably aren’t five guys in the whole USA who can pull that off successfully in the long run. The odds always favor the house. Paddock’s money had to come from something else.
He went broke buying guns.
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Totally correct, Enchante. All gamblers in the casinos lose money. If they don’t, they get banned. The whole story of Paddock’s source of wealth is a preposterous fable.
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