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Gunman's brother: 'If a lot of these hotels say they don’t know Steve, they’re lying'
LA Times ^ | 10/4/2017 | Laura J. Nelson and Matt Pearce

Posted on 10/05/2017 6:22:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

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To: ladyjane

If the casino suspects that they will ban you.
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In the ‘good old days’, upon being discovered with hands in cookie jar, a trip into the desert was in your future.

Since the state took over everything got screwed up.

Payouts probably less because the ‘mob’ understood the more you won, the more you played and the deeper they got into your pockets.

Any ‘mob type flic’ will show that the very WORST thing you can do is say hello to a ‘gangster’

And when he offers you an ‘ez pay loan’ turn it down, won’t be long and they will be owning YOUR business and you will run it until they cease to want to screw with you.

Sopranos played that ‘well’ as the gang all ran around like someone actually WORKED for that mink or new TV and Adriana running around like she really ‘earned’ that restaurant/night club...then had the nerve to THINK she really was the owner and had a say in anything.


21 posted on 10/05/2017 6:34:06 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: Zhang Fei

Waterboard his entire family and his Filipino “girlfriend.”


22 posted on 10/05/2017 6:35:24 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Zhang Fei

Freak show family.


23 posted on 10/05/2017 6:35:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Zhang Fei
He made us wealthy. He was a very successful person. He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it mathematically."

I just saw the Tom Cruise movie "American Made" this last Saturday. I'm suspecting Private Pilot Stephen Paddock made his money the same way Tom Cruise did in that movie.

I'm beginning to suspect his gambling was just a front to launder money. I don't see the Casinos tolerating someone who is continuously winning money from them. "Losing" they will tolerate forever, but "Winning"? No. They will start looking at this guy with great scrutiny if he has been winning for 20 years.

24 posted on 10/05/2017 6:40:29 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: af_vet_1981
He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it mathematically."


Pure b.s.
25 posted on 10/05/2017 6:44:55 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Zhang Fei

[ People can’t seem to cope with that either. ]

Yeah, we bumpkins get all weird about 58 or 59 senseless deaths of innocent people and 500+ innocent people injured.

Pardon our trouble on processing it all.


26 posted on 10/05/2017 6:45:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; bitt; LucyT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3592387/posts?page=14#14

Blood of Tyrants wrote:

“Was his brother about to say Paddock was an arms dealer?

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/10/04/shooters-brother-may-have-just-busted-this-investigation-wide-open-steve-was-an-arm-im-sorry-please-dont/

PING!! Brother of the perp almost said it: “Steve was an arm- ...”


27 posted on 10/05/2017 6:47:17 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Maudeen

Absolutely. Nobody can tell me he didn’t know old Steve’s political views.

At a minimum.


28 posted on 10/05/2017 6:48:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lee martell

The brother appears to me to be one of those types that handles anxiety by talking. He’s worried about getting tied to this and he can’t shut up. My bet is that he has reason to be worried.


29 posted on 10/05/2017 6:49:50 PM PDT by tatown
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The $100 machines probably have better odds than 75%, but certainly less than 100%. If the evil one hadn’t been consistently losing money, the hotels wouldn’t have been consistently giving him great comps.


30 posted on 10/05/2017 6:50:14 PM PDT by AZLiberty (The logical endpoint of "zero-tolerance history" is zero history.)
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To: gaijin; bitt; LucyT

gaijin wrote:

“Here is a twitter source who knew and said Paul Manafort was under surveillance LONG before any media outfit reported same.

His sources are good, as is his track-record:

https://twitter.com/search?q=James%20B%20Scooping&src=typd

He has a number of points:

1. A male was in the room with Paddock. He left right before the shooting began.

2. The motive for the shooting was absolutely political. If the film is released, that political motive will be clear and “will absolutely change many things going forward”.

3. If the film of the shooting is not released, that non-release decision will be a fear on the part of the authorities that such release would trigger action by OTHER CELLS.

4. Paddock did plan to escape but that was cut short by the rapid response of the unarmed casino security guy.

5. Paddock mentions in the film being part of a NETWORK but does not specify if that network is AntiFa, or ISIS or any others.

6. A secret digital online profile of Paddock was uncovered about 24 hours ago.”

Another ping!!

https://twitter.com/search?q=James%20B%20Scooping&src=typd


31 posted on 10/05/2017 6:51:44 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: AZLiberty
[My bet is that he has reason to be worried.]



Oh yes, the pun is definitely intended.
32 posted on 10/05/2017 6:54:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I just saw the Tom Cruise movie "American Made" this last Saturday. I'm suspecting Private Pilot Stephen Paddock made his money the same way Tom Cruise did in that movie.

I suspect he did make money. The key would be to spread the wealth. Vegas has 104 casinos. If he won $500K a year, that's about $400 a month from each casino. Nobody's going to look at him twice for that kind of money. His specialty was video poker, where (according to the brother in one of the interviews) the payout was 99.37% plus hotel comps. The guy might have been Rain Man with numbers - he spent three years as an IBM auditor, and they don't hire dummies.

33 posted on 10/05/2017 6:54:52 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

“He did it mathematically.”

Translation: He counted cards. Casinos would know; he’d be out in short time.


34 posted on 10/05/2017 6:55:07 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("We should fear the tyranny of the easily offended." Stossel)
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To: tatown

Yup, when the FBI finally gets around to interviewing this nut all they need is a couple cups of coffee and a camera/microphone. Bag of cats.


35 posted on 10/05/2017 6:55:37 PM PDT by DeplorableUs (A republic ...if we can keep it!!!)
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To: tatown; AZLiberty

Oops hit the wrong person. This one was to tatown.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3592387/posts?page=32#32


36 posted on 10/05/2017 6:58:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

This guy has ‘I’m involved’ written all over him.


37 posted on 10/05/2017 7:00:34 PM PDT by tatown
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To: DeplorableUs

With this clown they may be able to use decaf.


38 posted on 10/05/2017 7:01:13 PM PDT by tatown
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Intelligence Community

Or he got Trump elected with Rooskie money...


39 posted on 10/05/2017 7:01:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Zhang Fei

The brother reminds me of Dennis Hopper going on about Colonel Kurtz.

I almost wonder if Paddock hadn’t built up a little cult of personality around himself. He was Mr. Cool Mysterious Ultracompetence and they were his admirers. Then maybe he screwed up and got himself into debt or something, but rather than admit it and be brought down to earth in their eyes, he decided to go out in a blaze as some kind of nihilistic mastermind.


40 posted on 10/05/2017 7:02:53 PM PDT by Yardstick
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