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Something doesn't add up, that's for sure.
What we think we do know about the guy is based on interviewing his brother. I'm starting the think his brother doesn't know him very well.
not to get into LV's 4 chan linked tweet thread (that really just goes back to the fast and the furious theory plus ISIS and the FBI gunwalking or something)
BUT... thinking more about it, while having a whole bunch of guns, as Dryden pointed out, isn't a predictor for the behaviour, but, on the other hand they appear to be a bunch of the same kinds of guns which is different than collecting (maybe)
Then... we have the gambling and the large number of federally reported transactions above 10K. That adds up to a [Mark May] ton of cash flow. (Meanwhile his brother is saying he won 40K at slots one time, or some such thing? Do pro poker guys play slots?)
So, we have a dude with a whole lot of cash, that owns multiple houses, 2 airplanes, doesn't have a job other than pro gambler who may or may not have been a real estate investing whiz (this is unclear to me admittedly) whose work history is working for the IRS and being an accountant for some other places.
Addition after the fact here:
But I mean, there was a [Mark May] ton of gambling:
And this is just the [Mark May] that he ran through casinos I'd assume (where he'd need chips or won slots jackpots and don't tell me homeboy is coming out ahead on slots) so, there's 2 million right there, maybe he's an awesome poker player, no idea but... that's got to be a lot of money for him.
Meanwhile we're getting stories like,
In the months before his deadly rampage, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock was a man “descending into madness,” according to a person briefed on new findings in the investigation.
All of which is another way of saying, "Dude didn't look so great, and didn't like his ex's husband" Talk about not a marker of mass murder. I mean, you just described Akron.
On a more serious note from that, I will say I've been suspecting that some sort of illness (terminal brain cancer kinds of things, not necessarily mental) might have played a role here... but... why wire 6 figures to the Philippines and go out in a blaze of whatever (didn't want to say glory)
But if nothing else, the guy was clearly, by the gambling interested in finding ways to make a quick buck, so, I don't have a problem thinking something else was going on too.
Maybe not, maybe he's a garden variety psycho that just decided it was time to seize his 15 minutes.
... but why the fuck is he wiring 100K to the Philippines?
Edit2: plus, the father was a criminal. The brother is a 4x convicted felon. Apples falling from trees, and all that.
Two days after the robbery, Paddock surrendered to police after a shooting altercation with authorities left him with a shattered windshield
To be clear, the brother with the felonies is not the same one who's been making statements to the press. They have a younger brother, too.
As for playing high limit slots, it's a pretty easy way to launder money. All you have to do is figure out the 99.5% return machine, and play $10k daily. This isn't $10k money in, it's $10k total play. There will be days you go bust, and days you leave up, and overall you will be down, but you're down a calculated percentage over time. Put dirty money in machine. Take clean money out. Rinse. Repeat.
Edit: plus, you offset the taxes on jackpots with your losses. I know a couple (relatively) high rollers. They never pay taxes on the jackpots.
Edit2: plus, the father was a criminal. The brother is a 4x convicted felon. Apples falling from trees, and all that.
His girlfriend is a Filipina. He supposedly sent her back to Manila weeks before the shootings. The $100k was likely money for her to live on for a long time ($100k in the PI is like at least $500k here) since he likely knew he wasn't going to remain alive.
Yeah, the 100k seems pretty unimportant to me. Just wanted to wire her a nice chunk of change since he knew he wouldn't be coming out on the good side of what he was planning, and she probably wouldn't get much of anything after the feds seized/froze everything in their investigation.
True, but $100k is worth so much more in the PI than it is in the US or Australia. If he were to "bury a briefcase in the desert for her" and she found it, how is she going to get that money to the PI, provided it was a shit-ton, like $100k? Not sure about the laws in the PI, but maybe money wired to the PI by foreigners isn't subject to the same taxation/scrutiny as is money wired by PI nationals (she has an Australian passport, but did she maintain dual citizenship?), so it was best for him to do it. Maybe he just didn't think she was savvy enough to get $100k into the PI by herself.Point is, if he wanted her to have money, there's less obvious ways to do it.
Yeah maybe. I'm not saying thats not it. I'm just saying that may not be all there is to it.True, but $100k is worth so much more in the PI than it is in the US or Australia. If he were to "bury a briefcase in the desert for her" and she found it, how is she going to get that money to the PI, provided it was a [Mark May]-ton, like $100k? Not sure about the laws in the PI, but maybe money wired to the PI by foreigners isn't subject to the same taxation/scrutiny as is money wired by PI nationals (she has an Australian passport, but did she maintain dual citizenship?), so it was best for him to do it. Maybe he just didn't think she was savvy enough to get $100k into the PI by herself.
Oh yeah, totally agree that there's a shit ton more that went on that no one knows yet...Yeah maybe. I'm not saying thats not it. I'm just saying that may not be all there is to it.
I thought the one that was talking to the press was the youngest, the shooter the oldest, then 2 between them that they don't communicate with.
I may be incorrect as well. Lots shit out there.I may have misread it, or it was printed incorrectly.
I may be incorrect as well. Lots [Mark May] out there.
thump, how does that video change everything? and, lvbuckeye, what do you think you hear? at the beginning of the video, there is the weaponry being fired, with expected echoes to follow. there are plenty of tall structures in las vegas for sound to bounce off of. at 1:08 there is the same.This changes everything.