Money, Money, Money. 

I can only imagine how brilliant these people thought they were.  Bet they were hip, had all the clothes and bling jewelery and everything else that they always wanted to buy.  LOL. 

"Fourteen men are charged in federal grand jury indictments with participating in a sophisticated bookmaking ring that used the Lucky Lady Casino and Card Room on El Cajon Boulevard as a legitimate front for the illicit operation."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fourteen-men-charged-illegal-gambling-operation-based-out-lucky-lady-casino-and-card

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2019-04-05/federal-probe-against-card-room-closes

Cyber crime and the Lottery Scam.  Spelled out and detailed. 

I saw a documentary on American Greed and another news show the other week.  Personally I have never fell prey to any scam on the internet as far as buying or falling for something where direct money is rendered.  My only actual experience was having to completely bring down my business computer system due to clicking on an email that I assumed was from a major credit card company of mine and having malware installed on my computer and then finding out, that it was all false and thus, my education in malware, etc.   The only other thing I learned about the internet fraud field was in reference to purchasing things with a credit or debit card and how valuable it is to use a separate card for internet purchases so your high limit valuable cards cannot be compromised by hackers or small internet companies selling your information, etc.

I receive numerous emails as well as phone calls and texts each and every day regarding all the scams, the lower interest rates, the $500 or $1,000 dollar gifts from all the major credit cards-hotels and assorted other scammers pretending to be the national well known company.  As well as the insurance company, the free vacation specials, the IRS tax calls, and all the other creative threatening scams. The list is huge.  I delete each and everyone of them, each and every day.  As well, I compare all of them to most all the promises of 100% money making, multi thousand dollar per day gambling systems. 

But after watching those two TV new shows that were extremely well put together, I finally seen the inside to the whole lottery scam field and it is not a little thing by any means. If you have wondered anything about this lottery thing, read the following.  There are so many key points in its success and those are explained.   

Try and catch the TV show on American Greed, the trips to Jamaica mad by the show and the US Law Enforcement officials will show you the actual mansions the people putting on the scams were living in as well as other things that went along with all of it.  But like the gambler, greed got them and landed them in prison.  Just about the same as a casino gambler that starts to win and cannot control himself, greed will get you and control you just about every time.

https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/595498/jamaica-lottery-deadly-scam-fbi

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nd/pr/jamaican-man-sentenced-prison-involvement-international-lottery-fraud-scheme

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/minneapolis/news/press-releases/jamaican-dj-arrested-in-florida-in-connection-with-north-dakota-telemarketing-lottery-scam

The strong will survive (maybe), the weak will be tremendously hurt (with some permanent closures), everything's going to change and it'll be bare-bones operations for quite some time. Like it or not.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/las-vegas-strip-to-come-back-with-major-differences-analysts-say-2009472/amp/

I agree with and endorse everything said in this city council video made last night. We need to reopen the whole country, maybe some certain sections or some certain areas that have extremely high infection rates and fatality counts happening  but 90% of the country's geographic area needs to be reopened and there's no reason why it should not be.

Page down when you load the link, it's not at the top of the page it is down in the middle it's an 8 minute and 25 second video and you'll see it down the page.

https://www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-mayor-calls-shut-down-total-insanity-demands-nevada-governor-reopen-state-now-1498434

The ultimate Washington Insider.  Had all the connections in the world, messed up went to federal prison, got out and he's right back in Washington. He was a huge player for the Indians, for their Casino advantages and things that made them a lot of money and of course, he made tons and tons of money!

Abramoff's lobbying and the surrounding scandals and investigation are the subject of two 2010 films: the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, released in May 2010,  and the feature film Casino Jack, released on December 17, 2010, starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff.

Arguably one of the world's most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players, Jack Abramoff's rollercoaster life story might as well be a major motion picture. In fact, it is. Already two major motion pictures based on Abramoff's story have hit the silver screen. Dubbed on the cover of Time Magazine as the "Man Who Bought Washington", Abramoff rose to become the nation's most successful and prominent lobbyist, before becoming enmeshed in the most harrowing political scandal since Watergate.

Having served 43 months in federal prison, Abramoff is out and ready to speak. Few know more than he about how Washington really works. Abramoff once labeled the dysfunctional and Byzantine system which has become our federal government as the 'favor factory'. None can better show why this factory needs to be shuttered, so good government and democracy can prevail.

Born in Atlantic City, raised in Beverly Hills, California, Abramoff was graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English Literature and Opera. At Brandeis, Abramoff commenced his political career, heading the state-wide College Republican group and was credited with delivering Massachusetts to Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first time since Eisenhower that a Republican would win the Bay State. Abramoff was soon elected as the national chairman of the College Republicans and built that organization into the largest student political organization in the free world.

His next position foreshadowed his rise to national prominence, as he was chosen to head President Reagan's grassroots lobbying organization. In this role, Abramoff honed the lobbying skills he would later deploy to become the nation's top legislative advocate. Under his leadership the organization moved major Reagan administration initiatives through the Congress and sponsored the world's first convocation of anti-Soviet forces in the bush of Southern Africa.

As the Reagan era wound down, Abramoff moved from the world of politics to the world of cinema, becoming a motion picture producer, making action adventure films, including 'Red Scorpion'. His international experience in structuring motion picture finance made him a popular lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been graduated in 1986; but the siren call of politics drew Abramoff back to his roots, and in 1994, he joined the lobbying division of the law firm headed by Bill Gates' father.  Abramoff set to work and, within a few years, built one of the nation's most prestigious and profitable lobbying practices. As Abramoff continued to build, his political base expanded and soon he found himself at the top of his profession.

When a corporation, Indian tribe, or foreign nation needed to win, they went to Team Abramoff, the eclectic hand-picked team of lobbying guns he assembled. Their clients rarely were defeated, and reaped billions of dollars of benefit.

Abramoff's arsenal included his Signatures restaurant, one of the Capital's finest, some of the best sports tickets in the nation, and an unlimited capacity to raise funds to fuel the political system which made his influence possible.

Abramoff had it all. And then it was gone. In an instant, his world collapsed and Abramoff fell into the abyss, eventually landing in federal prison, his name becoming synonymous with corruption and what's wrong with our government.

The fall from grace changed Jack Abramoff and woke him up. And now, Abramoff is determined to do all he can to rectify the wrong he did and to identify and help end the corruption of the system he so well played. His orations will not only serve as a cautionary tale, but as an historic platform for reform of the system.

Read and learn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12109-us-indicts-co-founder-of-onecoin-ponzi-scheme

Recently announced store closures on March 10th and a few in between then and now.  The closures currently taking place or most all of them by the end of the year.

Payless 2,500 stores
Gymboree 800 + stores
Charlotte Russe 594 stores
Shopko 70% by May, remaining by June, 120 stores
Marshalls 1061 stores
GAP 230 of its stores
H&M 160 stores this year
Starbucks 150 of its most under performing stores
The Children's Place 400 stores (at least)
Performance Bicycle 104 stores
Sears 89 stores
Vera Bradley 50 stores
Abercrombie & Fitch 40 stores
Christopher and Banks 30 to 40 stores
Victoria's Secret 53 stores
Chicos 250 stores
Lowe's 51 stores
Family Dollar 390 stores
JCPenney 27 stores
Z Gallerie Home Furniture 17 stores
Destination Maternity 42 to 67 stores
Things Remembered 250 stores
Ann Taylor, Dress Barn, Lane Bryant, Loft 667 stores
Winn-Dixie, Harvey's, Bi-Lo supermarkets 107 stores
Footlocker 165 stores
Macy's 8 stores
J.Crew 30 stores

So now on the Google main pages and I guess on the Yahoo and all the rest of them, whatever you got your computer or tablet or phone set to when you click on the news you see all these commercial advertisements inserted in between the actual news stories now.  Which is getting to be big money for those main pages of the internet providers. Now all of a sudden the gaming applications are popping up and they're going to have the major cities featured, where if it is Chicago, Chicago woman wins so and so, if it is New York or Miami and so and so in this city or state on large, etc.  However, it is actually only an advertisement that looks like a news story with the current date on it and it changes every day. They are all coming about especially because the lockdown and the C19 with the casinos being closed.

Copy and Pasted a sample below:


Woman Was Playing on This Free Slot Machine App, When All Of A Sudden She Won Big
by Dave FreemanApril, 2020

Using popular Caesars app, 32 year old Donna Martin won the progressive jackpot.
Smartphone Slots Go Viral! Legally!

Casinos are beside themselves over a free smartphone app that's allowing everyday people to win huge progressive jackpots. People like Donna Martin, who won the progressive jackpot after just a few spins, using free coins.

"I Downloaded the Caesars, and I won on something like my 25th spin. This is amazing, like a dream!"

Caesars is an Android and iPhone social casino app where you can play the best social casino slots and win big jackpots, for free!

**note: if the timer at the end of this story is still counting down, you are in if you download it in time. If it's not counting down, you can still get the app, but no free coins.

The cool part is, this is 100% legal. It's 2020, sports betting just became legal, and Social casino style slot games like Caesars are legal as well. It's a great time to be alive!

There's no subscription, deposits, or monthly fees. It's the ultimate social casino slot app, and with a chance at big progressive jackpots, you'd be silly to not at least give it a try, especially if you like slots.

Hit the progressive jackpot & play over 100 slot machines with Caesars!

FREE COINS ENABLED FOR ANOTHER 56 seconds
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Disclaimer: Caesars Is Not a Real Money App.

THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND NOT AN ACTUAL NEWS ARTICLE, This product is intended for use by those 21 or older for amusement purposes only. Practice or success at social casino gaming does not imply future success at real money gambling.

On the way to pick up a neighbor of mine that finished a shift at a public service sector job ending at midnight, it was 12:05 am when i snapped this picture.  This is a major commercial section in a good sized city. I have never witnessed this road empty of vehicles as far as one can see, even at 3 or 4 am.

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The absolute reality of opening casinos and the possibility of what can and cannot happen.

https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/what-does-a-gaming-reopen-look-like-in-las-vegas

The Lucky Dragon, a failed Chinese venture on the Las Vegas Strip Revisited.

Now do not forget, it is a stones throw from that long long long time eye-sore, long-term failed after failed project now looks to be reopening under the name of Resort World and  opening was for 2021, but of course we had the new Las Vegas problem that coincides with C19.

Of course the Lucky Dragon was doomed from the start, that is the way they catered only to the Asians and left out the predominant amount of people in Las Vegas  that gambles and spends money.  They should have made it the reverse way around but they did not do it.

I am also wondering why would all those investors, with all that kind of money want to leave China and get permanent residency in the United States, if China was such a great country?  Does not make sense but that is not the point of this video.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hCktIJAYwGI

Great article with factual reality.  Not many will like.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/09/why-re-open-the-las-vegas-strip.aspx

Seriously!  F#@$ing seriously!  I walked into the restaurant this morning, H-Money slept in my office on his homemade couch pull out, he brought his own blankets and pillows LOL.  He's been here for a few days and he made me breakfast. I walked over from my house. MSNBC news was on and he's listening to some politician talking about this C19 event is mostly caused by climate change and lack of green fields. And the politician that was on, is nearby my state and I know who the politician's spouse is.  Here is the punch line,  the politicians spouse is involved with an environmental company so it doesn't get any better than that!!!!

Seriously doesn't get any better than that.   I'll drop it, just wanted to express that while I'm waiting on my fresh cup of coffee here from my waiter H-Money, 

Gambling in the great chinese territory of #1 revenue producing Macau.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/03/22/las-vegas-is-closed-but-casinos-in-macau-china-have-reopened-pandemic-wary-gamblers-are-now-offered-cash-cards-to-show-up/#2f1f1dd25cfa

I highly recommend the following links.  Take a trip without leaving your your living room, the confines of your home or wherever you're lockdown at!

Get a cup of coffee or a beer, whatever floats your boat and remove yourself from the confines.

https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/national-parks-service/parks

Started October 2011.

A few years old, but people that make deals to get money for a high-stakes gambling and then it blows up in their face, do get prosecuted. Here's one article I came across:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/bad-check-triggers-five-felony-counts-for-man/

I find it almost comical, it is sad but it's comical to the point where greed kicks in caused by sheer stupidity, the same as winning larger wagers and falling into fallacy land that you finally found a proven and cannot fail betting niche.  Again, it's the financial markets where you have hundreds if not thousands of these fake firms prying on the innocent middle-class person that has a little bit of savings to get out of the US Dollar and into gold, silver, precious metals and stock, but the only problem with that is the money is going straight into the sellers pocket.

It's scam after scam after scam. The US government meaning the FBI,Securities and Exchange Commission, the IRS, the Secret Service and all kinds of agencies, hundreds if not thousands of complaints in cases that they're working and all of a sudden the last month or so the numbers doubling and quadrupling all involving Scare Tactics in the investment field of getting people out of the US dollar and into solid sssets such as gold-silver precious metals and so on.

The only problem is they are given the money to scam artists such as what they profile on some of these news shows, one a few years back that comes to mind is Spyker Investment corporation in Florida, a very well publicized case where they were selling gold and silver and precious metals and storing it in the United Kingdom but the money was never sent and nothing purchased, wasn't anything stored one day the phones were disconnected.  If you look it up it's under Spyker Investment, those are the type of cases that are being worked in droves now where everybody feels they are doing the right thing but they are going totally the wrong way with it.

What is even more comical is talked about so frequently on other gambling boards how people believe they're making money in Precious Metals and in the stock markets, let's hope they're not investing with fake firms.

https://www.complaintsboard.com/spyker-consulting-spyker-metals-spyker-precious-metals-manipulators-unethical-tactics-c290294

https://www.cnbc.com/id/48814569

Myself, H-Money and a couple of other people are sitting around in a closed restaurant, we have some movies, we have some widescreen TVs playing some YouTube clips and we came across the following one posted below.

Seeing that we are just kicking back, bullshittin, we got about three dozens fresh spring rolls out on a platter, we got some jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese and mango and topped with mozzarella cheese, melted in the broiler. We got some ice cold beer and we're just watching stuff on YouTube and playing some movies all night. 

In light of what's going to happen to Vegas, which is, it'll never be the same and at least half of it will implode during this shut down crisis and if does not during this lockdown it certainly will after, because it will never be crowded for a long long time like what it has been for the past several decades. They will never ever recover, no matter what anyone says, that is all wishful thinking.

Watch this first clip. Going to put a link to it. You Have To Laugh!!!  If not, have a few beers and watch it again cuz it's absolutely fantastic classic Ron White.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpdJzBcjXfo

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/02/uk-casino-company-caesars-entertainment-fined-record-13m

If dreams can come true so can nightmares. Resorts World just might want to be thinking about if it was such a good choice in the very beginning:

"Resorts World President Scott Sibella, a veteran casino executive and former president and CEO of the MGM Grand, is no stranger to challenges. But Resorts World is the biggest and most expensive project he has worked on."

https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/business/gaming/2019/dec/09/resorts-world-president-this-will-be-a-property-li/

Some of the events that C19 is  bringing to the casino industry here in the USA:

https://www.nativebusinessmag.com/tribes-sue-commercial-insurers-to-cover-costs-of-business-disruption/

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-01/in-shuttered-las-vegas-tropicana-is-sold-for-5-months-rent

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/casinos_tourism/nj-losing-millions-in-taxes-fees-from-closed-atlantic-city-casinos/article_0459d4cf-477a-533d-9d4b-3f3db6d2a41b.html

Hanging out.  Snack time!  Yes, it is good.

Super Fresh spring rolls we just made, avocado, shrimp and a little bit of spice inside of it!

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One of the best comedians of all time. RIP  Mr. Buddy Hackett. This was a classic, a Buddy Hackett joke about duck hunting


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDaww4HT5g7ig&feature=share&playnext=1

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-vegas-shell/

How Caesar's Palace Casino closed down in Las Vegas and what they did while they were closing down. Click on the link, good article for informational purposes.

"We didn't have a manual on how to close the casino in Las Vegas. That's not something we ever anticipated ever needing to do," McBurney said, adding, "we quickly moved to take the cash out of the slot machines, deposit to the cage. Take the cash out of the cage and deposit it into the bank. Cose the restaurants. Close the hotels and look at our inventories."

https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/lights-out-a-look-inside-caesars-palace-as-it-waits-to-reopen