WEBVTT - Put it on my Tab: The Crown Casino Heist 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:09.600 Hey, Saren Ware, you go, what do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:09.760 Oh? 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.640 It is the time for the show. Yes I do. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.160 I was dreaming about it and I wanted to tell you. Okay, 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:20.640 one of my interests is undergarments. Oh okay, dude, either 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.599 the closest thing to you of your clothing? 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:22.880 Yeah? 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.720 Right, And I learned something new today about undergarments. And 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.520 I'm not like reading about it all the time, but like, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.480 I try to keep a little facts and then I'm like, oh, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.560 that's interesting. Whale bones used to be used in bras. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.479 That's interesting, right, That's just interesting. Another bra fact while 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.600 we're on the topic, turns out that, you know, the 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.480 the clasp for the bra that hook designs like twelve 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.519 year old boys have to practice with one hand on 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.000 a Teddy bear to undo? Is that just me? 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.360 No? 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.520 Anyway, that clasp it was invented by who? 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:54.760 Who? 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:55.080 No? 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:00.840 Who was invented by Elizabeth I give you. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.880 No, I give you a better guests. It was invented 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.000 at the start or the end of the nineteenthentury early 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.160 twentieth century. That period, I think who would be inventing stuff. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.200 Then child al capine. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.960 You know this person's name, Mark Twain. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.080 Mark Twain. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.080 Twain invented the modern clasp for the bra. We still 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.039 using the clasp on the bra you're wearing now was 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.919 invented by Mark Twain. Yes, wild right and ridiculous. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.440 I guess, thank you. Wow, that is ridiculous. So you're interested. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.560 I like how you said it was undergarments, but it's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:31.919 really bras No. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.280 No, like socks, all the whole thing, long underwear. I 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.920 got opinions about all of it. You know this, I guess, dude. Yeah, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.119 the t tank tops. I mean, you name an undergarment 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:42.600 I got. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.319 Opinion to, well, that is ridiculous. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.200 The lining of a like a sweatsuit. I'll give it 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.800 my wetsuit lining. I got opinions about anything that touches. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.080 My skin touches you. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:02:00.120 We can't just be throwing anything on this. It is 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.440 that's true. It is the integument. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:02.440 It is. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.560 You know, we just recently found the second biggest organ recently, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.880 like in the last ten years, we have another organ 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:10.959 that's all through our body. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.079 Yeah, like the juice. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.480 Yeah, there you go, the juice. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.679 So you know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.600 No, I'm out. That's it for. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:25.079 You, booze that costs more than a used Ford Taurus. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:49.520 What this is ridiculous crime A podcast about absurd and 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.519 outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always ninety nine percent 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.680 murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.799 Damn right. Australia, Yeah, down Under. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.359 I can't stop telling stories about that fabulous land. Man. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.760 Did you know that gambling is legal in Australia? 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.240 I did not, but you know, I'm not surprised Australians 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:20.440 spend more money on online gambling than any other country 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:21.280 on planet Earth. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.680 Really, yeah, why are they not known for this? Almost 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.000 three you never hear about gambling as part of Aussie culture. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:34.600 It is clearly almost three quarters of Australian adults hit 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.720 the tables and machines within like the last twelve months. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:39.960 Wow. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.880 And then more than the tables or machines within a year. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.600 I mean they're going to a place to be. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.160 And then more than a third of Aussi's gambled at 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:54.280 least once a week. Wow, Yeah, I had, there's stuff. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.160 Apparently they're not good. No one else knows about this, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.280 not all, Like, hey, you should ask an Ozzie about that. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.400 All this work on, like trying to counter acts like 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.520 gambling addictions, that stuff. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.040 There's got to be like corrosive. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.840 So there are some really nice like hotel casinos. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.680 There is a lot of money in Australia. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:11.400 Yeah it is. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.680 Everyone is gamming. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.080 Oh yeah it is. Yeah. So I mean think like 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.920 there are Vegas style casinos these places. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.080 Okay, yeah, I'm imagining like the hard rock casino, Like 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:21.480 the Seminoles are like. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.520 Eight hundred hard rock casinos. It's only that's the only 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:26.400 kind that's allowed. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.320 They do they group them together like in Vegas Atlantic 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.560 City kind of, or they're just sprinkled. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.400 Around, sprinkled around? Is my understanding? Correct me if I'm wrong, 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:39.000 I don't know. Obvious one in Melbourne is the Crown 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.920 Casino and it opened in nineteen ninety four right on 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.280 the banks of this river. The whole place there's a 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.159 casino and like three hotel towers and I think like 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.599 a mall. It takes up more than one point five 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.280 million square feet. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:56.000 It's a lot. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.839 It's a lot. It's like two city blocks. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:04:59.320 That's big. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.480 It's the largest casino complex in the Southern Hemisphere. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:04.000 Wow. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.159 And it's also one of the largest in the world. Okay, huge. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.880 Did you know that Keanu Reeves has stayed at the Crown? 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.760 I did? He invited me. I was like, Kean, I can't. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.880 You know who else has stayed there? Your boyfriend Tom Cruise? 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:18.480 Really? 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:19.560 Yes, dude, Why. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.960 Are these guys not? Like they always tell me that 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.680 I'm going to be there. I never believe them. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.000 That's like the place to stay when you're there. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.919 Into motorcycles and gambling. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.920 Tennis stars Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, they stayed there during 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:31.880 the Australian Open. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:32.680 Yeah they never called me. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.320 Yeah they didn't. It's the real deal. It's five stars, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.440 super luck is what you're talking It's fancy pants. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.839 Yeah, this is like Monico. Yeah, that's all five. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.000 Fingers, all four of my fingers. Even so, it has 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:50.080 had its share of controversy. No, so, Chinese regulations wouldn't 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.839 let Chinese citizens transfer more than like a set amount 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.760 of money every year. So in that case, it's like 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.359 fifty thousand US dollars or sixty nine point five thousand 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.520 Australian dollars, is that. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.360 Transfer out of the country. It transferred to Australia, out 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:06.239 of their country. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.720 And into another jurisdic So Section sixty eight of the 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.360 Australian Casino Control Act makes it illegal to provide money 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.000 or gaming chips in a transaction using a credit card 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.760 or debit card, and that's intended to reduce money laundering 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.239 promote responsible gambling. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:25.520 You have to have the cash. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.400 Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like buying lotto tickets here, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:29.000 I get it. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.840 That's hard. You don't want to have people draining their. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.720 Account or put it all on credit. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.240 To do at least one more step. Yeah. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.440 And then Section one twenty four of the Casino Control 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:44.680 Act requires casinos to retain specific accounting records regarding like 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.440 how they handle their money so that the proper taxes 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.040 are all done. Oh yes, Like basically, you can't charge 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.280 something as one thing when it's another. So all three 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:59.080 of those elements came together. The Crown Casino broke all 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.799 those rules. So they were letting Chinese gamblers use something 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.320 called a China Union Pay Bank card or Cup cup 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.720 for gambling purposes, and they weren't using these directly for chips. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.240 They would get phony invoices for hotel services. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:18.600 It's like a credit line kind of thing. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.160 Money would know it would make it look like, oh, 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.800 you paid for six Hamburgers. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.720 Through the hotel, so they're just like going, oh, yeah, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.200 you got twelve. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.040 And then the Chinese gambler would pay the fake bill 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.400 using their I. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.880 Got you and then they would be given the money 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:33.160 for the. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.600 Yeah, and then the staff gives them a voucher they 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.320 can trade it in for casino chips. The head of 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:45.240 Australian Gaming Commission, fran Thorne said quote Crown's cup procedure 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.960 was a covert, purposeful scheme that violated the Casino Control 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:54.080 Act and was also designed to help customers circumvent China's 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.120 foreign currency conversion regulation. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.920 Oh yeah, they're trying to circumvented, at least to government exactly. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.160 So she also pointed out that Crown knew this was shady. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.600 Yeah they call. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:04.360 They still kept it. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.920 They came up away to get around it. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.560 They don't need no stinking regulations and they tried to 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:09.200 cover it up. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:09.680 Okay. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.880 So in all, they processed about one hundred and sixty 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.360 four million Australian dollars in these payments and they made 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.280 like thirty two million off of it. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:21.160 Wow. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.240 Yeah, And so they got busted and they were fined 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:29.440 eighty million Australian dollars for this scheme. Oh wow, And 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.160 it wasn't their only tangle with the Gaming Commission. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.199 Did actual people who are involved actually go to jail 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:36.160 or have to pay fine? 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.840 They just paid fines and that wasn't even their biggest fine. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.000 Oh damn eighty million. So in twenty twenty two they 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.559 got pinched, and this time for a bunch of violations. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.240 And it seems that like for more than ten years, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.760 they were letting patrons gamble for more than twenty four 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.480 hours at a time without a break. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.280 How do you track that though? 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.320 I don't know, but there's apparently this law you cannot 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.439 cannot let someone. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.680 Get you need to go sleep, like you need. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.720 To go get some water. Think about what you've done. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.440 They also were letting gamblers use these plastic picks to 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.240 hold down machine buttons. It's like, you know how you 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.920 see people at like video poker, which the Ausies call 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.200 pokey machines, or like slot machines where there to hit 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:17.680 them all quick. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.679 I've gone to yeah casinas with my family members. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.000 It's that and the picks. They let people play multiple 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.200 machines at a time as well. Yeah, so in twenty nineteen, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.000 the Crown was told, hey, listen, you got to stop 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.040 giving people button picks. This is their you have to 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.040 take steps to make sure that people stop using them. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.680 And there the crowd's like, hmm okay, no they didn't. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.559 And so Franz Thorne, right, she steps up, she said quote. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.080 For a long time, Crown had promoted itself as having 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.920 the world's best approach to problem gambling. Nothing could be 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.600 further from the truth. Like what casinos like, I'm going 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.000 to take care of problem gambling. No, they're of course, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.200 they're like, come hide under my coat. You're refined. Get 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.120 in here. So for those two violations, the extended play 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.320 periods and the pick action, they got two fines. They 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.960 got twenty million for the picks, yeah, and one hundred 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.679 million for the all day play. Wow, that was the 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.840 maximum penalt million. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.160 They got two million in fine. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.760 Tundred million in fines, and the casino they released this 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:27.920 statement quote, we are genuinely remorseful for the failings of 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.000 the past, and we're committed to becoming a world leader 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.720 in the delivery of safe and responsible gaming and entertainment. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.640 The recently appointed new leadership team at Crown is driving 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.400 a whole of company transformation program designed to uplift the 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.160 culture and build a better crown which exceeds the expectation 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.040 of our shareholders. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.680 I love the valley girl who works in the Australian 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:53.480 gaming industry. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.360 Right. They are in cities, They're everywhere. They're so hard 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.000 to get away from. You know, they get these communications, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.520 this degree, they go wing top consulting. Next thing you know, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.760 they're running crowds. See they're like I graduated from Irvine 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.720 and here I am okay. So you know that if 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.040 they were hit with these kind of fines and they 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.360 just kept rolling that they're taking in a ton of 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:22.079 money in every amount. Yeah, casinos are basically money printing operations. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.280 Like there's no way to lose money when you own 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.040 a casino. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.840 Well, some people have found a way, Elizabeth. There's like 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.319 this one guy he found in Atlantic. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.720 City, some guys. Yeah, so they had a crazy stick 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.199 up there was on August twenty it did a crowned. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.000 So people are like, oh, man, I gotta rob that. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.160 They have so much money, let's do this. August twentieth, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:50.240 twenty twenty two. Recently, recently, Thomas Mangoes who made me 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.400 think of that commercial that runs during football. I Am yours. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.199 Mango Bring Back. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.319 He had a pretty serious gambling addiction and he'd been 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:06.520 gambling at the Crown Casino for like sixteen hours. I 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:12.680 have gambling mango problems. Yeah, so he sixteen hour run, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.839 that's insane. Yeah, And at around five am he walks 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.560 up to the cashier in the Mahogany room and he 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.079 pulled out a gun and don't worry, it was a 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.480 toy gun, but the cashier didn't cashier didn't know it. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.560 And he says, give us your hundreds. He tells her, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.840 and the cashier she starts handing over them honeys while mangoes. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.040 He's like shoving the bundles into his jacket, but he's 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.840 like calm, He's calmly doing this, calm the whole time. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.440 What if he was wearing one of those like photographer's vests. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.400 The tourists were all, but he wasn't doing like the 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.400 frandic hand it over. In all, he gets one hundred 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.280 and thirty six thousand dollars in hundreds. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.880 Out of one hundred, had big pocket from a table. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.040 He had from a cashier. Oh right, Yeah, so he 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.640 walks out of the casino, hails a cab and takes 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:04.479 him too. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.360 For he walks out after doing this, huh. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.000 Yeah, walks out, grabs a cab. He goes to Footscray, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.680 which is a suburb of Melbourne. You say, so he 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.800 tips the driver seven hundred dollars, which is like really 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.560 nice of him, but that's not the best way to 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:20.360 avoid attention. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:21.160 Yeah, it's not. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.920 And so from there he goes to Geelong. And this 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.679 is a city on the other end of corey O Bay. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.920 It's like a big city in its own right, not 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:34.760 really a suburb of Melbourne. So in Geelong he checked 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.200 into a hotel under a false NAMEID. Then he shaved 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.400 off his mustache. I forgot to tell you as mustache. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.480 He cut his hair. I forgot to tell you it 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.560 had hair, hair and anyone out and he got tattoos. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.360 So you also forgot to tell me he had no tattoos. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.679 This is exactly why why am how I got all 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.920 my tattoos? Job cover up? 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.840 Seriously, his idea is that he's going to have these tattoos, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.000 and like, clearly I can't be that guy because I've 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.280 got all this press police. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.360 He's really fresh covered up in the plastic. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.880 Don't touch that, it's healing. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.720 He gets all this done, he's a new man. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:10.160 Sure. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.240 He goes to sky City Casino in Adelaide, he says, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.600 and he checked in under a fake name, spent two 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.880 weeks there, and in that time he turned over more 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.440 than a million dollars, but he lost almost one hundred 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.600 and one thousand, so he only has like, wait, out 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.800 of his one hundred and thirty six thousand, he loses 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.440 one hundred thousand, nine hundred. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.000 Dollars, and in the meantime he builds up to a 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.600 million and gets back down exactly. So he makes he's 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.840 got like twenty grand something. He's like exactly. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.880 So, ye, he's left like thirty six thousand dollars September 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.200 twenty seventh. And remember he pulled this job on August twentieth. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.920 He turned himself into police. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.280 He just had to get this jag out. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.040 His defense was that he had PTSD after a video 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.800 shop that he owned since nineteen ninety burned down after 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.920 an armed robbery in nineteen ninety three. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.600 So two decades later, yeah, he's likely also, he's like, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.560 and then seven years after that, my marriage fell apart 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.160 and I got divorced in two thousand and that was 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.160 just all too much for me. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.040 So twenty two years later, I'm going to pull this 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:21.600 weird oh hic. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.440 I had to like act it out, get it out 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.400 of my system. I'm going to wash that pt sest 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:27.240 out of my hair. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.440 You know what, your ghost, You demonstrated remorse. You show 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.080 some shame, and we love shame. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.040 Oh, we do love the shame. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.760 And so he ordered him to serve non parole period 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.200 of three years, basically probation. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.240 So he's just out, just out, just be a cautionary 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:44.480 tale telling people about. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.680 There said quote, all of this behavior endorses the fantasy 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.560 world and surreal nature of the entire event. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.200 So I don't even understand what that means. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.760 There were bigger let's criminal elements at this casino though, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.640 Oh yeah. So in twenty twenty one, so this is 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.560 before the stick up, the Finkelstein Report was released, and 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.640 it's a six hundred and fifty two page document on 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.400 an inquiry into whether the Crown Casino should be able 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.520 to keep its gambling license six hundred pages, six hundred 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.400 and fifty two pages. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.960 And then can you imagine the movie Martin Scorsese can 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.760 make out of that six hundred page report. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.440 I'd love this. It's like an upside down casino. So 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.160 it just ripped into the Crown for all sorts of 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.600 illegal activities. There's a list in the document. I'll give 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.560 you some choice. Once they facilitated millions of dollars of 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:42.240 money laundering. They allowed operators with links to organize crime 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.280 to arrange for junket players to gamble at the casino. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:45.840 Okay. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.120 One of the quotes, for many years Crown Melbourne has 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.960 engaged in conduct that is, in a word, disgraceful. They 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.840 called it illegal, dishonest, unethical, exploitative. They said they have 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:05.560 the catalog of wrongdoing is alarming, but more so because 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.679 it was engaged in by a regulated entity totally. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.440 And when you've gone past litany into catalog, this thing 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:12.240 just goes hard. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.800 And then they bring up the whole China stuff. And 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.280 so the report recommended that they be put under a 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.240 special manager for two years and that would let them 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.480 keep their license to operate, but they'd have to make 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.440 major changes, and they did. They got an all new 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.320 board and senior staff, and then they brought in a 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.200 different inspector to monitor whether the money laundering the loan 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.239 sharking and the drug deals were still going on. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.399 We'll do whatever as long as printing machine running. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:43.120 It looks like they're in full operation right now. Click 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.600 and they might be riding the ship. But they're still 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.600 underwatched from the government, but you wouldn't know it from 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.439 their website. It's business as usual. So let's hold up, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.760 wait a minute for some ads, and do go there 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.080 because I am with it. When we come back, I'll 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.440 explain how the forementioned activities are not the most ridiculous 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:04.400 crimes up in there. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:27.359 Nice all right, Zaron, good eye, Elizabeth. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:28.800 Sorry, I'm getting in the mood. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:35.359 Crown Casino. Crown Casino, So a lot of hanky shesh 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:40.000 has gone down there, and maybe they've been able to 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:40.840 smooth things out. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.680 What I'm saying is, let's give them the benefit of 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:42.960 the doubt. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:48.000 Suomie, Crowned Casino, That's what I'm saying. Here's a quick question. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.840 Apropos of nothing, Yes, I love those. 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That's like 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:21.840 three times is what I was saying. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.520 More than seventeen thousand dollars American today in the Year 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:26.760 of Our Lord twenty twenty four. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.080 I like how generous you were, Like, you were close, Elizabeth. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.000 If the speed limit was twenty five or. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.760 You would have said forty dollars, I would have been like, 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:34.200 you're close. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.879 H You're really close. I was like, imagine if someone's 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.840 going seventy five and a twenty five mile an hour 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.760 like zone, that's how far away I was. It's three 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.199 times more anyway, I mean says this is like. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.439 That's what the most expensive cocktail. It's in the Guinness 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:49.560 Book of World Records. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:50.760 Why is it so expensive? 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.520 I'll tell you it was made on February seventh, twenty thirteen. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.120 It's made is not constantly being made. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.879 By a man named Joel Heffernan. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.920 This is like the biggest cocktail ever made? 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:01.240 Is that? 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.520 It is the Giants swimple? 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.560