Money Machine (2020) - full transcript

Vegas has definitely,
always been a town

that knows how to
make things disappear.

People, money, you name it.

If it's in the way, it's gone.

Growing up in Vegas,
when the mob ran Vegas,

you would see stuff
like car bombings

and people would
just go missing.

When they were gonna do a new

construction site,
or something like that.

So, that's kind of the
way it was out here

growing up in the early 80s.



If you ended up dead
in a ditch in the desert,

it was probably
because you tried

to get in the way of the money.

And in Vegas, that's just
something you don't do.

- My name is Kate Barton,
I'm an attorney

in San Diego, California.

October 1st,
was a struggling point for me.

In 2015, my mom passed away

fairly suddenly, on October 1st.

So, I was just kind of trying
to put that out of my mind.

So we got to the
concert and we were

just having a great time.

There's something
special going on.

There were some
swings and you could



have a great view of the strip.

Oh my God, we're flying now,
oops yay

- My friend and I were
just having so much fun.

Oh my God,
there's the stage.

- But after coming home
from three combat tours,

10 years as a Marine,
my first concert as an adult,

it's like my third time
to Vegas in my life.

♪ Sing God bless America ♪

- There was 22,000 of us
singing God Bless America,

just enjoying the last
night of the festival.

♪ God Bless ♪

- Strangers for holding
hand with strangers,

we were all swaying
back and forth.

And we're just so
thankful to be there,

be part of that night
and have this experience.

♪ Bless America ♪

- And I remember
looking at my friend

and saying,
"I think this is the happiest

"that I've been
since my mom died"

- The lady in front of me said,
"Hey, is that gunfire?"

I said, "Nah,
I think I'd recognise that,

you know, I'm a Marine."

I was being a little cocky,
to be honest with you.

- Then I heard pop pop again,
I said,

"No, that gun fire,
we need to start moving."

- Then I knew
what the sound was,

but I didn't know where
it was coming from.

And then when he
ran off the stage,

that's when everyone realised
something is really wrong.

- The girl in front
of me fell down.

Oh my God.

- The man behind me,
just tackled me to the ground

and yelled,
"It's gunfire don't move."

Hey,
get down, down now.

Oh my God.

- There's in a little
in a the rounds

started ricocheting
all around us.

Behind the hotdog cart.

Stay down.

- I'm thinking terrorist attack,
to be honest.

That was my initial
thought process.

I knew people had to be helped.

- I was going through
this tunnel right here,

turned on my cell phone
and then the echo went like

- The lights went off.

- And I look back to
the girl in front of me

who had initially fallen

and her eyes were
completely blank.

And I realised that
we were both laying

in a puddle of her blood.

- It sounds like it's 20
or 30 feet away from me.

That's when I called my husband

and I told my husband,
I'm not going to make it,

I'm not going to make it,
I love you.

- Gun shots came,
raining bullets all over us,

stay on the ground.

He's shooting
from the Mandalay Bay.

- Felt like I was never
getting away from the bullets.

Move, go.

- I'm gonna die any second.

Hey.

Here, take that.

He shot from the
window of Mandalay Bay.

Let's move, go.

Move that way, now.

Let's move that way, now.

I need.

It's coming
from like eight levels up.

- You can see the fire.

You
can see the blasts

from Mandalay
Bay coming through.

- I didn't know when that
bullet was going to come,

but I almost felt
like it was inevitable.

- I'm down, I got shot.

- Where, where, where, where?
- My arm, my arm.

- All right, move, move,
we got a casualty.

Go, go, move, move.

Just a little nick
big guy, just calm down.

- I was running so fast,
my foot got stuck

on the food truck hitch
and I flew onto my elbows.

And my elbow popped
up out of my arm.

Picked up my arm
and I kept running.

- There, go, go, go, go, go.

- A man, ran up next to me

and said, "As soon as
this stops, you have to run.

"When the bullets stop, run."

And I said, "I don't know where

these bullets were coming from."

As he turned to point in
the Mandalay Bay direction,

"They're coming from over-"

And then I heard it ping

and he fell
backwards into my lap.

And I looked down at his face

and there was a bullet
hole above his eye.

And my hands had just sunk

And it just felt like my hands
were inside of a pumpkin.

And I screamed
and just kept running.

- MGM Live Nation,
had concrete barriers

randomly behind our booths.

So when the crowd
started filtering in,

I got pushed over
the concrete barrier

from the booth
because the people

started tearing down
the big thick walls

for us to get out.

- There's 22,000 people
and we're all trying to get out.

But there not enough exits.

And with the top of the fence,
I just kind of rolled over.

And when I hit the concrete,
I lost consciousness.

- He fired over 1100 pounds.

So, after the final volley,

he picked up the LMT,
fired two additional rounds.

One he fired into the tank area

and then 10 seconds later,
he fired another one.

Picks up the revolver,
walked towards the window

and fired the last round.

- I find another young
lady that was shot

and I put her in the car.

I ended up running
back in and at that point,

a young lady was hit in the eye.

- The next thing I remember
was someone shaking me

and things slowly starting
to come back into focus.

On your feet.

- We finally got into Hooters.

There were bloody
footprints everywhere.

- I get into Hooters and
there was people in there

and they're bleeding
and they're screaming.

And everybody,
it's just complete chaos.

My husband's texting me.

He's following Instagram.

He said, "Shooter
headed towards Hooters."

He says, "Get out."

- At 10:45 about,
we heard a noise,

from directly outside
the exit closest to us,

that sounded like
another volley of shots.

At that point, we all panicked.

The shots sounded very close.

Too close to be
from the same source

as the shooting at the venue.

So, that's when it
really occurred to us,

maybe there's more
than one person involved.

- I remember just following a
big group into the Tropicana,

then running into another room

because somebody said, "They're
coming, they're coming."

And that's what I
ended up in the MGM.

It was like about midnight,

and that's when people
came right into the casino,

screaming like saying
there were shooters

coming after them too.

I sat there crying in
tears and these gamblers

just sat there and
smoked their cigarettes

and just looked at us like,

what's going on here
with these people,

you know, gambling.

- As soon as we got
outside of Hooters,

it was Vegas as normal.

It was like stepping
into a different world.

I was completely
covered in blood

and all down the front of me
and dripping down my legs.

And no one seemed
to notice or care.

It was just, "Oh here's a
customer, she needs a cab,

let's get her into one."

We drove to my hotel,
a woman who was going up

the escalator looked at
me and just turned green

and threw up because I
literally looked like a zombie

who had just come
out of a horror movie,

but it was real life.

The one side of
my face and my hair

was completely soaked with blood

from when the
shooting first started.

And I had laid next
to the girl in front of me

and the rest of my body
was covered in blood.

And what was essentially,

the man who had tried
to help me, his brains

all over the front of me.

I just broke down.

I was hysterical.

I was screaming, I was crying,

I had lost control over
all of my emotions.

And a floor manager
came up to me

and he told me that I
need to calm down,

I was drunk and
that I had spilled,

it looked what he thought
looked like spaghetti,

all over myself, and that I
should go up to my room

and take a nap and change
and everything was fine.

- We ended up making it
out to Henderson hospital.

So waking up at
3:00 a.m. from surgery

and my arm isn't the same.

Couldn't move,
Couldn't move for a week.

And that's all that I
did was lay around,

for like two-and-a-half months.

- Here I am in a wheelchair,

because I couldn't
walk properly.

I had hematomas the size of
baseballs, two on each side.

- I had 10 breaks in
seven different bones.

Three bones in my
right foot were broken

and I had three pretty
serious fractures in my pelvis.

- Good evening, obviously
I'm Sheriff Joe Lombardo

from Clark County,
and I'm here to talk to you

about the tragic event
that's taking place

at the Mandalay Bay.

We determined there was
a shooter on the 32nd floor.

Officers responded
to that location

and engaged the
suspect at that location.

He is dead,
we are looking at an excess

of 50 individuals dead

and over 200 individuals
injured, at this point.

There has been multiple,
multiple phone calls

and accusations or conjecture

coming through social media

that there is multiple
shooters at other resorts

that has been
proven to be false.

- Within less than 12 hours,
he had already

dismissed the possibility
of multiple shooters.

He had already
dismissed the possibility

of it being terrorist related.

- We believe it's a sole actor,
a lone Wolf type actor,

and we have the
place under control.

- This crime scene
included the Mandalay Bay.

It included a venue that was

four times as long
as a football field.

It included the streets
around the venue.

It included what people
had heard at the Tropicana.

There were people
that passed away

as far away as the
street in front of Hooters.

So, I don't know how it
could have been investigated

within less than 12 hours.

- My name is Mike Turber,
I was former intelligence

in the air force, I was a
senior intelligence analyst.

And over the time
that I did that job,

I acquired a certain skillset

that becomes rather useful,
in the type of situation

that I found myself in,
in Las Vegas.

The very first task
that I was given

by the attorneys was
to determine how safe

or how secure their
service elevators were.

- In the aftermath
of One October,

MGM resorts in Mandalay Bay
promised to increase security,

especially around the
guest and service elevators.

- The service elevator is how

the One October
shooter got his weapons

into his hotel room.

Would be very closely
monitored by the hotel,

but perhaps not.

- There's no key required.

I was able to go up and
down those service elevators

at will, without anyone
ever asking me a question.

This is Mike
Turber, making the same trip

through the hallways and
up the service elevator,

something he said
he's done 27 times

since the One October shooting.

Paddock used to transport
his arsenal to his hotel room.

- He actually had help,

with the valet bringing
up the weapons

and into a cart
and up to his room.

- Metro police here in Las Vegas

confirmed a bump stock
was added to the weapons

pictured in those exclusive
photos that I obtained.

- Several images
of Stephen Paddock

were leaked to the media.

- What I can tell you is
I'm very troubled by it.

And we have an
internal investigation

occurring as we speak,

on how those photographs
were obtained by the public.

The source of those
leaked images.

Your department has
worked through the night

to identify all the victims

of Sunday evening's
mass shooting

at the route 91
Harvest Festival.

We have identified
all but three victims.

We still have an active scene

at the grounds
near Mandalay Bay.

- There's a wonderful guy,
his name is Greg Zanis.

He made all of these
white crosses, 58 crosses

and displays them at the
Las Vegas welcome sign.

- I'm planning to put every
name on these crosses.

I'm trying to get every single
photograph on these crosses.

And this just shows everybody,

the severity of
what happened here

as you look down
this row of crosses.

And I'd like to just
show everybody

that we're sick and tired
of murders here in America.

- We talking about the
largest mass shooting

in the history of
the United States.

58 deceased victims.

Directly related to the
One October shooting.

- The fund that the sheriff
and I set up yesterday,

has now surpassed
53,000 individual donations.

That's an excess
of $3.7 million.

- Vegas Strong was a
GoFundMe fundraiser,

that was started by Steve
Sisolak and Joe Lombardo.

Steve Sisolak
running for governor

and Joe Lombardo,
who was running for reelection

for sheriff of Clark County.

- So at this point,
I wanna thank the community,

I wanna thank you for
letting me be your sheriff

and Vegas Strong.

- It's popped up all over since
the One October shooting.

Billboards, posters,
and of course

on the internet as a hashtag,
Vegas Strong.

More than just the phrase now,
a symbol of the city's unity.

- We put the Vegas
Strong up on the building

just to kind of show, you know,
unity with the community

that we are part
of the movement.

Along with a lot of
other local businesses,

we put the Vegas strong
up and we wanted to support

the movement and help
raise money for the victims.

This is the Healing Garden.

This is the garden
dedicated to the victims

of the October 1st shooting.

The school that my kids go to,

had a night where
everybody got to paint a tile

and they brought
it here and they

put them here in
the Healing Garden.

I'm trying to find my tile now.

And here's one
of them right here.

- The healing garden is located
in a nowhere of Las Vegas.

The world Trade Centre,
9/11 Memorial,

is that, you know,
on a river somewhere?

Or is it, you know,
near Central Park?

No, it's on the site
where that occurred.

It's is highly unusual
to have a Memorial Site,

seven miles from the
site of the massacre.

- My first initial
reaction to that,

I felt like it was overdue
for Las Vegas only because,

you know, after 9/11, when
I was still a Motor Sergeant

and a lot of reports came
in that they might be trying

to bring a tanker
truck down the strip

and crash it into something
that would be an easy way

to make a giant explosion,
kill a lot of people,

after 9/11.

So the first time in my life
I ever went down the strip

and I didn't see any taxis,
hardly any cars and no people.

When it's a Saturday and
it should have been packed.

And that went on for weeks.

So they're definitely
aware that if people thought

there was a terrorist attack
being carried out in Las Vegas,

fast and furious.

- Las Vegas emergency incidents.

We were the first
people that report live

from the route 91 concert
through our members

and through one
of our page admins,

they were live streaming
and putting it on our page.

So,
when the shooting was happening

and the first shots were fired,

it was being streamed
live on our page at the time.

So, we actually became
the first people to report it,

you know, through our page
members in the entire world.

We have multiple
reports of multiple shooters

coming in from
all over the place.

- There is radio reports,
but it's, you know,

not like we haven't
gotten false radio reports,

and they turned
out to be unfounded.

And so you can't totally
rely on a radio report.

- I believe I heard a
second shooter at Hooters,

which may or may not be correct,

but that's what I strongly
believe that I had heard.

And I know I
wasn't the only one.

So I called the
Las Vegas police,

and I told them exactly
what my experience was,

including the
fact that I believe

there was a second
shooter at Hooters.

They told me that my
recollection must be incorrect.

Perhaps I had been
drinking too much that night

and that they were not
interested in pursuing any leads

a lone Wolf attack.

And I called the FBI, I told
them the same information,

and they told me,
"You need to stop saying that

there was a second shooter,
that's not what happened."

- I hear the shooting
and then I pan up,

and you can see that stroke.

I thought that was the shooter

right there on the 10th floor.

So, here I am coming up here
and this is where I stopped.

And this is where I was
hearing the shooting.

And of course,
right above is room 134 and 35.

- Most of the shooting that
you hear through your recording,

it sounds fairly distant.

- It seems like it's
coming from up there.

Oh.

- There's one burst
where it's really loud.

There's lots of conspiracies
related to that video.

- Right, that's when I'm going
underneath the portraiture.

- Okay, so you think that
was simply because of

your proximity to where
the shooting was happening.

- The FBI came over
and it was nine days later,

and they said, "Oh,
we're leaving no stone unturned,

and we just wanna let
you know that there was only

one shooter and he's dead."

And I thought, well,
that's kind of weird.

Why did you just tell
me five minutes ago

that you're leaving
no stone unturned,

and really, you know,
looking things up,

and now you're telling me
there's only one shooter.

I think the FBI saw that
people had seen my video

millions of times, and I
had been in some interviews,

and wanted to make sure
that I was telling people

that there was only one
shooter and he's dead.

So, you know what?

Come on back to Vegas,
spend your money.

- The machines aren't
working if you're not pulling

the one arm band and
they're not making no money.

And I think that's
what they're afraid of.

I think they were
afraid of a period of time

where people say it's
not safe to go to Vegas.

- It's been a very,
very difficult time for us.

And as we look
forward to continuing

what our great city does.

We offer a safe place,
this is a crazed lunatic

full of hate, we don't know
much about his background.

- The brother of the
suspect is in town,

we are in contact with him,

along with the other
family members.

- My goal was to
try to help the cops.

I just tried to help
them understand

Steve's psyche better,

and how people like us are,
but we're not normal people.

My dad was on the
10 most wanted FBI list

for nine fucking years.

- The older Paddock
surfaced in Springfield, Oregon

in the late 1970s,
under the Erickson alias,

after escaping from prison
where he'd been serving

a 20-year sentence
for robbing a bank.

- There was no trail.

He's never done all the shit
that your normal dumb fuck

who goes out and
shoot some people does.

Steve was a very smart guy,
I was in business with him

I mean, we ended up with
a bunch of million dollars.

Oh, working our way up from
a duplex in North Hollywood

to 110-unit apartment
building in Meskil, Texas.

He was retired and then lived
playing freaking video poker,

when he was 40 years old.

He started in Reno

because he was a much
bigger fish in a littler pond.

He'd say "Here, here's a
hundred thousand dollars,

"I'm gonna play."

"Here's a nice room for you,

"and blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah."

Whatever they call
their fancy shit club.

He wasn't doing
it to get any richer,

he was doing it 'cause you
get to hang out in the hotel

and it's nice.

And the people bring you drinks,

and they bring you
a nice fat shrimps,

and you get to eat in
really good restaurants.

The goal was to gamble
effectively enough

to pay for all that stuff,
so it didn't cost him anything.

At Atlanta's,
we took over the whole top floor

because he brought my
whole extended family

there for a week, 'cause
he had a bazillion points,

and he knew it was
coming to an end there,

'cause they had started
crunching him down a little bit,

and they pushed him out of Reno

by just cutting off
his comps and stuff.

- There was one place where
the average person could come,

and they were
treated like Kings.

♪ Las Vegas, Las Vegas ♪

- The mob wanted people to fly

to some shit hole in the desert

to spend their
hard earned money.

John and Jane Q Citizen
making $30,000 a year

would come to Las Vegas,
earn $3,000 and lose it.

They got great rooms comped
and they got free drinks.

♪ Las Vegas,
no one does it better. ♪

- Las Vegas was the last resort,

it was like tombstone territory
where old Outlaws go to die.

The mob was real
generous with everything,

they gave the rooms away,
they gave the drinks away.

Just making money
on the gambling table.

Everybody kinda knew
which mobster ran which joint.

- This is the Royal Resort,
now it used to be called

Joseline's Royal casino,
this was my dad's joint.

And we'd come here
and hang out after school,

we'd do our homework at the bar,

unlimited Shirley Temples
and grilled cheeses.

I grew up in a
casino in Las Vegas.

- Food and rooms and all that
was just seen as the service

to keep the machines turning.

And you always felt welcome,
even if you were poor.

'Cause we were all poor
when we walked out the door

for the most part, right?

- You could lose all
the money that you had,

and you'd be comped,
dinners and breakfasts,

and rooms,
and everybody was a high

roller, when they came to Vegas.

You'd come back
here the next year,

and blow all your money again.

- The main crime was skimming.

And the mobsters
protected their turf

to the extent that they
didn't wanna draw attention,

and the street criminals,
drew attention.

So they stopped and
got 'em out of town,

they put them in a shallow grave

over in San Bernardino County.

The old mob didn't
allow street crime.

- When the mob ran that town,

people didn't lock
their doors at night,

it was considered to be
a safe town back then.

- Mobsters were skimming
money off the casinos,

and not paying
taxes on that money.

But in the 1980s,
they started getting caught.

- So you're starting
to see a transition

from the old kind of
mobsters with the bent noses

to suits running the place.

- This is a totally
integrated balanced resort.

- The man who turned up
the wattage in Las Vegas,

is casino mogul, Steve Wynn.

He set off a building
boom in the 1980s

that turned a bunch
of gambling joints

into an international
tourist spot.

Steve Wynn was the reason
why Vegas is the way it is,

he's responsible for it.

When he sold the Golden
Nugget and he built the Mirage,

he changed Las Vegas.

- Tropical setting with
lagoons an atrium, tall palms.

And you can see the showroom
where Siegfried and Roy

are gonna perform.

- Today is a great day,
a dream come true, the Mirage.

- It just exploded.

That's where the
template for the

current Las Vegas
casinos evolved from.

Las Vegas started to change.

- They're getting
rid of the small,

independent owned casinos,

going more into
the corporate world.

Big money was
starting to run the town

as opposed to the
people that lived there.

That's when you started
seeing the implosions,

- All that old stuff
had come down

and all the new
stuff was coming up.

Monte Carlo, Bellagio,
all these new mega resorts.

In the mid 90s,
Las Vegas was going through

this family-friendly phase
and MGM over here,

they decided to
build a theme park

on the back of the property.

- It was starting
to become a place

you could bring your kids to.

And then they realised
all these people here,

spending time with their
kids are not in the casinos.

Tear down the theme park,
build more hotels.

MGM Resorts International
owns over a dozen

of these properties, and Caesars

owns most of the
rest of what's left.

And then outside of that,
you have like the Wynn,

the Cosmo and the Venetian.

Those are owned by other people,
but for the bulk of it,

you just have MGM
Resorts International

and Caesars
basically own all of this.

The corporations
took over Vegas,

and it went from having on
880,000 people in 1990 to

around one-and-a-half
million by the year 2000.

- The population almost doubled,

and the money did a lot more
than double, it just blew up.

MGM started
taking over the town.

They bought the Mirage in 2000

and Steve Wynn took
some of that $4.4 billion

the Mirage sold for
and opened The Wynn.

- I'm Steve Wynn,
and this is my new hotel,

the only one I've ever
signed my name to.

And that's where Stephen
Paddock became a regular.

Frequent visitor
once or twice a month.

He's been staying in
Las Vegas since 06.

So, you know,
we're talking about 11 years.

- I've got a picture
of Steve holding

a $250,000 check
signed by Steve Wynn.

- When Steve came in, they said,

"Oh, we've got your room,
Mr. Paddock."

- Vegas is notorious
for luring you in,

they will give you
the hottest chicks,

they will give you
front row tickets,

they'll give you the meals,
all of that stuff.

- When Mandalay Bay
opened up the second tower,

which was called The
Hotel at Mandalay Bay, 2004.

That's when I
started working there.

Stephen Paddock was well
known on Mandalay Bay property.

Sometimes he was moody,
never mean to any of us

bell people,
just man of very few words.

He was a high limit gambler.

And he would actually come
down and shake our hand

and he was very personable.

And that's when Stephen
Paddock was on a

real good winning streak when
Richardson owned the company.

He would win.

I've got texts from
him where he goes,

they're calling my
name for the fourth time,

I'm sending Mary
Lou up to get the shit

because he got like
five of the six things

in the drawing for a car.

And he had three quarters
of the tickets in the drum.

When he needed to burn points,
he'd go to their store

and buy a bunch of crap,
you know, $350 sunglasses

and $450 watches and
then I'd get a box of shit.

- As long as you got cash,
you get into jets,

you get the dinners,
you're getting the 82 Pertrus,

that's 20,000 a bottle.

- TV's would show
up at my mom's house.

He did kick their ass,
he used to win plenty.

He did very well gambling,
he knew what he was doing.

That all ended,
once MGM bought Mandalay Bay.

Changes came immediately.

We got lights bulbs
for a Christmas gift,

but they taxed us
$17 on our cheque for it,

so it wasn't a gift.

We bought a light bulb
for our Christmas gift.

MGM International tightened up

a whole bunch of
policies and procedures

and they started pinching

the high limit
gambler a little more

and stopped fulfilling comps.

They didn't make
any money on him.

So, what would they do?

They would say, "Oh,
we're sorry, Steve,

but there's gonna be
three X points tonight

from midnight to six,
but you don't get

the three X points."

And then when they broke
the deal, he was pissed.

The deal's a deal.

- They were jerking
them around a lot.

They were lying to
him about his comps.

I've seen this countless
times with other gamblers,

high limit gamblers,
would lose 500,000

and leave pissed off.

So, Mandalay Bay would
have this recovery team.

Man, they put their ChapStick on

and start kissing a lot of ass.

Smoothing things over for him,

losing the amount
of money he lost.

And they would promise
him all these comps.

Free weekend
stay at a nice suite.

And then you got me,
the bell guy goes

in to go get his free room.

And all of a sudden hotel
tower's fully committed,

which means there
aren't any rooms available,

but they can sell
him a upgraded room.

This high limit gambler's
thinking, the casino host

emails me two days ago,
confirming my comps.

I get here and I have nothing

and I've already
paid a hundred dollars

for valet,
I've have given the bell guy,

20 guys to escort me in.

Now I gotta pay extra
$500 for my room.

That's supposed to be comped.

Working as a bell
person for over 13 years,

I saw it continuously thinking

And when they get there,
nothing is comped.

This deceptive practice
comes from the very top.

MGM and Mandalay Bay,
they definitely

wanna hide all these
tricks they pull on gamblers.

They're there to make a winner,
a loser.

- He wasn't as
successful in gambling,

as he had been
in previous years.

A substantial
portion of his wealth

had diminished and
that could have been

a contributing factor.

When you blow your
cash in Vegas, you go from

Mr C, Mr. P, Mr. G,
to get the fuck out.

They don't want
you to know more.

You're cast aside.

As soon as you blow your cash,

you can't get a
fricking French fry.

- Steve gambled $1.6
million at the Mandalay

in the week before he did this.

And I've got the last
four years of his W-2 Gs.

I've got tax records
that show that

when he came in at the Mandalay

and they wouldn't give
him the room he wanted,

he said he sat down and
gambled a million dollars.

So they'd give him
the room he wanted.

Violence behind gambling losses,

is not something
that doesn't happen.

He was really, really angry
with the gaming industry.

- I think he wanted
revenge for the money

he lost at Mandalay Bay.

To leave MGM
international at full.

- He's still got two houses.

He's got all these
guns and ammo.

I mean, this is not some guy

that lost a million dollars

and decided to go home
and pack up his guns.

He planned this.

For us to release a timeline
and today, we have one.

10:05, the first shots
fired by the suspect.

10:17 officers arrive
on the 32nd floor.

10:18 security officer
tells the LVN PD officers,

he was shot and gives the
exact location of this room.

11:20 officers entered
the suspect's room.

They observed the
suspect down on the ground.

- This just in,
MGM says that Metro's timeline

of the shooting is not correct.

- I am very well aware
of the MGM statement

provided yesterday.

I agree with their statement.

It's the timeline
associated with

the original shot and
Mr. Campos has changed.

- Metro now says Campos
was shot closer to 10:05,

aligning with the MGM's
timetable released yesterday,

not the six minute gap given
earlier this week by police.

- Jesus Campus
was given an amount

somewhere in the neighbourhood

of $300,000 for his silence.

He was also gifted two condos

and those come to the tune
of about $2,500 a month each.

So, that's $5,000 a
month that is gifted to him

in the form of a residence.

And that came about the time

that he was supposed
to be on five different

television shows,
doing interviews.

- Suddenly he
cancelled shortly before

the interviews were to occur.

Instead, he just showed
up on the Ellen Show,

with a cane and a limp.

- He shot through this door,
right?

- Yeah, from behind the door.

I don't know how
he was shooting.

- Out of all the
investigative reporters

that we have that could
ask hard questions.

I mean, Ellen DeGeneres,
who happens

to have a whole
line of slot machines

that are sponsored
by the MGM resorts.

- Wow, so and I mean,
it really, he saved your life

and he saved also the woman
that came out of the door

and came to the hallway.

- You stopped everything and
MGM Resorts and Mandalay Bay

did everything right.

She just threw him
soft balls and it's like,

- There was a metal bracket
holding the door in place.

- Right, so what we're
talking about here,

Okay, so-

- That's the only damn interview

that he did was
on a TV talk show.

- You just want this to be over.

So, you're talking about it now

and then you're not
gonna talk about it again.

- And she had
managed to keep him

out of contact with any media.

And they made sure that instead

of hearing the
facts from his mouth,

we heard the facts
from their mouths.

- And tonight,
we are getting a better idea

of what may happen to the
One October shooting site.

- MGM resorts in Metro
are reportedly talking about

the construction
of a SWAT building,

on a portion of that site.

- You would think it'd be a
conflict of interest to give

the police department
that's investigating

you such an enormous gift.

- The area known
as Las Vegas Village,

is valued at about $38 million.

- We know we're
under investigation by

you guys,
but we're just gonna give you

this humongous gift that's
worth over $30 million.

- This entire event
and investigation

happened in an election year

where Joe Lombardo
was campaigning

to continue to be the sheriff.

He raised over
a million dollars.

- You have Las Vegas
Boulevard stand up

and say, "This is where
we're gonna put our money

because this is who
we want to have elected."

- And then they go
more than a million dollars

into sheriff, Joe Lombardo.

So nobody else is gonna win

if they try to run behind them

because there is a power
machine behind them.

And it's the gaming industry.

All the hotels want him
because he's gonna do

what they tell him to do.

That they're unsafe by
staying at one of our hotels.

- I stopped even watching
the press conferences,

because I felt like
they were a farce.

I felt like they weren't
giving us any information.

It was an election year
and it was just camera time

for Lombardo and his friends.

- I wanna thank sheriff Lombardo

for your leadership
and leading us

through this terrible,
terrible day, thank you.

- Thank you, appreciate that.

Thank you sheriff, I wanna first

off begin by
thanking the sheriff.

- Oh, they were
fighting each other, man.

The camera lens
wasn't wide enough

to get all these
people in front of it.

- Mainly were trying
to stay out of the way

because you don't want to turn

a personal tragedy
into a political event.

- Almost every press conference,

you saw one figure and
that was Steve Sisolak.

You didn't see
Governor Sandoval there.

You didn't see even Carolyn
Goodman, the Mayor there.

But you always saw Steve
Sisolak in the background.

He was on every
national television set,

getting face time,
using this as a springboard

for his political campaign.

But Steve Sisolak,
will fight for Nevadan women.

- So, I support totally the
women's right to choose.

- And you had
politicians grand standing

on this Vegas Strong movement.

Used it as an
elevator to get elected.

And then they weren't
following through with it.

- I'm a journalist with
the Las Vegas Tribune.

And I tried reaching out

to the Vegas Strong
Resiliency Centre.

Couldn't get anybody
on the phone.

They wouldn't answer emails.

I couldn't get any answers
on where this money had gone,

if the money had gone anywhere,

- I was told I was
gonna get back

a certain amount of money.
And I didn't, you know.

My kids suffered,
they didn't get a Christmas.

My son's birthday followed up.

He didn't get any
birthday presents.

And it was definitely a
rough rest of the year for me.

I felt helpless and
there was nothing

I could do to support my family.

It's definitely taken a toll

in changing my life as a mother.

And I felt like I
let my kids down.

I do,
I feel like I let them down,

but they understand
and they get it.

And thankfully my kids are very,
very great.

They're amazing
children and they get it

and they're still there for me.

There's a lot of broken people

that haven't got the
help that they needed.

My manager's daughter was there.

She was injured,
she had to go back

into a wheelchair
after it happened.

She couldn't stand up for work.

She was a chef at the
SLS and they fired her

'cause she couldn't work.

She lost her home,
she got a divorce.

- You see, they got the
Vegas Strong on the firetruck.

Then you got medic West.

The whole town was all in
and we all got bamboozled.

- But I went up to get coffee

in the window of Dunkin' Donuts.

And they were selling
Vegas Strong t-shirts

out of the window.

- The people that
were victimised

continue to be victimised

because they have
not received the funds.

I couldn't provide
for my family anymore.

We lost everything, you know.

My kids didn't wanna be home.

I had no cable, no money,
and I had no Christmas,

I had nothing.

My daughter didn't wanna be home

because I was self medicating.

I was heavily drinking
and I would never, ever

allow myself to behave that
way ever prior to October 1.

I'm okay, one minute and the
next thing you know, I'm not.

It can be any little thing
that can just trigger it.

And I texted my sister, bye
and she just told me to pray.

And to just hang in there.

It's not anything, you know,

you'll never know what
happened back there.

And you will never know

this feeling that I feel,
you know, it's dark.

And I said, "Bye."

And I turned off my phone.

Then 15 minutes later, and
somebody was banging on my door.

The cops came and they
admitted me into the hospital.

And I got put on this
mid-level 2000 suicidal hold

at St. Rose,
just wanted to end my life.

And it's just so hard, when
I see pictures at home,

they're not home.

It's hard, there's been
zero help at all.

Nobody wants to do anything.

I've reached out
for help, many times.

- Sisolak started a GoFundMe.

You promised, to
account for every penny.

Millions donated from
people all over the world.

Money unaccounted for
the Vegas victims shooting.

There's never been
any distribution lists

for the Vegas shot funds and
who's receiving what money.

- Our media is pretty
silent about the whole thing.

They're letting
people forget about it.

And I don't think we're willing

to let people forget about that.

- There's always somewhere
that a politician can blame.

And Sisolak will say that
while I was the fundraiser,

but I'm not responsible
for distributing.

Well, the hell you're not.

Because if you're not
going to distribute the money

to the victims,
why collect it?

I think the community saw
October 1st as a tragedy,

but Sisolak, he saw
it as an opportunity.

- Every time there was an event

that involved Vegas Strong,

he was there walking around,

making certain that
he got face time.

That it never showed before.

And I'm really proud,
with Las Vegas.

- I saw him jumping
in front of cameras

to show his support
and to be real emotional

about this horrific
tragedy that happened.

But I didn't see him
dispersing any money.

He collected a lot of money.

- He raised over $10 million.

And here it is on my building.

It's over 10 feet long and
it's up there on main street.

I've been a business owner

in downtown Las
Vegas for over 10 years.

And I just, I love my community.

And I don't know
where that money's at,

but it's not getting to
the people that need it.

If the victims
aren't getting it,

the victims are
missing their rent,

they're missing their
mortgage payments.

- Eventually the
funds were distributed,

but they weren't
distributed at the time

that the people needed it.

They needed
those funds early on.

That's when the
bills are racking up,

that's when the rent's due,

the car payments due,
the insurance is due.

That is when they
needed the help.

They didn't get it.

While the

Campaign raised
over $10 million,

less than $20,000
were distributed

to the victims in
the first five months.

And that's kind of when
it became clear to me

that it was just
another campaign,

it was just another
slogan to make people

see the city in the
best light possible.

MGM emailed me
shortly after the shooting.

And they said that they
realised what happened

that night was horrible.

And they'd like to
offer me a 10 % coupon

on my next day at
one of their properties,

because obviously a 10 %
discount in a hotel room

is going to just make
everything go away

and make all the
victims forget the hell

that we suffered
through that night.

- Sheriff, when did he
check into the hotel?

And what date did he
check into the hotel?

- To the best of
my recollection,

we have information on the 25th.

I had told you
previously, the 28th,

You got the timeline
changing three times

only because people
were calling out things.

- ...That have been obtained
from the valet security system.

- Ma'am, that's not how we
conduct this service, okay?

If I'm presented
with a question.

- Timeline change?
Because the FBI...

- That's not how I conduct
press conferences, ma'am.

- Well have the
official timelines changed.

- Please stop
asking your question.

- He got really angry,

and that lady was never
allowed in the room again.

- And then shortly after
they did change the timeline

that matched the independent
journalist's findings.

- Sometime late October,

I was here, and I noticed that
there's a camera right here,

mounted on the
outside of this business.

And I was wondering,

if that actually
caught any of the

footage from people
coming through here.

So I asked if I could
take a look at it,

and see if I could
access the information.

And next thing you know,
the video's on Fox news.

- Two men drag
would appears to be

a fallen victim
into the parking lot.

The business owner
who possesses this tape,

or even asked to see it.

- You would think
that the LVMPD,

and the FBI would want
every piece of evidence,

that they could possibly
get their hands on.

- We have hundreds of agents,

covering every facet
of this investigation.

Nothing will be overlooked.

Sheriff Lombardo promised
a comprehensive investigation

into leaked images of the
Stephen Paddock crime scene.

And we still haven't
received the results of this

comprehensive investigation.

So I decided to call into
a radio show in which,

Sheriff Lombardo was
answering questions.

- You have a department
with over a $600 million budget,

yet they couldn't figure out who

leaked images from a cell phone.

Imagine that.

In my opinion, sheriff
Lombardo is lying.

And it's certainly
not the first lie,

Or the first time he's
deceived the public.

- Is Las Vegas a safe community?

Yes.

Is it a safe tourist community?

Yes.

- During Sheriff Lombardo's
reelection campaign,

a violent crime rate
report was released,

which showed that
the violent crime rate

in Las Vegas had been reduced.

When in fact it didn't
take into account,

the 58 that we lost
during 1 October.

And there was also
two other homicides

that it also didn't
take into account.

So you had 60
homicides that were

not included in this report.

So the crime rate
actually was the highest,

in Las Vegas history.

If you include the 60 that
they so conveniently left out.

- My name's Doug
Poppa, former police officer,

Deputy Sheriff and
Criminal Investigator.

I spent about 20 years
in the casino industry,

as a director of security.

And I'm also a journalist.

SWAT officer Levi Hancock
got on the radio and said,

"We have an
accidental discharge."

But none of that
was released publicly.

Joe Lombardo didn't say anything
about the accidental discharge.

So I broke the story
about a month later,

in the Baltimore Post Examiner,

then they later
came out and said

there was an
accidental discharge.

- It kind of exposed
the fact that he hadn't

been entirely truthful
with the public.

And that was when a lot of
people started asking questions,

about why we weren't
being given the whole truth.

Accidental
discharge, excuse me?

- Casinos tell him, you know, to
jump, and he asks how high?

- 'Cause he's a paid puppet.

He's a liar.

- There is no conspiracy
between the FBI,

between LVMPD, and the MGM.

Nobody is attempting
to hide anything.

Yeah, can't trust this.

- When you try to hide it, it
breeds conspiracy theories,

it breeds people
saying, why is he lying?

He's a liar, they're covering
this up, covering that up.

If there was a conspiracy,
it was conspiracy

to cover up negligence
and incompetence.

Even one of the stories
even the title was,

is Joe Lombardo a liar,
incompetent, or both?

The word incompetence
has been brought forward,

and I am absolutely offended
with that characterization.

Shut the public out
of the information,

and the story just
started to go away.

And then shortly after that,

you get the radio encryption
where the public's no longer

allowed to listen, to the
police scanners out here.

- On January 23rd,

the Las Vegas Metropolitan
Police Department,

blocked the public's
ability to listen,

to what's happening in the city.

- They were getting called
out on a daily basis for

the inconsistencies, and
they kept changing the stories.

And I think probably
all of that was based on,

the fact that people
could check up

by listening to the radio.

You can compare
it to the stories,

you could see for yourself that

they weren't telling the truth.

Decrypt the police scanners.

Those are our public airwaves.

- Major news outlets
have filed lawsuits,

asking law enforcement
to turn over police records

This is according
to the LA Times,

which is one of the plaintiffs.

- Over a half a dozen
media outlets got together,

put a lawsuit
together to sue

the Las Vegas Metropolitan
Police Department,

over them refusing to
release these documents

that the court ordered
them to release.

- The Supreme Court
ruled that all information

was supposed to be
given out immediately.

So Sheriff Lombardo
decided to charge,

nearly half a million dollars
to get this information.

Another legal
manoeuvre on his part

to delay the release
of the information.

- A Las Vegas
judge has ruled that

Las Vegas Metro Police can
not charge the media high fees,

to get records on the
1 October shooting.

At the behest of
the court system,

we were mandated to provide
body worn camera footage,

and document footage as part of

a public information request.

- The Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department

started releasing data,
but only bits at a time.

Sheriff Lombardo cherry
picked which information

he wanted to have come
out before the election,

and which information was going

to come out after the election.

- And there's not the
new sheriff in town.

- I'm going to declare victory
at this point, all right?

Joe Lombardo was
reelected as Las Vegas

Metro PD's sheriff
in June of 2018.

It wasn't until after that,

that he chose to release
videos of his officers

cowering in the hallway outside
of Steven Paddock's room

instead of immediately entering
to stop the possible threat,

of more people being shot
out of that hotel room window.

Newly released video
shows Las Vegas police

waiting in the hallway at
the Mandalay Bay hotel,

continues to murder
people below.

- Holy fuck.
- He shot his gun.

Oh my God.

He got shot through the leg

- People were getting killed,

and this coward
stayed on the 31st floor,

and not one attempt was
made to reach the 32nd floor.

- Lives could have been saved
if they had taken action.

Absolutely.

They had a team of armed
individuals that did nothing

but cower while the
shots were going on.

- 58 people died that
night and the coward cop

who could have done something,

they fire him, but they
don't tell anybody about it.

I found out about it,

and I did the story on it.

There were about 30 police
officers with shotguns and ARS,

and all kinds of
handguns, and they sit,

for over an hour
on the 32nd floor.

- SWAT entered the room 11:20.

- One of the SWAT officers

discharged his
weapon in the room.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

They went into the room,

and they completely
destroyed the crime scene,

which is something you don't do.

But they turned
over Paddock's body,

they ransack the room.

That goes against any
standard police protocol,

anywhere in this country.

- They handled the crime scene

like a bunch of
incompetent boobs.

Because they compromised
the biggest crime scene

in American
history at that point.

- Lombardo never
brought this out,

until I broke the story,

and was followed up by
some news media after.

- He would not have won
the election, in my opinion,

had this information
been released,

in the time frame it should
have been released.

- In the footage that the
LVMPD was forced to release,

you have these body cam videos,

where you hear
officers directly saying,

turn your cameras off, make
sure your cameras are off.

- Why do you not want what's
about to happen to be on video?

It's one of the
many crazy things

I think there's something
more to this shooting,

than what's been disclosed.

You've got police officers
that say that they heard

gunshots from
different locations.

- I'm telling you right now
there's more than one shooter.

Dude, we saw multiple muzzle
flashes coming out that window.

- Are you sure it
wasn't just one?

- No, because it was
two distinctive sounds.

- Hey, somebody said there
could be as many as three.

- We're getting about
10 shots per second,

during that interval,
which would be

about twice as fast
as my observation

of what an individual
could pull a trigger manually.

So this would be consistent with

a gun that has the bump stock.

The gunshots themselves are all

very similar in their amplitude.

There seemed to be these
volleys of many, many shots,

and then a gap of
some number of seconds

before the shooting
starts again.

- There's gun shots right here.

- Stephen Paddock
fired 13, 14 volleys.

- Why would there be
instances during the volleys

where it would stop shooting?

If you have multiple shooters,

there's no reason
to stop shooting.

- They would be
firing simultaneously,

and there would be
overlapping volleys

of these different shots.

And so we would
expect the recordings

would have a barrage
of overlapping gunfire,

rather than these
distinct individual shots.

The fact that we've got
the architectural features of

Las Vegas with the
different buildings nearby.

Lots of concrete and
sidewalks and so forth,

that tends to lead to a lot
of acoustical reflections.

And so the recording of a gun,

fired in that
environment is going to

have lots of this
reverberation present.

It's like a sound wave
going across the venue,

and then bouncing
off of a building.

So it sounds like it's
coming from two directions.

- That can sound like
there's many more shooters,

just because you're
hearing one sound,

echoed several times from
these different surfaces.

- I gotta go, there's
more people.

- Go, go, go, go, go.

- People were saying there
were shootings down the strip.

What was really happening,
was someone was in a hotel,

and some person ran in
with blood all over them,

and someone asked
him, what happened?

And they said there
was a shooting.

Next thing you know,
they're calling 911,

there's a shooting at
New York, New York.

- And there's a
shooting at Bellagio.

- There's a shooting
at Tropicana.

- All because these people are
interpreting what they're seeing

as a shooting happening right
then and there in front of them.

When it's just a person
running in the door,

that's bloodied from
running from this event.

- The officers don't
know what's happening.

- They're trying to
investigate and find out

what's going on, and if somebody
runs up to them and says,

hey, you know, there's a
shooting at the Tropicana,

or there's something going
on at New York, New York,

they're not in a position to
judge how valid that claim is.

They're going to have
to now report that back.

- I've gone through the
recordings and observed

the characteristics
of the wave forms,

and from the examples
I've looked at here,

there is a single shooter
involved in this incident.

I have uncut footage
from 7:00 a.m. that morning

until 12:00 p.m. the next day,

from six different
camera angles.

The attorneys asked me to
analyse this footage for them.

I can zoom in on any of
these camera views that I want

plus combine that with
all the audio footage

that I've gotten off of all
of the cell phone cameras

The shooting happened
from one location

right there, from
that room right there.

I'm 99 % sure, that
Steve did this by himself,

completely and totally.

Accumulating the guns,

getting the guns in the hotel.

He tipped some
kid a hundred bucks,

and he took 'em up
on a little gold trolley.

- When you fire a weapon,
what you're doing is

you're causing a minor
explosion inside of a barrel.

So, that minor explosion
inside the barrel creates

transferred out into the barrel.

Then you can see that the
curtain just because of the

ejected casings or
possibly him leaning

the rifle against it
actually was burned.

That's what's going to happen,

when you put that many
rounds through a barrel.

A hundred rounds
through a barrel is gonna

heat it up enough to
where you can't touch it.

That's why he's wearing gloves.

So the most efficient
way to handle it,

instead of changing out barrels,

is to change out weapons.

It's a lot more expensive,
but he had the money,

he spent over $100,000
in weapons alone.

So Steven, when
he fired the weapons,

he would expend
all the ammunition,

drop the weapon
into a makeshift pit

that he had in the
middle of the room.

And then he would start
firing again with a new weapon.

- This is AR10,
that Paddock used,

shooting at the fuel tank.

Fuel tanks are
made to take abuse.

We're shooting at 50 yards here,

and you can't put
a dent in that steel.

So imagine a thousand yards,

trying to penetrate
a piece of steel.

This is gonna be the AR15.

All right, this is
gonna be the one that

he shot the people with.

See how fast and
accurate you can be.

Really super easy to shoot.

Doesn't take much skill.

Having an outdoor open venue

with that many
people in one location,

fences all around it.

They're kind of
corralled in there.

Yeah, they're sitting ducks.

I mean, it was like
shooting fish in a barrel.

- The FBI put out a three
page comprehensive report,

I've had in custody

petty larceny reports that
were over three pages.

That was a misdemeanor offense,

with one person being arrested.

I can't tell you,
the absurdity of that

from, if you look at when
Parkland had their shooting

at the Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School,

where 17 kids were murdered.

They put out a 400 page
comprehensive report.

And they studied every
aspect of that thing

to prevent it from
happening again,

to find out what
things were missed.

- These are the things
you could slam on the desk.

You know what I mean?

It caused an earthquake.

But this is just
a little pamphlet,

you know, just
a hey, this is it,

we're done, goodbye, go away.

- If they don't do a
proper investigation,

then it could happen again.

And that's what
makes people less safe.

- When Sheriff Lombardo
holds his final news conference,

there are less than a handful
of reporters who show up.

Small crowd today.

- The Vegas shooting went
from being the biggest casualty

event of the year to being a
small news conference set,

that even the local
journalists didn't show up for.

- Today, we will release
our final criminal investigative

report on the 1 October
mass casualty shooting.

I know and believe there
was only one suspect,

who killed 58 people and
injured hundreds more.

We have considered as
investigation complete.

I hope that the conclusion
of this investigation

provides some answers
and some closure.

What we have been able
to answer are the questions of

who, what, when, where, and how.

What we have not been
able to definitively answer

is the why Stephen
Paddock committed this act.

- They have to say no motive

Hey, you
know, and because

that's not really good
for business, I don't think.

And now it's part
of this spin machine.

- The actual cover up
was their incompetence

and their negligence
in the handling

of the investigation.

The destruction of the crime
scene, turning over his body,

ransacking the room before

the crime scene
analysts went in there.

- Then you have the accidental
discharge in Paddock's room.

Then they tried
to cover that up.

The fact that it
took over 70 minutes

to get into Paddock's room.

And that the officer that
could've stopped it all,

basically chickened out.

There's nothing justifiable
about what he did.

Stephen Paddock was a monster.

But what do you call a company

that sues the victims
in a case like this,

where 58 people died.

- MGM resorts is
suing the victims

of last year's mass
shooting in Las Vegas,

claiming that it
has no liability

for the deadly attack.

MGM is asking a judge to dismiss

any lawsuits against it,

stemming from the
October 1st shooting.

I was just, you
know, I was like,

why the fuck would
they sue the victims,

that were just there during
a concert in their property?

They were getting shot
at from a hotel room,

that's a part of their property.

- Now they are being sued by
one of the largest companies

in America for getting shot.

- Shameful,
disgusting, outrageous.

Those are some of
the common words

people used along
with a

as it was trending on Twitter.

- In more than 30
years of practise,

this is the most reprehensible
conduct I've ever seen

by a defendant.

- MGM says in part quote,

"Years of drawn out
litigation and hearings

the community, and
those still healing."

- That is the biggest,
fattest lie I've ever heard.

- If you make the public
think that you're suing people

or their families who are
dead or seriously injured,

to me, that's a PR disaster.

- As an attorney,
I tried to look

than maybe a lot of victims do.

The MGM legal
strategy heavily relied

upon a Federal Act that
was passed shortly after 9/11.

It's called the Safety Act.

And the Safety Act states that

that private
company is not liable

for what happened
at the terrorist attack,

as long as they have
hired a security team

that has been
previously approved

by the Department
of Homeland Security.

Many people have
filed suit against MGM.

Instead of having to fight each
of these lawsuits individually,

MGM decided to file one lawsuit

against all the people
that had sued MGM

and all the people that
MGM thought would sue MGM

and make a statement
that they were not liable.

Who were at fault here.

They not only named
the estate of people

who were killed that
night and victims,

but they also named the children

of people who
were killed that night.

Some as young as age six.

So, they sued six year olds,

in an effort to
clear their name.

The brief literally stated
that, we the victims

who were affected by this
who were injured by this,

who were killed by this,
remained in the line of fire.

We were inside MGM's venue.

The venue that didn't
have enough exits.

The venue where bottlenecks

at those few exits
were occurring.

The venue in which they
have shone a spotlight on us,

so that he had a better view.

The venue where I
watched a woman die

long before she knew that
there even was a line of fire.

She didn't even know that
a shooting was going on.

And now her parents are
told, "Oh, your daughter's dead.

Well, it was her own fault.

She remained
in the line of fire."

MGM and Mandalay Bay
claimed that they didn't know

that this could happen.

Yet years prior, Mandalay
Bay had discovered

A guest had brought many guns.

He was aiming those
guns down the strip.

Thankfully he was stopped.

And the fact
that in their brief,

they say they had no way
of knowing, is a pure lie.

Just goes to show
how much disregard

they have for the victims of
what happened on October 1st.

- On October 1st of 2018,
the one year anniversary,

MGM had said that they were
going to darken the marquees.

You could come out and
have a candle if you want

and memorialise
the fallen, you know.

It was a one year anniversary.

So, I'm out there and
I'm live on Facebook

and from the Mandalay
Bay and we're waiting

and waiting and waiting.

There's all these
other people around me

and they didn't do anything.

Layering on the music,
was this real upbeat song,

happy and you know,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was like, "God,
what kind of slap

"in the face is this?"

Day's
after the city marked

the somber second anniversary

of the Route 91
Festival shooting,

there's a settlement between
victims and MGM resorts.

- They were trying to hide
behind the Safety Act.

An Act in which the
Federal Government,

would have actually paid
out all of these claims.

And because it wasn't
ruled a terrorist act by the FBI

or Homeland Security, they
couldn't use the Safety Act.

This settlement will
provide fair compensation

for thousands of
victims and their family.

Las Vegas lawyer,
Robert Eglet of Eglet Adams

represents about 2,500 of
the 4,400 victims in the case.

- The total settlement
amount is expected

to be approximately
$735 to $800 million.

Now as stated and this
needs to be made clear,

MGM Resorts has insurance
coverage for $751 million.

- MGM is only on the
hook for about $49 million.

That's a slap on the wrist.

- What MGM has done
here through this process

and through this
mediation represents

the highest standard
of corporate citizenship

I have ever seen.

Last year, I was
the loudest voice

in the country saying
negative things about MGM

when they sued a
number of the victims.

In more than 30
years of practise,

this is the most
reprehensible conduct

I have ever seen by a defendant.

- Robert Eglet, attorney
for over 2,500 claimants

in this case, stated that
the $800 million settlement

would be good for everyone.

But what he didn't say is that

he stands to get over a
hundred million dollars

in this case, making
him the true winner.

- And as a lifelong
Nevadan, I cannot tell you

how proud I am that
MGM is a Nevada company.

They have made me
the most loyal customer

they'll ever have.

- And now they're the
most wonderful corporation

he's ever seen.

And he went from
their largest critic

to becoming their
biggest ass kisser.

Is he their lawyer or ours?

Because he sure as
hell wasn't acting like it.

- Keeping this out of the courts

by settling with the victims,

allows MGM to hide
the fact that their greed

and incompetence may
be part of why this happened.

They were the ones
with the terrible security,

allowing him to take 20 plus
weapons up into the room.

Their inactions is what
caused a lot of the deaths

that we see in this case.

The failure on the security,
failure on surveillance...

The former MGM
director of surveillance

told me over 200 cameras
were off at the time

in the Mandalay Bay shooting.

October 1st, Mandalay Bay

had over 200
cameras not working.

- It's security negligence,

cameras were out,
they were untrained

in some of the equipment
and the protocols

and how to do the
different systems.

And that came out in
their reports to the police.

And I did stories on that.

So, there was no way this
was gonna go to a courtroom.

That's why they
agreed to the settlement.

I think that there
was a clear intent

that this would
never go to trial.

And I had a problem with that

'cause from day one, I said,
"The truth needs to be told."

- If we did go to trial,
all of this would come out

and that's exactly
what they didn't want.

They chose Jennifer Togliatti.

This is a judge who
stepped down a year early

from her retirement
to actually go work

for a company called ARM.

And when she goes to work there,

what is their first case
that she's handed?

Oh, wow, look, it's an MGM case.

And who is her father?

MGM's Vice President,
Head of Security,

Safety and Surveillance.

None other than
George Togliatti.

There is a conflict
of interest there

because her dad
is the VP of Security.

Instead of going that one
more year for retirement.

Judge Togliatti, I
believe, was brought in

to save MGM and
her father's ass.

How did they not say,
"We should not do this."

They didn't do it because
they wanted the fix in.

Period, the end.

The fix has always
been in in Vegas.

That's what they do.

It's ridiculous.

It can only happen in Vegas.

- Las Vegas is a big facade.

The whole city is an illusion.

And the person that's getting

in the way of the
illusion of selling this case

to the American
public, is Roger Kenis.

This is a claimant
who actually ran back in

and tried to save
the lives of others.

And this is a slap in his face.

And he pulled out
of the settlement.

He is the single person that
we know of that opted out.

We never even got the damn
truth and that's all I wanted.

That's why I opted out.

Because no amount of
money is gonna buy the truth.

And somebody had
to stand up to 'em.

People need to be
held accountable,

so this can never happen again.

- It's a twisted, twisted
tale of corruption in Vegas.

- It's an incestuous thing
that happens in Vegas.

They all protect each other
like brothers and sisters.

This case should have
been in the billions.

- You have a case
of someone trying

to put on the illusion
that everyone is happy.

Were the lawyers
and MGM and that's it.

The take was $800
million and divided up

with around 4,500 people.

And it's not a lot of money.

Neither is the 49
million that MGM,

a corporation who grosses
over 10 billion a year

has to actually pay
out out of pocket.

So MGM won.

But the victims
in this case lost.

- I do love my town,
but I'm starting to see

the reality of things
since October 1st

on what Vegas really is.

- After you lived
there a little bit,

you start seeing the
dark side of Vegas,

the sinister side of Vegas,

and it has nothing to do
with cocaine and hookers.

It has to do with all the greed.

- I had been at
the City Hall, parked,

and I saw a bunch of
what looked like sticks

behind a screen of a fence.

So I went over there to look,

and it was the crosses from
the Las Vegas massacre.

There were thrown in
a giant pile in the sun,

behind a dumpster.

And that's where
they sit all year.

And then Greg
Zanis comes into town

and he displays them at
the Las Vegas welcome sign.

Today's the second
year anniversary

and I'm down here
letting these families know

that I remembered...

This year, what happened was

the County asked him
to move all the crosses

to be displayed
for only two hours

at the County Government Centre

where no one would
have ever seen them.

And they only wanted
them displayed for two hours.

- It's the right thing to do

to spend one full
day out of my life,

to remember what happened
to here two years ago.

- He didn't back down.

He decided that he
was going to display

the crosses on the astro turf.

And then the County came in

and said that they thought

it was a pedestrian
safety issue.

- And as you see, there
goes one of the crosses,

their families are taking them.

And that's why I'm here.

We're gonna try to give
all of these out today.

- And they want it to
go away and it shouldn't.

We should never let those
crosses be forgotten.

Nobody wanted the
1 October event to happen.

But when it did, I
think there's people

who found a way to
make it work for them.

To turn a tragedy
into an opportunity.

1 October was almost
like a show, a Vegas show.

And once the stars of that
show got what they wanted,

they didn't care anymore
and neither did Vegas.

Keep the money
dropping off the tables,

keep the slot machines going

and keep the registers ringing.

- $50 billion worth of tourism

that comes into our community.

The hotels are full, the
occupancy rate is great,

the prices are reasonable,
nothing's better than Las Vegas.

- It is hot here, is
all I can tell you.

We just are trying to keep
having enough cranes out there.

Labourers, carpenters,
we're just booming.

- Steel on the Raider stadium

is like four months
behind on construction,

waiting for more steel
to be forged in China.

That's how crazy
it is, you know.

The world can't
produce steel fast enough

to get us our steel, to
build the new Vegas.

And they just keep building,
and everything looks like this.

This is what we see
everywhere we go every day.

- The gambling industry
is bouncing back.

So evidently
they're doing it right.

- Vegas took a hit, but it
bounced back pretty damn quick.

It's an endless supply of money.

People still are getting on
those planes coming to Vegas.

- 50 million passengers

travelled through Vegas in 2019,

the most in a year ever.

- March of 2020, the
pandemic happens.

Coronavirus shuts
down the entire country.

- Makeshift morgues

are being built to handle
the crush of bodies.

The usually
packed Vegas strip,

now a ghost town.

This,
after several employees

on the strip tested
positive for COVID-19.

It has been more
than a month since Las Vegas

was shut down by the coronavirus

with the number
of confirmed cases

continuing to climb
though in Nevada.

- You've got over
a million people

who have been infected by
this virus in the United States.

The death toll in
the United States,

from coronavirus
now stands at 57,000.

- Today at the
president's briefing,

we were told again
that the number

of American deaths could
reach as high as 200,000.

- Las Vegas mayor,
Carolyn Goodman,

is calling the shutdown
of the state total insanity.

This shutdown has
become one of total insanity.

- She also compared
COVID 19 to the flu

and other viruses.

Who died and made somebody,

the consummate doctor?

Open the city.

- The most contagious contagion

that we've seen in decades.

And then you have a mayor
who doesn't care.

- 2.3 million people
in Southern Nevada.

And we've had 150 deaths.

- Isn't that because of social
distancing that you would have

had far more without it?

- How do you know until
we have a control group?

We offered to be
a control group.

So, here's Caroline
Goodman offering the lives

of the Vegas residents
to be the control group.

I offered to be a control group,

and I was told by our
statistician, you can't do that.

And Anderson Cooper
was sitting there in disbelief

at the amount of crap that
was spilling from this woman.

- This is in China,
this is Las Vegas Nevada.

- Wow, okay, that's
really ignorant.

If you can't figure out
how to do this safely.

Why as mayor of a city
that you are responsible

for something that
you have no plan

for how it would be done safely?

They'd better figure
it out, that's their job.

That's not the mayor's job.
- Let me ask you,

any social distancing?

You don't believe
that this is a...

Of course, I believe
there should be.

Of course.

How do you do
that in a casino?

That's up to
them to figure out.

You have people
dropping dead all over Las Vegas

and you have a mayor
who doesn't care.

All she cares about is cash,
cash, cash, money, money, money.

- We were not broken, and
we need to get back to work.

Just keep
the registers ringing.

Keep the slot machines dinging.

Vegas is a money machine.

It's a huge cash register

about people's lives being lost.

It was evidenced by
what happened during

the mass shooting where
58 people lost their lives,

and it's evidenced by
what Carolyn Goodman

did on the CNN interview
with Anderson Cooper.

The deadliest
mass shooting in U.S. history

became one of
the most forgotten.

- Most of the American public

barely remembers
that it happened.

That just shows you the
power of money in Las Vegas.

It's a town that
was built by the mob,

built on corruption,

and with corporations in charge,

it's just a different
kind of corrupt.

Vegas was
a different town.

I mean, don't get me wrong,
the mob were no angels,

these guys were savages.

But when the town
was less corporate,

it was a much better town.

- I think the challenge is now,

what it should be
and what it was.

- Greed is what's
ruining Las Vegas.

Where else does that happen,

where an entity
would sue the victims

because they dropped the ball?

Only in Las Vegas.

As far as I'm concerned.