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senpaithatignoresyou ago

I did not know he owned an island. How does a vegas magician have enough money to own an island?

Oh_Well_ian ago

his net worth is $900million

senpaithatignoresyou ago

How does an illusionist get a 900 million net worth? Does vegas really pay that well? Did the tv events generate THAT much money? Something is not adding up here.

elephantdoesntforget ago

I'm thinking in addition to human trafficking, he is involved in drug trafficking.

He has access to moving around large freight on airplanes for his acts. Imagine, many of his props have hidden compartments, how easy would it be for them to hide drugs and even people in his props and fly them anywhere.

senpaithatignoresyou ago

I am curious about how customs treats him. Inside the country, i do not think he would be inspected by customs or law enforcement. So you could smuggle drugs from vegas to some other part of the country, no problem, via copperfield.

Would he get scrutinized in another part of the world?

elephantdoesntforget ago

Well, his private warehouse in Las Vegas that was raided in 2007 was very big, worth at least several million. Given his large operation, I wouldn't be surprised if he or his company owns planes.

In my experience private planes do not get heavily scrutinized. Persons running drug operations like Copperfield will only do so if they have the whole thing 'wrapped up,' meaning they choose a very small airport, or one where they have their own network of people working at. All it takes is one or two paid off airport workers to help make things 'easy' for them. One notorious airport for drug smuggling I've read about recently is in Aruba.

Copperfield is not stupid nor is the group he is part of that does this trafficking. They do many dry runs, develop many contacts and recruit people to tow their line. They do not do things where there is a possibility of being caught, they are very meticulous.

senpaithatignoresyou ago

The vegas connection means organized crime. This makes sense in a lot of ways. it also ties into the SEIU and the drug cartels. This would also tie into the Clintons. How many diplomatic shows has copperfield done? How many shows for politicians?

elephantdoesntforget ago

Good points, especially on diplomatic shows.

His venue, MGM Grand, seems to be one of the most corrupt companies in existence right now. CEO and high level executives for MGM Grand sold most of their stock right before the Paddock shootings at the Mandalay Bay.

It's known casinos are used for money laundering. Even though all casinos these days in the USA have gone 'legit', there is still lots of illegal activity going on. Money laundering is very hard to catch.

senpaithatignoresyou ago

Is the MGM grand still connected with the studio. There seems to be a lot here. it could be a linchpin.

elephantdoesntforget ago

Not sure. I'm sure there is some sort of corporate seperation.

I know MGM was started by Kirk Krekorian, a very shady now deceased mobster.