For starters I have no nephews, the one's I had were through marriage, I am no longer married. The kid that made those bets owned up to it and all the 7 or so agents he owed were given his name, address, phone number, his work number and so on. Everything I had! On top of that, although I was on probation at the time for a gambling charge, I got involved to the point that while I was not going to play go-between and write down each time he sent someone a $100 dollar bill, all of them could call me if he stopped paying or they had problems. I don't know how much more fair I could be, I wanted to kick his ass like never before. As we know all of them talked to the kid and his father, confirmed the story, and all got paid if that was their goal. In fact I am pretty sure he is still paying 1 or 2 of them but nobody got stiffed unless they wanted to.
I'm not going to say much about Shrink, far as I know he's kept my name out of his mouth so I am not going to allow a nobody like you to start the fireworks again. That said this had more than meets the eye, there was a lot of politics involved. It's real simple though, like everything else in the forums it was grossly overblown and had nothing to do with anyone here. The first reports were some masked men broke into Pat's house and ran up his credit accounts!! Everything was done to make it sound as bad as possible. Then it was the mysterious nephew hijacked his accounts and blew town!! Of course the truth eventually came out and it turned out to be the same as it is today --> Pat knows who did it and the guy has owned up to it. Not only that, he is going to pay back every dollar he stole. I wanted to have the kid arrested but the agents involved talked me out of that, naturally they wanted their money instead of revenge like I was seeking. In the end, all the guys called the kid and set up arrangements, a few that were local even met up with him and his dad. I have heard no complaints since then from anyone involved, only forum people like Raiders who are caught up in the whole nephew smack like to keep this going, LOL.
In the end, I admitted once at Fezziks that I would have done some things differently if I could do it again. I would never stiff a soul out of a dollar but I'm not perfect. The kid told his dad afterwards he had placed bets on my accounts more than once before this happened. This time he placed a few bets that lost, tried to push until he got even and ended up never getting even. The end total was well over 200k he owed. I have to take some blame for not protecting my stuff better. Secondly if I knew what I did now I would have just borrowed the money I didn't have in the safe and paid everyone back all at once. Even my partner told me later in his opinion I should have put my emotions aside and done that, I have to respect that. The problem was they pissed me off, I was in no mood to help anyone. I was going to do the least I could do but still give everyone a chance to get their money back. Why? I was both going through a divorce at the time (contested) and was still serving probation for running a gambling house. To see an alleged gambling debt plastered on the forums here publically which was TWO DAYS before it was even due really pissed me off. I mean to even bet here is illegal, to be on probation and have all this hit the forums really took me by suprise.
I believe Ken if he claims he didn't get paid, I have ZERO contact with that kid or his family these days, however no one is going to tell me he didn't have the chance to do so. I have been stiffed a million times, it sucks to be slowpayed but it's better than nothing. Outside of Ken (and 1 other agent that was owed a VERY small amount of money), I know the others got paid because I still do business with all of them. In the forums there are some who believe I stiffed someone, in the real world nothing has changed. I got more credit now than I have ever had, more than I could ever use. I just protect it a little better now. Truth is I don't blame posters for saying it, if it was someone else I might bust their balls too, LOL. In fact I would be skeptical if it wasn't me, a lot of these stories of gamblers having troubles are true. Bottom line the same posters who knew and respected me before this happened, still do. The one's that didn't like me before this happened, still don't. It just makes it a little easier for the Pat-haters to find ammo these days.