Posted on 10/19/2017 5:12:30 PM PDT by markomalley
A Las Vegas shooting survivor and California attorney believes the MGM and Mandalay Bay are behind the scenes calling the shots on what is released to the public and keeping the American people in the dark concerning serious questions that should be addressed and specific video evidence, along with documentation that would reveal their part in allowing alleged shooter Stephen Paddock to be holed up in the Mandalay Bay hotel before the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
On Thursday, Brain Claypool of Claypool Law Firm, joined me on The Sons of Liberty radio show to talk about what he experienced and specific questions he has with regard to the transparency, or lack thereof, which we are receiving from the investigation into the shooting.
You can listen to the podcast of the show by clicking here.
According to Claypool, who is representing at least one Vegas shooting victim and is willing to represent others to have the truth come out, he believes there is a massive coverup that is being orchestrated by MGM and Mandalay Bay and has good reason to believe so.
“It is my belief that the MGM/Mandalay Bay is tampering with evidence and concealing crucial evidence,” said Claypool. “The MGM changed the timeline by altering the 9:59 ‘manual’ entry of when security guard Jesus Campos said that he was first shot at my Paddock. The fact that Jesus Campos has oddly vanished since the shooting strongly suggests that MGM is hiding evidence and is worried that Campos will tell the truth about when shots were first fired.”
“Why is MGM hiding Campos?” he asked. “They are manipulating him and the evidence to minimize liability. Where is the 9:59pm manual entry. Why hasn’t the public seen this entry? Why is nobody being transparent in the investigation? When people are shot by police officers and they have either dash cam or body cam video it is now routinely released to the public to promote transparency.”
Claypool also targets the failure to release surveillance video that Mandalay Bay has.
“Here, we have the worst mass shooting in the history of our country and not a single person both in law enforcement or political is demanding the release of surveillance video of Paddock in elevators and otherwise to help the grieving public get answers to crucial questions,” he said.
Claypool also asks about housekeeping records for Paddock’s rooms.
“Why hasn’t MGM released housekeeping records to prove that Paddock’s room was cleaned and nothing out of the ordinary was noticed?” Claypool questioned. “What hasn’t anybody in the US asked for a security task force to dig into this and conduct an ‘independent’ investigation?”
He then elaborates on what he believes is the theory behind the lack of transparency.
“The answer to this question is that The indelible image of sin city Las Vegas and the money it generates is much more important than getting the truth to improve security and prevent another massacre from happening,” he said. “Make no mistake that MGM is getting preferential treatment. Whatever happens in Vegas truly stays in Vegas, including a massacre. Mandalay Bay was never shut down for a single second despite being a crime scene and MGM never issued any statement to families and people staying at the casino post shooting. This is callous and connotes a cover up.”
Claypool told Sons of Liberty that he was staying at that hotel the night of the shooting.
“Other major casinos in Vegas have a 24-hour policy on housekeepings,” Claypool said. “Due to the high volume of suicide and crime in Las Vegas, major casinos will knock on doors of guests and enter after a 24 hour time period, even if a guest has a ‘do not disturb sign’ on the door.”
“While people nationwide are drowning in opinions they are desperate for the ‘truth’ and the housekeeping records are the key to unlocking the truth,” he continued. “Why won’t MGM release housekeeping records and interviews of the housekeeping staff? Is it because the housekeeping crew made exceptions for Paddock because he is a high roller and spends a lot of money?”
Claypool then charges, “The Mandalay Bay/MGM enabled Paddock to carry out this mass shooting by facilitating his plan. They catered to him at every whim by allowing him to use service freight elevators and by failing to enter his room or if they did, failed to report unusual behavior.”
“It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that most pathological gamblers have some degree of mental illness,” added Claypool. “They are typically ‘disconnected’ from society and don’t care about anything else other than the fantasy world of gambling. Most pathological gamblers like Paddock don’t have loved ones in their lives making them more of danger to others. Nearly all casino owners knew who Paddock was. He should have been on their radar screen as opposed to being pampered by an irresponsible casino more concerned about making money than securing safety of others.”
Claypool also spoke to the bottom line when it comes to casinos.
“Casinos view security as not adding to its bottom line,” he said. “Spending money on security takes away from profit and typically there is a firewall between billionaire casino owners and security. Here, the Mandalay Bay was predatory. It catered to a deranged mans every whim because he brings profit to them as opposed to realizing that mental illness often permeates the minds of pathological gamblers.”
“In the end, our local state or federal government should be demanding an ‘independent’ investigation into how security at MGM slowed this to happen and why it facilitated Paddock’s behavior,” he added. “Does anyone care about preventing this from happening again?”
Other things came up on the show, including the fact that Paddock allegedly used his wife’s ID to check into the hotel, something that is against their policies.
For more from Brian Claypool, check out his other interviews below.
MGM — the movie studio? First the Vegas shooting and now Weinstein fiasco. I’ll wager the board of directors are desperate to cover their @sses.
There’s a maxim that says, “When headlines ask a question, the answer is usually no.”
Ellen also has a big sponsorship through MGM. Her face and brand appears on many a slot machine, apparently.
Why hasn’t the breakdown of deaths and injuries from bullet wounds vs stampede/chaos casualties been released. The media is happy that hasn’t gotten out. In the 70s, eleven people were killed at a WHO concert with about 19,000 attendees. And no one was shooting at them.
They could be with the local LEO’s.
Not the same company.
I read an article the other day that said the two complaints that came from Paddock about the music too loud in the room below happened that afternoon/evening, not the previous night. Before I put the quotes, there were two sets of guards on the 31st floor that visited room 134 for a noise complaint. Did the guards visit the 32nd floor to reassure Paddock they’d handled the complaint? What did they see?
Also, on a cbs interview, one of the swat team made mention there were ‘lots of drills’ and ‘drill bits’ and tool boxes (plural).
Garzon, from San Diego, in room 31-134 seemed to have made it to the 31st floor - did he see Campos on the 31st floor?
: “After that encounter [two warnings by two diff sets of security guards], the group headed down to the concert. Once there, the taco shop owner had what he describes as a bad feeling and left the music festival, leaving his wife and friends.
He was making his way to the 31st floor when the shots rang out from the 32nd floor.
“I just started sweating super bad, I wanted to get away and like I said, I didn’t try to make a scene about it. I said, ‘Hey guys, I’m going to go back to the room.’
“As I’m leaving the hotel, my wife is calling me screaming...
He “couldn’t get back to the hotel for at least 14 hours?
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/06/shooter-complained-that-mandalay-bay-guests-below/
and we also have:
this article in the KansasCity.com, that appears to put Garzon and Floyd Conrade in the same room? or maybe Garzon in 135 and Conrade in 134?
“Most of the time he stayed away from the window.
“He heard officers over the radio announce the gunman’s room number. It was one digit off from his: 31-134 and adjoining room 135. Stephen Paddock, the shooter, was in 32-134 and adjoining room 135.
“That’s when he knew the gunfire he’d heard had been coming from directly above.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article177047656.html#storylink=cpy
finally, here’s a two and a half hour scanner video/audio. (the guy got tossed out of his hotel for filming so you’re going to have to bear with his intermittent complaining about that). He says about an hour and a half in that he hasn’t heard any shots since he first started filming. The audio portion is pretty good, and I don’t hear any shots either. All during the video, we hear 2 hours of repeated calls into the PD of ‘active shooter’ ( after the perp was dead and involving some 60 establishments on the strip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OisB4kggdPI
Shooting time was about 10 minutes, yet the police didn’t enter his room until 52 minutes later, right..?
What was happening from 10-52 minutes..?
I heard something so crazy I don’t know if I should believe it:
“The police were waiting FOR PERMISSION from MGM to go up to floor 32”...!!!
Now, I did know all about the lavish Casino contributions to the Sherrif. And yes, I know that money will buy INFLUENCE, sure, but...PERMISSION..?
That really blew my hair back, a little.
That would point to a level of casino control over such things that is....well....EXOTIC.
And I’m no biz-hating Marxist, not by about 100 miles.
oh darn! there went my easy explanation! Drat!
I think they were spun off at some point.
Yet another reason to force companies to have completely unique names.
The Harvey Weinstein story took this off the front page - by design.
when we’ve stayed in vegas, we always hang the “do not disturb” sign....I would be mad if a maid decided to just come in anyway....
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