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The High Roller Heist

Money Isn't Everything, But... | Chapter 7

The High Roller Heist

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Having blown through his lower denomination chips, Tony now must somehow move the illicit $25k Cranberry chips he has stolen, which will soon be discontinued by the Bellagio. Meanwhile, detectives have their own plan to catch Tony, proving he is The Biker Bandit.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast is intended for mature audiences.

0:04.0

Listener discretion is advised. Rain.

0:13.0

We're going to be a land. Pick a little picture.

0:30.0

Most of the times I played crafts was actually on the table that I robbed. I don't know, I'm I guess an asshole in that manner.

0:33.0

Some of that was like altruism right like I tip pretty good when I was be ambling.

0:38.0

There's a couple days where I want a real nice chunk of money legit legit, well whatever legitimately means.

0:44.0

It was from ill-gotten gains, but I actually won.

0:47.4

I think I won like 40, 45K, and when they're coloring me up, I had them give me one of the new $25,000 chips.

0:56.5

They decommissioned the original cranberries.

0:59.2

You heard right, the old original cranberry chips over 1 million dollars of what Tony stole were being decommissioned

1:08.5

Let me explain

1:12.3

While Tony spent the holidays blowing through nearly 100K and chips and partying in his

1:17.2

comp suite at the casino he just robbed and LVM PD investigators like Sam

1:22.1

Smith diligently gathered more and more evidence

1:25.1

proving Anthony Carleo was the biker bandit. The Bilagio Hotel and Casino was making its own moves.

1:32.3

On New Year's Eve of 2010, the Bilageo's parent company,

1:35.7

MGM Resorts International, announced they were discontinuing the current $25,000 cranberry chips

1:42.3

and replacing them with newly designed cranberry chips.

1:46.1

According to the press release, all of the old cranberry chips would need to be redeemed by April

1:51.1

22nd of 2011. That meant anyone holding cranberry chips

1:55.8

would have just over three months to cash them in until they were ultimately

1:59.6

worthless. And that included Tony. A lot of other people from around Vegas, America, and the rest of the world were holding these Balagio cranberry chips instead of cash.

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