Ronald Richards
Appearances
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
When the well started to go dry, she then hid and went into rehab. But I had people in the rehab send me pictures, so I knew she was there.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
I mean, they told me at the rehab it was medication and drinking. That I don't know, I don't have her medical records. And I don't know if that's real. People love to say, I have a drug problem, I have a gambling problem. Criminals always think that's an out.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
My clients would love me to sue the Wynn. Everybody always blames the casino, but the casino's providing a service, okay? They're not providing daycare.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
The Wynn did due diligence. Of course they did.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
Make no mistake, her life is, unless she just really does nothing, which I think she she's too young to do nothing. She's going to have to deal with this. Like, I don't think she's going to work for somebody if I'm hammering her check. She'll probably be self-employed. And again, I don't know. She may get cute and try to put the business under someone's name and I'll sue that person.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
You know, I don't know what she's going to do. She first has to go to prison and then get out of prison. We're still this case is taking longer than I thought to get her sentenced.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
Like a crappy job in retail for her compared to what she did before. And then she kind of made her feel better that she could go to work every day and start earning some money. And then they fired her because they saw someone reported her on the story that you did and other reporters. And they said they don't want her working there.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
And I felt bad because I think everybody's entitled to redeem themselves.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
So I told her, like, you don't understand, like, once I'm on somebody, I become obsessed with them. I only have the most love for you, Sarah, and that is to prevent you from stealing from anybody else. If you can't gamble, there'll be no more victims. You know, it's like the gambling creates your thievery.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
Within seconds of me telling the Wynn's general counsel, she's a fraudster. They cut her off, 86ed her.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
I'm calling every casino in Vegas. I have every general counsel's name, and I got her 86 from every casino. I have pictures of her gambling, like someone would send me a picture. I'd call the casino, and I'd tell Sarah, you're not fucking gambling anywhere, okay? I would tell her that we're cutting you off. As she'd get kicked out of each one, I'd call her and say, you see, or I'd text.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
Of course, I'd say, how was your escort today? To let her know that I was on top of her. Because it's not illegal to tell someone you're not going to be gambling, I'm going to cut you off. That's a legal threat. It's not extortion saying I'm going to prevent you from gambling the victim's money away.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
Sometimes she was mad because she'd get embarrassed. You know, she'd yell. She's like, you think that's going to get the money back if you get me kicked out? I go, we're not going to lose any more money. I told her, like, I'm going to cut off all the things you like to do. This was a series of not threats, a series of actions. I told her, your days of gambling in Vegas are over.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 6. The Moment of Impact
I will make sure no casino allows you to ever wager a dollar.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
There was a tremendous amount of emails and WhatsApps and, you know, I think Cameron scrambling to try to fix this.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
They ran a special software to see that the accounts were altered in some way, the statements. And he didn't want to believe it, but some sharper people in New York that understand how a fraud works were able to show scientifically that the statements that the company was getting were doctored.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
Is it sophisticated fraud to just take a PDF and manipulate the numbers on it? No, that's like shooting someone and leaving your gun and bullets at the crime scene after you touched it without a glove. So no, that wasn't sophisticated fraud. That was unsophisticated fraud.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
I can't really describe what my client told because that's going to get into confidential communications. I could just tell you that Sarah and Cameron did their best to try to mitigate the level of fraud.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
Because they, They, you know, they do what fraudsters do. They delay, lull, and give fake promises. The fraudsters always prey on, you think your debt is more important than the other people they've defrauded, and that's a miscalculation.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
Cameron met him and tried to basically did a mea culpa that it's all her fault. And yeah, I think Cameron pulled the plug pretty quickly once he was confronted. Cameron rolled over quick and said, I can't, you know, basically, I'm so sorry. I can't believe it. Cameron was frantic that he had a realization that this, that he could go to prison for what happened.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
I have lengthy emails and lengthy calls with Cameron where I think he told me what happened. In my opinion, he did the smartest thing he could do and was keep talking to me. Because of that, I had enough information that made me have some doubt as to his culpability, and I didn't need to make the decision to sue him the same day I was going to sue Sarah.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
The first interview, though, wasn't, hey, I'm still trying to fix these loans. There was a complete capitulation that, hey, I ripped off your client, and I got to try to fix it. And so my goal in the call was, you know, we have a short window here. If you could start fixing it, it'll save you a tsunami of problems.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
Within seconds of me telling the Wind General Counsel she's a fraudster, they cut her off, 86'd her.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
We're not going to watch you gamble while you owe our client all this money and all these other people. So I told her, like, you don't understand. Like, once I'm on somebody, I become obsessed with them. I only have the most love for you, Sarah. And that is to prevent you from stealing from anybody else. So if you can't gamble, there'll be no more victims.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
It's possible there was a bias thinking, oh, well, she's a lawyer. She does have the finance company. How would she just ruin all this for just this one fraud?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
Why would a rational person say that his longtime friend's wife is going to now commit massive financial fraud?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn
She is the queen of unverifiable stories, of positions that are meritless, that make no sense.