Statistic of the Day

[jpmassar]

Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor acknowledged in federal court Thursday that she gambled away millions of dollars that her late husband had earmarked for charity purposes... O'Connor is destitute after gambling away nearly $1 billion at casinos in the San Diego area and Las Vegas from 2008 to 2009, according to prosecutors. She has admitted

Comments

[tom_bayes]

$1 Billion, with a frickin' B? Yep, you have a gambling addiction.

[jpmassar]

Nah. Just a flesh wound.

[vizslas_r00l]

I hope she at least got a free buffet!

[barking_iguana]

1 / 15,000 of the US GDP. The casinos must be very happy.

[quietlion]

I know her. She used to play video poker all over Vegas.

[jnala]

They're intentionally confusing gross loss with net loss to make a more salacious story. Her actual net loss was around $13M.

[tom_bayes]

I was having a hard time buying the $1B loss. The story makes sense now.

[barking_iguana]

Ah, that's a relief. A billion was right at the edge of believability for me, but for it to have happened and for me not to already have heard of it was asking me to revise my understanding of the gambling industry's place in society in a way I didn't like.