I'm sure you have read about the book The Sociopath Next Door in the thread, it is a must read and as you turn every page you will see Peter throughout.
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To answer your questions, I would estimate Peter spent somewhere around $800 cash for airfare, and $3600 for penthouse suite at Aria for a trip for my husband to Vegas in April = $4400. He also paid for a stretch limo and got sold-out show tickets for friends. He also gave us 2 tickets to a show in Atlantic City. Then we met him for dinner at a steakhouse in NYC - dinner for the three of us was probably @ $600 plus the $100 extra he tipped the waiter. So all in, @ $5000.
What makes Peter successful in my opinion? His dedication to his marks. He gives 100% all the time. He's funny and charasmatic and acts like he really enjoys life... like he'd do anything for you and wants nothing in return. He's very non-demonstrative. He doesn't drink or smoke or do drugs so it makes you feel like he has a really good head on his shoulders and you can trust him. DO NOT!
For the record, I was never completely convinced about Peter. I would say things to him like "Oh Peter, I googled you today.... You are a ghost. You don't exist" but he would rarely comment.
While in Vegas, Peter only showed up for 1 of the 3 nights my husband was there TO MEET HIM and SEE HIS "IN ACTION" first hand. I knew something was really wrong with that... my husband called and said "He is a fake - this is ridiculous". BUT on the last night, Peter finally showed up and took my husband to the VIP room at Ceasar's. He said everyone knew Peter by name, and acted as if they had known each other for years. Peter introduced by husband to a runner (now sure who it was now) and my husband saw Peter give the guy $50k in a fedex envelope to place on bets. Then Peter introduced my husband to Richie Baccellieri who is the Ceasar's official book maker and is a real dude who stars in the TLC tv series called "Linemakers" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEluD98YJlQ . He acted like he's known Peter for years - in fact, I believe he even said he's known Peter forever and that he's a great guy. WHAT?!??!?!? Seriously dude!??!?! Either he's in on the scam too OR he's about to be Peter's next mark. They were all actually hanging out together. That's when my husband called to tell me "Peter was the real deal" - and I'm sure that was Peter's mission. We found out from Betsey last week that what Peter typically does with a mark is show up at a casino in advance, and then grease all the wait staff, etc. with $200 each. He tells them to "make him a star, make me shine" and then they act like he's the greatest thing since sliced bread once they see him with his mark. When asked WHY they would do this, one staff member said they don't make any money and even though they know Peter is a scumbag, they take his money and act all nice because it's $200 they didn't even before. UGH
I also heard the following from a very reliable source:
- Peter made friends with Ceasar's shoe shine guy who let Peter stay with him. Peter then robbed him.
- Peter made friends with a guy and his 85 year old mother. The guy unfortunately died of AIDS so Peter convinced his mom to let him stay with her. That is the address you can find on his license - if you Google it, you will see it is a 55 and older community. He later robbed her.
- When Peter doesn't have anywhere to crash, he sleeps on the streets in Las Vegas.
- Peter has never held a job in his entire life. He does not have a car, a checking account, a savings account, or a credit card. There is nothing to his name and no way to track him.
- Peter really did give his kidney to a woman who was dying. He did it supposedly because he was feeling very bad about himself. After the surgery, he stayed with the woman and then robbed her. This is the SAME woman who was placing 3-way phone calls for Peter FROM JAIL to US . I know this because she forgot to block her number, I googled it, and then called her back. She refused to give me any information about Peter at all.
- This woman, named Robyn from Tennessee, is the person who is now supposedly bankrolling Peter's attorney fees.
And here's a picture of our friend Peter ziplining with us the first night we met him at the Golden Nugget. I have cropped out everyone else.
Jeez, you were really ready to hand over 100k to him on excpectation of returning 35k/month? PETER IS GOD. Dudes obviously good at what he does, but if it seems too good to be true.... LOL @ him still scamming people on the outside while hes inside. What a stud. Also lol @ the casino staff helping with his scam for a measily $200. What scum bags. Economy is tough I guess.
That was one of the three it had to be from the PM I sent you. She is allegedly a Jehovah's Witness, whatever that is. Hopefully she gets charged as an accomplice in his attempted larceny from you because she was listening to all his lies on the phone. Is there a chance of that? But on second thought she does have Peter Falcone DNA running through her bloodstream from the transplant, what else could we expect?
Fascinating stuff. The odds of him ever doing anything else in his life besides scamming is approximately 0.0.
We've already been in touch with the FBI who informed me "unless Peter took money from us already" there isn't much they can do except pass along the info to the LA DA's office, etc.... I know Betsey is already arranging to have everyone he's stolen money from attend the hearing, etc... so she can put Peter aware for life. I mean, he swindled a dad who's daughter is dying from cancer out of $250k.... He took a NYC Criminal Defense attorney for $300k, and the list goes on and on...... OMG wait until I tell you what he did to Betsey!
Would you be willing to talk on radio tonight? I'm positive Druff would love to talk through these stories to paint the big picture of who Pete is.
I have met people like this, what always amazes me is how they can keep the story straight for so long. Its hard to verify anything, but the "good" ones keep it all going for so long and don't mess up the details so you can catch them in a contradiction.
I also would like to know more about the person you were suppose to hand the cash to in Peter's absence.
On a side note, the news of this flurry of activity has reached Peter and he is officially going crazy, calling whoever he can non-stop. All I can say to that is LMFAO