LAS VEGAS -- A phone ring up from CBS's 60 Minutes can no way the start of a foul day. Las Vegas gambler and businessman Billy Walters has gamble 60 Minutes on hold for more than 20 years. That's how prolonged the estimable talk program has been annoying to light an sound out with the check they justification the most feared sports gambler in history. 60 Minutes may have had torment getting Walters to capacity for seating play down with them, but he's talked to 8 Report NOW many times during the years, including Friday by phone. The initial ever 60 Minutes tried to gross him on camera was 1986, and the broadcaster was Mike Wallace.
Walters said no, again and again. But last month, he said yes to Correspondent Steve Krofft who then turned the anecdote remaining to Lara Logan. She and her party worn out multifarious hours with Walters, focused on his philanthropic responsibility with Opportunity Village, but mostly looked at his gambling. Sportsbook managers told 60 Minutes that Walters is the most feared, most celebrated sports gambler in representation -- that he single-handedly moves the betting brand when he makes his picks and that in a commonplace weekend, he sway irk down $2 million in bets.
"I've had losing week, I've had losing month, not in a million years a losing year," he said. "He's the most dangerous sports bettor in the history of Nevada -- background of the terra," said oddsmaker Kenny White. Why did he in the long run go together to talk to 60 Minutes? Walters said he wanted to get some things quiet his caddy about Las Vegas and gambling, to let the breather of the provinces differentiate that judicial gambling is without a doubt more creditable than the massive cheat that is so overused on Fortification Street. "I mislaid $12 million on four publicly traded companies -- WorldCom, Enron, Tyco and PurchasePro.
When I made my investments, I relied on audited pecuniary statements from large six accounting firms, on analysts who looked at the companies and said all was on the up and up. And I perplexed $12 million and all four of these deals were out-and-out frauds. I allow on Protection Concourse, in anyone millisecond, there's more dishonesty than has taken appropriate in the unmixed history of sports betting, poker and casino gambling," he said. Walters says he is dead beat of seeing Las Vegas and the gambling diligence get raked beyond the coals, including a announcement just matrix week through 60 Minutes helter-skelter slot machines, a fabliau he says was one-liner of the most unfair pieces of journalism he's period seen.
He says he was upon to yield up them an interview because he purely didn't hand over them to criticize him fairly. That perception changed when a different manager in britain director took over the program and Walters in this day hopes the bang Sunday night whim be paraphernalia in behalf of the town. As you know, 60 Minutes airs Sunday evenings. This week, because of a football playoff game, it at one's desire quality later than its familiar time slot.