On Monday, prosecutors said the incident showed he was a danger to himself and others, adding that he was \u201cunquestionably suicidal\u201d during the confrontation.<\/p>\n
He told the crisis negotiator that he wished the FBI agents \u2018would have killed me,\u2019 and that \u2018I need to get the balls to (expletive) pull this trigger,\u201d <\/strong>prosecutors wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nProsecutors also cited a letter Beasley wrote to the FBI in which he refers to himself as a \u201cliar\u201d and a \u201chorrible human being.\u201d He also said he had paid between $15 million to $20 million to his bookie \u201cas a result of gambling debt and extortion\u201d and said he had been threatened by this individual, whose name is redacted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realized a couple of years ago I was too far in to ever recover,\u201d Beasley wrote in the undated letter. \u201cAt that point, I made a choice that I was going to give my family what I\u2019d always wanted them to have before it came to an end. Amazingly, I was able to have another two to three years treating them in a way I felt they deserved to be treated. I realize it was selfish, but I knew this day would come and they would lose more than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Las Vegas lawyer accused of spearheading a $460 million Ponzi scheme is a \u201cflight risk\u201d and a \u201cdanger to the community,\u201d according to prosecutors. On Monday, a federal judge agreed, reversing a magistrate judge\u2019s order to release Matthew Beasley, 50, on bond ahead of his trial. Beasley has been charged with wire fraud and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":209428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[23,85673,86018],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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