Please add something more substantive and less divisive than “hmmmmmmmm”. There’s so much interesting about this fellow’s life which can add some fascinating narrative here, we can all avoid cheapening it with aggression and flame wars.
If I won a $1 million lottery (after taxes) I’d have no idea how to turn that into $100M. I’d probably spend 75% of it on a house, 10% of it to pay off other debts, and then be still solidly in the labor class.
The guy obviously built an empire out of nothing, through both grift and grit. His first major win may have been ingratiating himself with the Haitian leadership, but how do you do this with nothing?
I don’t admire it, but I recognize that it doesn’t just happen either. The guy didn’t really win with a lottery ticket, he did something to put the fix in at the lottery.