Dan Bilzerian Escapes Jail Time for Explosives Charges, Will Record PSA
According to the Canadian Press and other sources, high-stakes poker player Dan Bilzerian (pictured) will avoid jail time on a felony explosives charge and will instead record a PSA for the Federal Bureau of Land Management.
In mid-December, Bilzerian was arrested at LAXand held without bail. Authorities claimed that Bilzerian and 36-year-old Jeremy Guymon “fired a rifle from a distance to detonate more than 90 pounds of a powdered explosive mix packed into a beverage cooler to destroy a tractor-trailer cab, which they brought to the site. Investigators said truck parts scattered some 300 yards.”
The incident occurred in November outside of Las Vegas and, according to the same news source, “sparked a small wildfire.”
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Bilzerian, who did not appear in court, pleaded no contest through his attorney, David Chesnoff, to a misdemeanor charge of negligently failing to extinguish a fire in the open. Bilzerian also paid a clean-up cost of $17,231.50.”
In the middle of last year, Bilzerian told Howard Stern he had won $50 million playing poker in the last 12 months, so $17,000 seems like a rather small chunk of change.
The Las Vegas news source cited the lead prosecutor as saying, “It is largely unnecessary to go further based on the conditions of the plea and the facts of this case.” Accordingly, the Feds are not expected to pursue any charges despite the transgressions taking place on BLM property in the middle of the Nevada desert.
Bilzerian’s playboy lifestyle has been anything but calm. In May 2014, he made headlines for throwing a naked porn star off a roof. In December 2013, he claimed he won almost $11 million in one session of poker. According to the Review-Journal, Bilzerian “is the son of Paul Bilzerian, a corporate takeover specialist convicted in the 1980s of violating securities and tax laws.” The younger Bilzerian has 6.5 million followers on Instagram.
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