The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

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It started with baseball cards on the school playground. By 17 Richard Marcus was already gambling serious money in the big Las Vegas casinos. At 40, he had devised a scam that was making him millions of dollars as one of the world’s most prolific casino cheats. But it takes a thief to catch a thief, and now the same casinos he once robbed employ him to sniff out fraudsters. Bilquis Edhi, the nurse and philanthropist who transformed Pakistani healthcare, died earlier this year at the age of 74. She spoke to Outlook in 2016 describing how she and her husband built up and ran the Edhi Foundation from a Karachi slum to be Pakistan’s most impressive social enterprise. Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Maryam Maruf Get in touch: [email protected] (Photo: Richard Marcus. Credit: Ingrid Infante)