Remember the Las Vegas shooting. That was al Waleed, the lesser Prince. He did an interview on 60 Minutes, was very vocal, didn't get picked to be in the inner circles of the Kingdom though.

Then after Las Vegas, very hush hush in US, there were a bunch of Princes in Saudi arrested and tortured in Saudi custody (Ritz Hotel) for their involvement in the Las Vegas incident. al Waleed was ordered to pay 500 billion (billion) to the US in restitution (it was his hotel where it happened, oh and he was the shooter).

al Waleed couldn't come up with the money. So MbS stepped in to save the day and made a 500 billion (same exact amount) in contracts with Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon for military hardware instead. Sweet deal for the deaths of those concert goers.

MbS also got a cushy deal for Aramco where he pocketed 2 trillion (trillion) in cooperation with the US as a result of the petrodollar break up.