Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home
April 6th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said. “The bodies of a father and mother and their daughter were found at the property” in the town of Laren, 32 […]
CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide
April 5th, 2014I thought that we would have the name by now, but they are not releasing it. Via: Washington Free Beacon: A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA. CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed […]
New York: Investment Banker Found Dead on Sidewalk Outside East Side Apartment Building
March 18th, 2014And another one. Via: New York Post: A 28-year old Manhattan investment banker has died after an apparent suicide, police sources said. Kenneth Bellando, who worked at Levy Capital since January, was found dead on the sidewalk outside his East Side building on March 12, after allegedly jumping from the sixth-story roof, sources said. Bellando, […]
Singapore: Young CEO of Crypto Currency Exchange Found Dead
March 5th, 2014Via: Tech in Asia: The startup community has lost one of its own. Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a Singapore-based virtual currency trading platform that also deals in bitcoin, has died last night, Tech in Asia has learned. She was 28 years old. The circumstances surrounding the death is unclear. Sources have suggested that […]
James Stuart Jr., Prominent Lincoln Banker, Found Dead
February 26th, 2014Via: Linkoln Journal Star: A successful Lincoln businessman and member of a prominent local family died last week. Former National Bank of Commerce CEO James Stuart Jr. was found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say what caused the death. A Scottsdale, Ariz., police spokesperson could not […]
New Jet-Powered Drone Can Kill 1,800 Miles From Home Base
February 22nd, 2014Via: Wired: The Avenger (formerly Predator C), whose prototype flew its first flight in 2009, is operationally ready after a new round of tests completed last month, according to its maker, General Atomics. Based on the company’s more well-known MQ-9 Reaper drone, Avenger is designed to perform high-speed, long-endurance surveillance or strike missions, flying up […]
Ryan Crane, JPMorgan Equities Trading Executive, Dies at 37
February 15th, 2014Another one. Via: Bloomberg: Ryan Crane, a JPMorgan (JPM) Chase & Co. employee who in a 14-year career at the New York-based bank rose to executive director of a unit that trades blocks of stocks for clients, has died. He was 37. He died on Feb. 3 at his Stamford, Connecticut, home, according to the […]
After 5 Rejections, Apple Accepts App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
February 13th, 2014Via: Mashable: Persistence, it turns out, does pay off. After rejecting it five times, Apple has finally approved an app that tracks every U.S. drone strike and sends a push notification to users every time a flying robot carries out a deadly mission around the world. Josh Begley, the data artist and developer who made […]
Retired Lawyer Killed After Package Sent to Home Explodes
February 12th, 2014Via: CNN: Bewildered residents in rural Tennessee are grappling with fear and confusion as they try to understand why someone would send a bomb in the mail to their neighbor. Retired lawyer John Setzer, 74, died Monday after “an unknown package exploded,” the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. His wife, 72-year-old Marion Setzer, was seriously […]
We Track ‘Em, You Whack ‘Em
February 11th, 2014Via: First Look: The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. According to a former drone operator for the military’s Joint Special Operations […]
