Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Anna Politkovskaya’s Lawyer Stanislav Markelov Shot Dead in Moscow
January 21st, 2009Via: Times: A campaigning Russian lawyer was shot dead in central Moscow today after giving a press conference to draw attention to the early release of an army colonel convicted of the murder of a young woman during the war in Chechnya. Officials said that Stanislav Markelov, who also represented the slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, […]
Bernard Madoff, the Mafia, and Naked Short Selling
January 21st, 2009“One wrong word and he’s dead, his family is dead, etc. He knows it. He’s sticking to a script. …People involved with this, at the levels we don’t even know about yet, mainly, the management of day-to-day operations, are probably already dead.” —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud “At some […]
And Then They Came for Me: Journalist Writes His Own Obituary and Is Assassinated Days Later
January 19th, 2009Via: The Sunday Leader: No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. […]
And Now… Plague Sweeps Through al Qaeda Terror Training Camp, Killing 40
January 19th, 2009Well, let’s take a quick walk down Cryptogon memory lane: Plague-Infested Mice Missing from Bioterror Research Lab World of Warcraft Disease Model U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu Researchers Have Isolated the Genes that Made the 1918 Flu Pandemic So Deadly, and Spliced Those Genes Into Modern Flu Viruses Via: Telegraph: The Black […]
Austrian Banker, Who Placed Billions of Dollars with Madoff, Vanishes
January 9th, 2009Fuggetaboutit. Via: New York Times: With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now, she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out […]
Real-Estate Executive Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
January 7th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Real-estate executive Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago, said the Kane County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Good, 52 years old, was chief executive of Sheldon Good & Co., one of the nation’s largest real-estate auction firms. […]
German Billionaire Adolf Merckle Commits Suicide
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: German billionaire Adolf Merckle, assailed by financial turmoil and struggling to salvage his business empire, has killed himself, his family said on Tuesday. “The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and […]
The Death of Jennifer Ellis-Seitz
December 30th, 2008None of the stories that I’ve read about the death of Jennifer Ellis-Seitz mentioned that she was involved with training poll workers for upcoming elections in Florida. So, we have: (A reporter) from (Florida), who also happened to be involved with (Florida elections), supposedly committed (suicide) during a cruise that she took with her family […]
Madoff Probe Focuses on Tax Havens
December 28th, 2008Via: Guardian: The hunt for funds allegedly cheated out of investors by Bernard Madoff, who faces fraud charges in New York, has turned to offshore tax havens where investigators believe he may have salted away hundreds of millions of dollars. Stephen Harbeck, chief executive of America’s Securities Investor Protection Corporation (Sipc) and official receiver of […]
Israel Attacks Gaza, Hundreds Dead: Who Made a Killing?
December 27th, 2008What did the Benazir Bhutto assassination and the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have in common? There was a strong move higher on gold immediately preceding both incidents, which were spaced one year apart, to the day. Remember how gold moved before Bhutto was killed? Check out this Bloomberg piece from yesterday (a day before […]
