Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Fund Manager Tied to Madoff Case Found Dead
December 24th, 2008For the first time, I’m preemptively adding a story, this story, to the Assassination category. —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud Via: AP: A fund manager who lost more than $1 billion of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Manhattan office, […]
Book Claims General George S. Patton Was Assassinated to Silence His Criticism of Allied War Leaders
December 23rd, 2008Reader JT reminds us that Patton carried ivory handled revolvers, not pearl handled, as the Telegraph article below states in error. We know that when asked about those “pearl handles” on a later occasion, General Patton angrily corrected the reporter who asked the question and sharply explained that they were ivory. “Only a New Orleans […]
Banker Suicide: HSBC Head of Insurance, Who Also Happened to be a Danish Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, Hangs Himself in London Five Star Hotel Room
December 22nd, 2008Via: Times Online: Knightsbridge An HSBC banker has been found hanged at a five-star hotel, after apparently committing suicide. Christen Schnor, 49, was found by a hotel worker hanging by a belt in the closet of his £500-a-night suite at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, West London. A note was found by his […]
Banker Suicide: Manager of Secondary Marketing Stabs Herself to Death
December 22nd, 2008Keep in mind that secondary marketing refers to the securitization and selling of mortgage backed securities. So, Kristy Hunt resigned her position as the secondary market manager for Community Bank & Trust’s mortgage department, and a few days later she stabbed herself to death with a small kitchen knife? Oh sure. Via: Springfield Business Journal: […]
White House Consultant Who Rigged 2004 Election Dies in Plane Explosion
December 20th, 2008Via: Brad Blog: The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the private plane of the GOP’s highly-placed “IT guru” Mike Connell’s went down in Lake Township, Ohio on Friday evening. Connell was killed in the crash and is reported to have been the only person on board. There are no reports of anyone on the […]
Madoff Can’t Leave Apartment, Prosecutors Fear ‘Harm or Flight’
December 20th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff, accused in a $50 billion investment fraud, was placed under 24-hour house arrest in his $7 million New York City apartment after prosecutors warned of his “harm or flight.” Madoff, 70, had been subject to electronic monitoring and a 7 p.m. curfew under a Dec. 17 court order. Now […]
The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud
December 15th, 2008UPDATE: Madoff Claims to Have Acted Alone Impossible. It’s like I said when the news first broke. He’s trying to stay alive. This one goes all the way up the ladder. One wrong word and he’s dead, his family is dead, etc. He knows it. He’s sticking to a script. For the first time, I’m […]
Julius Baer CEO: Suicide
December 5th, 2008Oh sure. See the Wikileaks data on Julius Baer. Via: Reuters: Alex Widmer, the chief executive of Bank Julius Baer and a well respected figure in Swiss private banking, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52, the bank said. A source told Reuters he had been informed by close friends of Widmer’s family that […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General
November 20th, 2008Change™ and Hope™, now with 100% more WTF!? Via: Huffington Post: In its recent report entitled, “Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) had specific recommendations for the U.S. Department of Justice. Specifically, HRW recommended that, in order to assist with the process of ending the ties […]
