Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Germanwings Crash
March 24th, 2015Officials: Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Flight 9525 Via: USA Today: The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps deliberately worked to destroy the plane while passengers shrieked in terror and the pilot pounded on the cockpit door, a French prosecutor said at a news conference Thursday in Marseille. “This was voluntary, this […]
New Smoking Gun Further Ties NSA to Omnipotent “Equation Group” Hackers
March 11th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: Researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have uncovered more evidence tying the US National Security Agency to a nearly omnipotent group of hackers who operated undetected for at least 14 years. The Kaspersky researchers once again stopped short of saying the hacking collective they dubbed Equation Group was the handiwork of the NSA, […]
Russian Opposition Politician Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead in Moscow
February 27th, 2015Putin will “personally” investigate. Via: Guardian: Prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and a sharp critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was reportedly shot four times in the chest by a killer in a passing car. The killing took place in the […]
JPMorgan Employee and His Wife Found Dead in Their Home in Apparent Murder-Suicide
February 10th, 2015Via: nj.com: A JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee and his wife were found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide. It happened in Closter Friday evening, where the bodies of Michael and Iran Pars Tabacchi were discovered. Authorities say Iran was stabbed and strangled, while Michael died of a self-inflicted stab wound. But it […]
Chris van Eeghen, ABN Amro Corporate Finance Executive, Dies
January 26th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Chris van Eeghen, head of syndicate and corporate finance markets at ABN Amro Group NV, has died. His death was confirmed in an e-mailed statement from the state-owned Amsterdam-based bank. The statement, which described his death as “totally unexpected,” didn’t provide his age or the date and cause of death. Van Eeghen joined […]
Body of Missing AIG Executive Found in Golf Course Pond
January 19th, 2015Via: Fox News: A body found floating in a pond on a golf course in California has been identified as the AIG executive who disappeared two weeks ago while attending a work conference in the area. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office confirmed that it was the body of Omar Meza on Friday, according to KESQ. […]
Man Who Was Making Film About American Dictatorship Found Dead in Home Along with Wife and Child
January 19th, 2015Via: Star Tribune: In the white rambler in the 1000 block of Ramsdell Drive in Apple Valley, a terrible sight awaited police: The bodies of a man, woman and child lying in the living room, the perpetrator and victims of an apparent murder-suicide. The bodies may have been there for up to four weeks before […]
Hedge Fund Manager Shot Dead, Son Arrested
January 5th, 2015Via: NY Post: The elderly founder of a Manhattan hedge fund was fatally shot in the head by his 30-year-old son inside the family’s swank East Side apartment on Sunday, authorities said. Thomas Gilbert Sr., 70, the Harvard-educated founder and chief investment officer of Wainscott Capital Partners, was gunned down by son Thomas Gilbert Jr., […]
British Tycoon Impaled on Spikes Following 60ft Fall from Luxury London Penthouse
December 10th, 2014Update: Scot Young Via: Telegraph: A financier at the heart of one of Britain’s biggest divorce battles has died after falling from his £3 million home and impaling himself on iron railings. Scot Young, 52, suffered horrific injuries after plummeting four storeys from a window of his luxury central London penthouse. His death comes almost […]
Slain MassMutual Executive Held Wall Street “Trade Secrets”
December 9th, 2014In other news: “Riddles” Surround 36th Dead Banker Of The Year. Via: Wall Street On Parade: On Thursday, November 20, 2014, the body of 54-year old Melissa Millan, a divorced mother of two school-age children, was found at approximately 8 p.m. along a jogging path running parallel to Iron Horse Boulevard in Simsbury, Connecticut. A […]
