Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Two More Finance Firm Employees Dead
June 3rd, 2015They’re starting to go two at a time now. Thomas Hughes: Investment Banker Jumps To His Death In NYC — Sarvshreshth Gupta: Goldman Sachs Analyst Found Dead Hours After Complaining to Father of ‘100 Hour Weeks’
Leaked Report Profiles Military, Police Members of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
May 23rd, 2015Via: First Look: Nuclear power plant technicians, senior military officers, FBI contractors and an employee of “a highly-secretive Department of Defense agency” with a Top Secret clearance. Those are just a few of the more than 100 people with sensitive military and government connections that law enforcement is tracking because they are linked to “outlaw […]
Missing Morgan Stanley Trader Found Dead
May 18th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Murray Abbott, an institutional sales trader at Morgan Stanley in Toronto who had been missing since April 25, was found Monday by the shore of Lake Ontario near the city’s Beaches neighborhood where he lived. He was 36. His death wasn’t suspicious, Mark Pugash, a Toronto Police Service spokesman, said Tuesday in a […]
“Experts Gathered in Nepal a Week Ago to Ready for Earthquake”
April 27th, 2015Via: AP: Nepal’s devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming. Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 […]
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. […]
