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Murdered Banker's Brother Found Dead With Stab Wounds

PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:25 pm
by Rigorous Intuition
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Murdered Banker's Brother Found Dead With Stab Wounds </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Kissel, the real estate developer charged with defrauding mortgage lenders and stealing from a co-op, was found dead in his home with multiple stab wounds, less than three years after his brother was murdered.<br><br>Police in Greenwich, Connecticut, said in a statement that the body of Kissel, 46, was found by workers from a moving company earlier today.<br><br>``Mr. Kissel appears to have suffered several stab wounds to the body,'' according to the statement. ``The results of a medical examiner's report on the cause and manner of death are still pending.''<br><br>Kissel was facing a federal bank fraud charge and state grand larceny and forgery charges at the time of his death. In November 2003, his brother Robert Kissel, an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Hong Kong, was drugged and beaten to death by his wife, Nancy, who is now serving a life term for murder.<br><br>Greenwich police were called to Kissel's home at 9:42 a.m. today, where they found the dead man, said Lt. Daniel Allen, a department spokesman.<br><br>The police are treating the death as a homicide, the statement said. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aHRwlbzPFh1A&refer=asia">www.bloomberg.com</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>