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Suicide banker found hanged in five-star hotel had blown a fortune on women and drugs
By James Millbank http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l?ITO=1490
Last updated at 12:58 PM on 04th January 2009
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A senior HSBC banker found hanged in a five-star London hotel is believed to have spent tens of thousands of pounds on cocaine and women in the months leading up to his death.
Christen Schnor, who was independently wealthy, had regularly gone missing from his six-figure post as he embarked on a personal journey of destruction.
Sources say Mr Schnor, who was a close friend of the Danish royal family, had been squandering large chunks of his family’s fortune. (more at link above)
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Credit crunch banker leaps to his death in front of express train
By Christopher Leake http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... train.html
The City was in shock last night after the apparent suicide of a millionaire financier haunted by the pressures of dealing with the credit crunch.
Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire.
Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world’s financial markets went into meltdown.
The death of the respected 47-year-old City figure evokes memories of the 1929 Wall Street crash in America and comes as: (more at link above)
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Indicted Banker's Desperate Murder-Suicide
Iowa Father Killed Wife, Four Small Children Before Slamming Van Into Highway Abutment
By DAVID SCHOETZ
March 26, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4521545&page=1
A desperate Iowa banker facing federal embezzlement and money laundering charges murdered his wife and four young children in their home before killing himself yesterday by slamming the family minivan into a concrete highway abutment, Iowa City police announced Tuesday evening. (more at link above)
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JURY SAYS BARNEY COMMITTED SUICIDE; Banker's Widow Testifies That He Had Been Depressed for Several Days Before the Shooting. O'HANLON AGAINST VERDICT Coroners' Physician Declares It Could Not Have Been a Case of Suicide -- Died Under Anaesthetic.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.h ... 946697D6CF
After listening to testimony for more than an hour and deliberating for ten minutes, a Coroner's jury rendered a verdict yesterday to the effect that the late Charles T. Barney, formerly President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, came to his death by hemorrhage from a pistol shot wound, inflicted with suicidal intent. (more at link above)
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Ruined Madoff Investor's Gruesome Suicide Scene http://gawker.com/5117204/ruined-madoff ... cide-scene
Thierry de la Villehuchet, CEO of Access International Advisors, a money-management operation who placed investors' funds in Madoff vehicles, stabbed himself to death with a box cutter after taking sleeping pills, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who spoke to Bloomberg. (more at link above)
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Real-Estate Executive Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123127267562558295.html
CHICAGO -- 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. (more at link above)
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German Billionaire Adolf Merckle Commits Suicide
January 6th, 2009
Via: Reuters: http://news.google.com/news?nolr=1&hl=e ... tnG=Search
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 he took his own life,” a family statement said.
(more at link above)
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Banker Suicide: Manager of Secondary Marketing Stabs Herself to Death
December 22nd, 2008 http://cryptogon.com/?p=5802
Keep 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:
An autopsy of Joplin banker Kristy Hunt has revealed she died of self-inflicted wounds, the Joplin Police Department said Thursday.
Hunt, 49, reportedly worked as secondary market manager for Community Bank & Trust’s mortgage department at the bank’s 414 E. 32nd St. location in Joplin, before resigning late last week. (more at link above)
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Kevin of Cryptogon
comments on the Madoff case:
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 preemptively adding a story, this story, to the Assassination category. 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. I could be wrong, but far less serious situations than this have produced corpses.
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Julius Baer CEO: Suicide http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/id ... 05?sp=true
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 the banker had committed suicide.
Swiss news website 20Minuten cited two unnamed independent sources as saying it was a case of suicide.
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Senior Barclays Executive, in Charge of Assets Worth £133 Billion in 21 Countries, Killed by Street Gang
September 30th, 2008 http://cryptogon.com/?p=4300
Via: Times Online:
Detectives hunting the killers of a senior banking executive are today hunting for at least five men who are believed to have been caught on CCTV running from the scene of the street attack early on Sunday morning.
Frank McGarahan, 45, the chief operating officer of Barclays Wealth, in charge of assets worth £133 [...]
