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4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; "From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds"

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The ugly rash of financial services executive suicides appears to have spread once again. Following the jumping deaths of 2 London bankers and a former-Fed economist in the US, The Denver Post reports Richard Talley, founder and CEO of American Title, was found dead in his home from self-inflicted wounds - from a nail-gun. Talley's company was under investigation from insurance regulators.

 

Via The Denver Post,

Richard Talley, 57, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death late Tuesday, an agency spokesman confirmed Thursday.

 

It was unclear how long the investigation had been ongoing or its primary focus.

 

A coroner's spokeswoman Thursday said Talley was found in his garage by a family member who called authorities. They said Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.

 

Also unclear is whether Talley's suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which regulates title companies.

 

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A checkered past?

Before coming to Colorado, Talley was a former regional financial officer at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Chicago, where he met his wife, Cheryl, a vice president at the company. The two married in 1989.

 

Talley had formed a number of companies, some now defunct, according to the Colorado secretary of state's office. Among them: American Escrow, Clear Title, Clear Creek Financial Holdings, Swift Basin, Sumar, American Real Estate Services, and the American Alliance of Real Estate Professionals.

 

It would appear, unfortunately, that Mr. Talley was not an entirely honest man...

Talley's 1989 wedding announcement in the Chicago Tribune noted he was "a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic swimming team."

 

A spokeswoman for USA Swimming on Thursday said Talley was not on the team.

 

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Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:19 | 4414882 TheAnswerIs42
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I accidentally shot myself with a nail gun.

Was holding 2 2x4's to splice them together and forgot to check the nail size in the magazine, turned out they were 5" nails.

Went right thru the 2x4's and also my palm...

Youch!

Size does matter.

Learned the hard way.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:26 | 4414886 Son of Loki
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I keep our nail gun locked up and place the nails in a separte location, away from the kids, like they told me in the Nail Gun Store.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:25 | 4414887 cherokeepilot
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Haven't read all the posts but if you ever were hit by a nail from a nail gun, you would wonder how one could possibly shoot one's self 7 or 8 times with one shot or more to the head.  Boris nailed it when he said in Russia sometimes people shoot themselves a couple of times in the head, yah, right. Suicide my ass!!

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:44 | 4414926 AdvancingTime
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It does sound like he wasd determined doesn't it!

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 20:18 | 4416050 The Abstraction...
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If the nails dont match the callibre of the nailgun, he had to be working for the Clintons.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:36 | 4414907 Mesquite
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Micro Biologists

Journalists

Now Bankers

Hmmm..

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 11:42 | 4414921 AdvancingTime
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Nailed it!  But seriously it is nails that kill people and not the nail guns.

 

One last try to be seriuos, as a contractor all I can say is ouch!

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:13 | 4415009 InjectTheVenom
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You didn't nail that !

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:15 | 4415015 Rentier88
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Wow he was 57?  Either that was airbrushed picture to hell and back or really old picture, sure didn't look 57 there.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 13:36 | 4415168 Smartie37
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If you look at this much more recent picture,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553964/CEO-commits-suicide-nail... ,
Then it's easy to see that the reason he "offed" himself was that he finally figured out why his "lovely wife" only ever wanted anal......

Austin Powers said it best!

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:20 | 4415026 marcusfenix
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was this guy high or drunk or in any way chemically impaired?

he had to have been, otherwise I don't see how a human, no matter how depressed or frightened or guilt ridden could have put seven or eight shots from a nail gun into themselves. I think it's pretty safe to say that after the first two or three he would have come to conclusion that this was not the ideal way to off himself and switched to sucking exhaust from his tailpipe in the garage. 

or something similar.

so this guy was either FUBAR on bath salts or...

could there be a serial killer that targets bankesters on the loose?

stay tuned.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:24 | 4415032 Dimons jock
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Like most, I'm calling bullshit - everyone knows a banker would never pick up a power tool, let alone attempt to operate it. I also heard he put on a black & decker short before taking care of this business.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:33 | 4415054 Johnny Cocknballs
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Again, this guy didn't work in financial services.  For the past 15 years, as indicated in his linkedin profile, he worked in title insurance and real estate.

Hardly Jamie Dimon. 

ZH had gone full retard regarding this guy's death.  Fuckin' title insurance?  Probably the worst thing you could accuse him of is being the sort of guy who asks if its hot enough for you on the elevator.  His widow volunteers at Samaritan House for fuck's sake.

 

I'll save my fine cham-pan-yah for when someone doing great harm takes a few 10 pennies to the cranium. 

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:50 | 4415087 Lumberjack
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Here is a "suicide" of another financial advisor who discovered info regarding the wind power industry.

 

https://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/15/news/mid-maine/wilton-columnist-f...

 

Another person who was the head of the Ocean Institute and in finance died in a hot tub. Most likely after discovering what was going on too.

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=735_1281453104

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 13:01 | 4415112 Restcase
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Failing businessman may have borrowed from America's friendly, neighborhood "shadow bankers" (who happen to collect with nail guns).

That said, there are enough skeletons rattling around property markets (and their financiers) to provoke a few suicides. I like to think this guy was involved in title issues surrounding the Obama/Reszko real estate transfer.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:23 | 4415538 formadesika3
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I live in Centennial but didn't know the victim. Unless there was a suicide note - and there is no indication there was - it seems highly premature for the Arapahoe County Coroner to be ruling such an unusual case a suicide.

It doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the abilities of the County Coroner's office here.

Any unbiased observer presented with the facts released thus far would have to conclude it was anything but a suicide.

Sun, 02/09/2014 - 04:02 | 4416810 bearish1
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LOL, Hey Cockballs! Banksters NEED title and escrow to complete a loan.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:36 | 4415065 Demdere
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so much to look forward to, given the Great Worldwide Depression the lying bastards have helped produce.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 12:45 | 4415081 Loanman26
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The insurance regulators eh?

Title company handling all the state of Colorado HUD foreclosures.

Seems that an audit was coming and he didnt want to deal with the results.

Or someone that wanted to make it look as such.

 

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:57 | 4415138 NoelConfidence
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Detective - "So doc, obviously the man had absolutely no carpentry skills and we can call it an accident and go home."

Coroner - "This was no carpentry accident. Look at those telltale mitres. His dovetails are atrocious - look -  no biscuits - imagine the shame."

Detecive - "I'll leave it under your doormat."

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 13:54 | 4415187 ZeroFreedom
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I love this trend.

More heads should roll from these crooks.

How do we trade this?

Not sure if there is an over/under to bet. 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:07 | 4415227 Flying Tiger Comics
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"Nailed it."

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:18 | 4415244 grunk
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Police are questioning Bob Vila.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:32 | 4415267 Poofter Priest
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I'm sure it was not suicide.

He just tripped while doing an 'at home diy' project.

It was an accident.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:38 | 4415275 Rearranging Dec...
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this is a rather loose connection to the banking industry no? Where is the connection to the Federal Reserve or Wall St.?  Drexel Burnham in Chicago??? come on now and you wonder why people use those pejorative terms about us Zero Hedge set. 

 

This is really stretching it and not indicative of anything other than a title company that probably ripped off clients or did a piss poor underwriting job.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 15:23 | 4415359 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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If you illegally foreclose on properties or sell properties that you don't hold the deed outright to you need the title insurance company in on the scam to hide things...

Besides HUD one would need to see exactly what clients this company had. I can think of alot of people and companies with ALOT of money at stake over illegal property foreclosures and sales of properties they didn't legally have sole claims on titles (trying to coverup hanky panky and clawback lawsuites on profits) that would want this guy suicided if he blabbed about covering up information related to hanky panky like this.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:17 | 4415512 Ban KKiller
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Just one side of the crimes his firm committed.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:15 | 4415509 Ban KKiller
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See Lorraine Brown, Lender Processing Services, Inc., Doc X, DOJ.GOV. THAT WILL GET YOU UP TO SPEED. Banksters need title companies to generate forged docs to be used in illegal foreclosures. He was involved in destroying peoples lives and was going to rat out the Banksters.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:39 | 4415279 shutdown
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Apparently his disagreement with someone was settled out of court. 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:39 | 4415281 Sufiy
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Paul Roberts: Market Manipulations Become More Extreme, More Desperate 


  Gold is hitting hard on the door of $1270 after which the Gold shorts will have the "religious experience." Gold market manipulation is still ongoing, but participants becomes more desperate by the day. You can find a lot of comments these days on the number of recent "suicided bankers" and some parallels drawn to the ongoing investigations in FOREX and Gold markets   manipulations. Quite a few FOREX head traders are already left the major banks or being suspended. These games can not last forever, particularly when China is buying the record amount of Gold and vaults in the West are empty now.   Paul Roberts provides us with very good observations of the mechanics of Gold market manipulations and we continue our investigation started this weekend with Eric Sprott and Dimitri Speck. http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/paul-roberts-market-manipulations.ht...

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 14:42 | 4415284 sadmamapatriot
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I think we are up to 5 or 6. This is not th efourth suicided bankster.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 15:18 | 4415348 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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You know if they really wanted to make a statement they would have nailed him to a cross....

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 15:22 | 4415363 Winston Smith 2009
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Could be statistically irrelevant and related to the same sort of cognitive bias that comes about with things like mass deaths of birds and fish - once one hits the news, more media attention is then paid to something that actually happens quite frequently leading to the incorrect impression that there's a surge in such deaths.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:45 | 4415589 Poofter Priest
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...except the part about the nail gun and it being suicide...it could be 'irrelevant'.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:06 | 4415629 Absinthe Minded
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Come on let us enjoy our delusional belief that this may start a fad.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:25 | 4415664 Kelley
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Keep in mind that it's four violent deaths, not just deaths. 

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:23 | 4415785 Kelley
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PS. Pfft! You actually believe the guy committed suicide by using 7 or 8 nails from a nail gun?? SMH. 

 

Most of us got suspicious with the 2nd nail.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 15:33 | 4415397 monad
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Bad cops. They will get hung out too, there are a lot of cops on the Clinton death list.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 15:50 | 4415444 dogmete
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He was probably a coke addict - and had coke addict-brain damage too.

 

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:20 | 4415527 sparkydoodle
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Sissy banker! A real man would just use a hammer.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:31 | 4415551 sparkydoodle
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NY Governor Cuomo proposes new legislation limiting the number of nails that can be held in a nail gun to 5.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:45 | 4415590 BugOut
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Makes one wonder what the elite have in store for us, eating their own and all I mean.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:54 | 4415610 NoelConfidence
Sat, 02/08/2014 - 16:57 | 4415614 Graph
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Girl with the Dragon tattoo did it.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:31 | 4415675 Kelley
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One has to admire how he didn't give up after the first half dozen nails because most people would have given up after the first one:

"OUCH! Dang that hurts! This suicide thingie isn't all it's cracked up to be. I quit!...anybody got a bandaid?"

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:44 | 4415703 Grin Bagel
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This reminds me of the young Asian woman in San Francisco area that committed suicide by crawling into an automatic dishwasher and getting the door closed and it went through all cycles. However my heart goes out to her even as I remember the story.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:46 | 4415707 Kelley
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According to the Denver Post article, some of the nails were fired into his abdomen - because as we all know if you want to kill yourself there's nothing like a nail to the abdomen to bring about a quick death, except for several nails to the abdomen.

Not that the victim would get distracted or anything by the very first nail, let alone nails number six and seven.

The plus side to using a nail gun to the stomach is if you're not really sure if you want to die, you could always stop after the first three or four nails. 

That last bit of advice goes out the window if someone else is pulling the trigger for you.

IOW, maybe our banker friend didn't volunteer for the assignment after all, in which case the medical examiner is as corrupt as the banker if not more so.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:48 | 4415712 Youri Carma
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5th

Financial world shaken by 4 bankers' apparent suicides in a week

http://on.rt.com/wzo9cq

Streak of bankers’ deaths
Dueker’s apparent suicide was the fourth among financial experts in a week.

A 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, William Broeksmit, was found dead on January 26 in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London.

The next day, January 27, Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, 51, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok. Police said he could have committed suicide. Mr. Slym was staying on a 22th floor with his wife, and was attending a board meeting in the Thai capital.

Another tragic incident occurred on January 28, when a 39-year-old Gabriel Magee, a JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of its European headquarters in London.

 

Jim Willie on Bankster Suicides: Bankers Were Taken Out to Prevent FOREX Fraud Whistle-blowing!
7 February 2014
, by The Doc (Silver Doctors)
http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-on-bankster-suicides-bankers-were-taken-out-to-prevent-forex-fraud-whistle-blowing/

Yesterday we reported that Steve Quayle’s banker source “V” has informed him that the recent rash of banker “suicides” are part of a hit list that includes dozens of bankers including a supposed high level Citi executive.

Today, none other than Jim Willie himself has provided SD readers with an exclusive report on the banker deaths.

The Golden Jackass states that the suicided bankers had flipped during prosecution investigation, and were assassinated to prevent insider testimony of bank fraud from reaching the prosecution.

Willie, who recently sat down with The Doc for an exclusive interview revealing the “Smoking Gun” proving gold rehypothecation by US officials,  emphasizes that we are NOT seeing bad bankers removed, we are witnessing bankers taken out who are on the verge of revealing BIG DATA details.

The banker hits are being done by the bad guys to keep men from singing after they flipped during prosecution investigation.

All have been working with police teams and continental cops like Interpol.

The STL Fed guy discovered some Bush giant multi-$B fraud and was ready to report it.

The STL Fed economist was hit by the Bush gang, before he sang against them.

The London bankers had begun to sing to Interpol on Mafia Vatican connections on massive FOREX fraud thefts.

It is unclear which is bigger:  Vatican links to narco money, or links to FOREX fraud theft, or their control room for Nazis.

WE ARE NOT SEEING BAD BANKERS REMOVED

WE ARE SEEING BANKERS REMOVED WHO ARE ON THE VERGE OF REVEALING BIG DATA DETAILS

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 17:51 | 4415720 ThisIsBob
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Nail guns don't kill people.  People kill people.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:28 | 4415810 f16hoser
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Attempted murder of a 6th: http://www.silverhoarders.com/content.php?2794-Banker-Shot-by-Hitman-at-...

This is starting to get good!

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 20:01 | 4416010 formadesika3
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-- Police say Mr. George was specifically targeted.

It will probably turn out he hired his own hitman. Suicide by hitman.

It happens all the time (in the movies).

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 21:32 | 4416201 Estrella
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Yes, the story you link looks like he was targeted by a hitman, but, why do you say #6? This would be #5 right?

Sun, 02/09/2014 - 20:27 | 4418400 MeelionDollerBogus
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LOL.

In Assault on Wall Street it got pasted all over the news that banksters were getting killed.

In real life the MSM who are owned by the banksters would never actually admit their kind are being picked off by their former victims.

Sounds like dis here guy needs moar insurance for his incimaldentals and axemadentals. You know, in case he incidentally gets an axe in his dentures.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:30 | 4415812 PrintemDano
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Was Mr. Talley friends with Hillary Clinton?

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:38 | 4415820 Seychelles
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If wife had been appropriately suspicious after he ordered that St. Sebastian medal, this could have been prevented.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:46 | 4415846 NoelConfidence
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I really hope Talley's life insurance policy covers this sort of thing.

Lets hope Mrs. Talley is a babe because she's going to need a good, long, hard,  sweaty, kind of nailing after this is all sorted out.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 18:47 | 4415847 Angus McHugepenis
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Staples... it's that easy!

 

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 19:36 | 4415956 22winmag
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This post is an early candidate for #1 most read, most commented on story of the year...

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 21:27 | 4416193 Estrella
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Ever wonder what a banker was doing with a nail gun? Not exactly the type of thing you would expect him to have.

Sat, 02/08/2014 - 21:35 | 4416205 FredFlintstone
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He owned a title agency. They showed a picture of his tract home. More of a Rotary Club guy, not a big shot.

Sun, 02/09/2014 - 23:14 | 4418786 TheUnwisestWizard
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The answer is obvious... Having been someone that pissed off a big company, I can tell you this.

 

He was nailed in the torso first, maybe from far away so that only the nail stuck.  This was to get information and perhaps passwords and even more data.  The person that killed him did so in a public fashion as a warning to others.  He was being investigated by the insurance department which means that he may have 'leaked' sensative info or was planning on doing so to get himself out of trouble.

 

Whoever he was going to tell on obviously killed him.  There is no other killer or person that would have sufficient motivation in doing so.  In the process of killing him, they extracted more info, connections passwords and ultimately pulled his card in order to keep the bigger pieces of information in tact. 

 

I promise that the insurance investigation will now fade into the background and there will be no real justice.  He was pinched and popped... plain and simple.

 

People overlook obvious things such as motive.  Only the greater crime has the motive to kill.  None of his 'victim's' really care because they all were trying to get a free and clear home.  His 'fake' docs, while illegal, were probably what got him killed but not from a victim... from the investor/banking big money folks... the people that set up banks and industry and have billions and trillions invested.

 

If he could damage them or hurt the 'system' - he would have to be taken out in a very public way.  He may have even threatened with leverage a high ranking person so again don't think this was any kind of vigilante...

 

Rats eating each other in a sack... 

Mon, 02/10/2014 - 09:23 | 4419447 Fezter
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Long on Home Depot until proposed Nail Gun Registration.

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