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Banker Suicides Return: DSK's Hedge Fund Partner Jumps From 23rd Floor Apartment
The summer, thankfully, has been largely bereft of the dismal trend of bankers committing suicide, but as Bloomberg reports, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the IMF, was found dead Thursday after apparently taking his own life by jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv. This is the 16th financial services executive death this year.
Bloomberg reports that Thierry Leyne, the French-Israeli entrepreneur who last year started an investment firm with former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has died. He was 48.
Leyne died yesterday in Tel Aviv, according to his assistant at the firm, who asked not to be identified. Le Figaro newspaper reported that he committed suicide.
Last year, Leyne joined Strauss-Kahn in establishing the Paris-traded firm Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners after the former IMF head bought a 20 percent stake to help develop the investment-banking franchise of Leyne’s company, Luxembourg-based Anatevka SA. Leyne had taken Anatevka public in March 2013 before joining forces with Strauss-Kahn, commonly referred to in France as DSK.
The new partnership -- usually called LSK & Partners by using both men’s initials -- was part of Strauss-Kahn’s efforts to rebuild his post-IMF life after he was charged in 2011 of criminal sex, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and the forcible touching of a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn denied the charges, which were later dropped. He settled the maid’s lawsuit in 2012.
Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex, according to Israeli officials.
Leyne, who resided in Tel Aviv, built his career as a financier in France, Israel and Luxembourg. He founded the investment firm Assya Capital in 1994 and listed it on Euronext in Paris in 2001. Leyne merged the business with Global Equities Capital Markets in 2010 to provide financial advice and private banking to clients in eastern Europe, Le Figaro reported.
Anatevka, which had a market value of 50 million euros ($63 million) when Strauss-Kahn purchased his stake, controlled the merged entity, known as Assya Compagnie Financiere, offering asset management, brokerage, corporate finance and capital investment. Anatevka had a staff of about 100 people in six countries -- Luxembourg, Belgium, Monaco, Israel, Switzerland and Romania -- in September 2013.
In 1996, Leyne founded the company Axfin, one of the first independent investment firms in France, according to the website of Assya Capital. Axfin listed on the Paris stock exchange in 1999 before it was bought by Nuremberg, Germany-based Consors Discount Broker AG. Leyne was the supervisory board chairman of Consors France until the end of 2002.
Leyne was born in September 1965, according to French public records. He held French and Israeli citizenship, Figaro said. He had an engineering degree from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, his LinkedIn profile shows.
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This is the 16th financial services executive death this year...
1 - William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.
2 - Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.
3 - Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.
4 - Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.
5 - Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
6 - Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.
7 - Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago. No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.
8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.
9 - James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say whatcaused the death
10 - Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of LIRR train
11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28, a trader at Levy Capital, formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment.
12 - Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, the former CEO of Dutch bank ABN Amro found dead at home near Amsterdam with wife and daughter.
13 - Li Jianhua, 49, the director of China's Banking Regulatory Commission died of a sudden heart attack
14 - Lydia _____, 52 - jumped to her suicide from the 14th floor of Bred-Banque Populaire in Paris
15 - Julian Knott, 45 - killed wife and self with a shotgun in Jefferson Township, New Jersey
16 - Thierry Leyne, 48 - jumped from 23rd floor apartment in Tel Aviv.
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thankfully?
It's been a while. Welcome back.
Well, at least it's no longer accountants and CFOs.
That's something, but what?
Jump Fed Jump..?..
Couldn't make it to the 33rd floor?
Can Bernocchio fly? Mr. Yellen? Timmaaaaaay?
Push them all. Fukcers.
Gravity is Anti Semitic.
is he the first Jewish banker to take the plunge??? Maybe all these banker deaths right from the start were a to provide a string of events which could help alert other Jews that something is about to happen...AND today is the signal as one of their tribe members took the hit. (for ekm, was this an assasination?)
Its like hes the first seal that jumps in the water and he never made it back up alive...hes the sacrificial lamb to notify the other tribemembers that the waters ahead maybe dangerous and to act accordingly.
truely a recovery i can embrace! retrace, chart plez? hockey stick!
Another dead jew banker. Thousands more to go.
death of sub-human...
not really a emperical death, nominal.
Kinky!
French-Israeli Banker?
R.I.P. MF
It looks like Tim Rifat's Psychic Warfare is working like a charm!
For those of you that listen to Rense, you know what I am talking about, lol!
23rd floor you say?
doesen't add up to 7, but still, how very enigmatic.
Yoo Towers.
Yahoo. Oojay.
23rd floor you say?...
And the devil...led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; for it is written,
‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You,’
and,
‘On their hands they will bear You up,
So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Luke 4:9-12
What is it about this ploy that makes it so tempting to the chosen one(s)? It's certainly not common sense.
On the other hand, do you suppose he scored a perfect 10?
jmo.
He wasn't disgraced he was framed.
He didn't jump he was thrown.
ohh my
my
sweet baby no
help him
someone help him
ohh the humanity
fuck him next
next
next
into saturn infinity
http://youtu.be/G12X4EE57O0
good one, lulz.
"Watch out below!" I certainly hope no one was hurt when the creep hit the sidewalk or whatever... I've seen it happen in Manhattan: rich widower bridge champion leapt from her at Central Park South apartment, she died but gravely wounded an innocent pedestrian who just happened to be walking where she was to splat herself. The rich are grotesque even during suicide.
Tel Aviv By Night:
http://www.israelvalley.com/news/2014/10/23/44786/france-israel-dramatiq...
These are not jumps...they are pushed off's.
Certainly if it were me, I would much more enjoy 6 Bottles of Mouton Rothschild 82 and a few bottles of Benzodiazepines. So much less disturbing than a freefall like Building 7...
Yeah but it's not the free fall that's so disturbing..
It's the sudden stop.
You got a point there; which brings us back to your avatar.
Watch for the bubble in first floor banker condos.
Edit
How do I delete 4 multiple posts no delete button?
Follow the instructions on the upper right of the screen. 1) position nail gun to temple 2) squeeze like you mean it.
THROWN OFF
JUMPED OFF
Thrown off might be a better word? Like Ron Whites bar adventure!!
Jump you Fuckers......
It only takes 15 seconds to reach terminal velocity.
Zio Banker Velocity = 9.81 NM/S (Newton meters per second squared)
i like the trend
But does he leave behind a hot wife/girlfriend who now needs consoling?
Mossad?
<--- FSB
<--- Mossad
Gonna be a good weekend! ;)
pods
Yup...Ebola in NYC and now this....this weekend is starting off on the right direction!
"Jumped" .... is that what they are calling it today? Did he happen to have multiple self inflicted nail gun shots in the back of his head?
I declare that it was a drunk Russain, on the 23rd floor, with a snow plow...
He shoulda carried a Clipboard. And disposable mask and nitrile gloves.
Ignore the footprint on his butt.
Falling with style!
AMF. Adios Mother Fucker....
Great replacement for IMF.
Nobody will mourn one less tribal bankster in the world. I'm surprised it's a Jew who did himself though, being that they usually pin shit on goy to take the fall first
Must have had a falling out with DSK. Wrong side of the bed...near the window?
Adios comes from "A Dios" -- "With God", as in "Go with God"
"Alucifer" might be more apt. IOW... AMF = Alucifer, MFer.
I think Adiablo is what you're looking for.
And for those of us playing along with all the stuff from V. Guerrilla Economist and W., just FYI: this Sacrifice/Suicide of Thierry Leyne happened just hours before the unusual Solar Eclipse conjunction with planet Venus. A solar system event like that would not go unnoticed to our Bankster cult players. (The Moon "Eye of Horus" lines up with Sun "Eye of Ra" and also line up with their Mother/Wife Isis. It is their holiest of Trinities. It is the root philosophy of Birth-Death-Rebirth and lies at the esoteric foundation of all financial alchemy.)
Which is worse; pavement, nail gun or snow plow?
nail plow.
Gatlin Nail Gun with Hollow Tipped Nails.
100 yard angled em-bank-ment.
too easy death for him.
Yeah, he should've been nailgunning himself on the way down
Just when he thought he was on top of the world and could actually fly!
Financier Resume'.
We have a long,long way to go!
"Yoo Towers"
Seriously?
Jew Towers were already taken so they got the homophone.
That sounds rather anti-semantic and homophonic.
LOL
lmao +1
good grief. LOL.
http://www.starck.com/en/
Some pretty cool shit, actually.
Not sure if he R+Ds Iron Man suits or not...
http://www.starck.com/en/
Some pretty cool shit, actually.
Not sure if he R+Ds Iron Man suits or not...
Tyler....How can we forget two more....
From Belgium : covered here on ZH but not included in the list above: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-20/bnp-banker-his-wife-and-nephew-...
From Liechtenstein: http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/08/bank-frick-ceo-allegedly-ki...
I'd recognize that nose anywhere...
jumped/pushed ... all the same ...
Ok so the fucker's dead now but when are we gonna find out how much of other people's money he lost?
Never.
Chambermaid? wtf
In three words: A good start.
It's a good start...
I guess me and @eddiebe were both thinking of the same lawyer jokes....
Investigators will conclude that he must have been despondent over a parking ticket or something. Case closed.
Bankers seem to have poor balance. Pun intended.
There was a fresh banana peel...slightly smeered..
on the floor nearby. Plus his clamshell phone was still open and the connection to Guadalupe's mediteratenan cuisine was still on the line.
"Yes this is take out! Are there? Hello? Hello?"
Yea, we got a two-fur on this guy.
Way to get her done boys.
A jewish banker kills himself. I know this sick circle-jerk will go for hours.
Keep them coming!
now why would he jump? Guys in his primes and DSK will no doubt open so many doors! Wonder if the Mossad boyz helped him with flying lessons!
He either a.) lost the wrong persons money, or b.) found out too much about what he didn't need to know.
Sympathy.. now let's see.. Where is that in the dictionary ??
Oh yea, between sh*t and syphilis..
when is Jamie going to join that list?
Well, when it does happen, I hope they put his presidential cuff links on his eyes to pay Charon with when they send his bankster ass off to Styx.
Only people with a conscience kill themselves.
HTF would you or anyone else know that?
Ya don't.
Thats proof this guy was pushed.
Only people with a conscience kill themselves.
this is what happens when you restrict gun ownership
Just keep track by # for all of them that are dead so far through foul play!
Want to see the likes of Soros, Kissinger, Brezezinski, Bernanke, Yellen, Dimon and Blankfein splattered on the pavement of Freedom Tower. Then of course the Royal American Bush family, followed by the occupants at Windsor and last but not least the "prize" Rothschild Central that have made it all possible!!!...
Only then will the campaign be a complete success!
Proof that Siverstein was involved in the 9/11 plot: He hasn't sued anyone for defamation.
An American, not US subject.
"If the free-falls don't fit, you must conspiracy admit."
C'mon - what good is it to be a thief if you can't enjoy it? He had help in his law of gravity experiment...
How's that song go?
It's raining bankers, hallelujah...
Yeah, and Bengazhi was not a terrorist attack, just some random Muslims with RPG's. Silly little people believe what they are told. Just give them their Obama phone and Obamacare and watch Jerry Springer all day.
That might be true if you believe that there was a consulate in Benghazi in the first place (There wasn't)
Jeez, he should have ben more forward thinking:
Guess Who’s Profiting From the Destruction of Gaza
Plus:
Israel Will Invade Lebanon; D.C. Invents New Terror Groupthere's always money in giving tens of billions to Israel, giving them diplomati cover to destroy tens of billions worth of Palestinian or Lebanese schools, hospitals, UN facilities and so forth {each of them, of course, had been hiding rockets - just take their word}, then giving tens of billions more to each side - and requiring that Gaza reconstruction materials be bought from Israel... essentially having Israel get direct loans, then get more American $ to rebuild what American $ paid to destroy.
It's an exciting time to be a dual citizen bankster!
I'll add this: The truth about Google.
And Newsweek is "Back in print"!
Israel and the Zionists subscribe not just to OPM, but to OPMBM: Other People's Money, Bombs, and Misery.
A non "return" able American, not US subject.
"'Return?!' Is that like return to sender?!"
THe only good news of the week
bring it on BITCHEZ
What is it with these guys and multi-story buildings...?
'Telefon'...?
"Life From A Window" - The Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9VT92CrtI
Any fingerprints on the suicide note pen... Just asking....
case already closed.
99 Banksters of Fear on the Wall,
99 Banksters of Fear,
If one of the banksters should happen to fall,
98 Banksters of Fear on the Wall.
I guess we're at 84 or whatever now, but ...
Just hours earlier, De Margerie had met Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at his country residence outside Moscow to discuss foreign investment in Russia. In his speech hours before the plane crash that took his life, de Margerie said U.S. and European Union sanctions on the country were “unfair and unproductive,” and that he opposed efforts to render it “isolated from the major global economic and political process.
De Margerie was a keynote speaker last spring at Putin’s annual economic summit in St. Petersburg—an event that many Western executives decided to skip—where he signed a deal with Russian oil group Lukoil (LUKOY) to develop shale oil in Western Siberia. De Margerie also pressed ahead with major Russian investment, including the $27 billion Yamal natural gas venture in the Arctic led by Russian gas group Novatek (NVTK:LI), even as sanctions against Novatek and one of its owners, Gennady Timchenko, have complicated financing.
De Margerie told Bloomberg News recently that he was “doing everything” to move the Yamal project forward, in keeping with his belief that politics and business should be kept separate. Total, the world’s No. 4 non-state-owned energy group, has said that Russia could become its largest supplier of oil and gas by the end of this decade, up from its fourth-biggest supplier in 2013.
De Margerie’s death removes from the scene a businessman who rarely shied away from geopolitical debates and became one of Russia’s most outspoken allies in its efforts to avoid economic quarantine, willing to say what others only dared think. Although European corporate giants from Siemens AG to Renault SA (RNO) have built close relationships with Russia, most business leaders have preferred to keep their lobbying private to avoid offending governments committed to punishing Putin.
PetroDollar War – French Energy Giant Total CEO AssassinatedWhat a great day. Nina Pham is cured and now this.
I think we should all, as a community, of sorts, try to get Nina pham to pose for Penthouse.
She's pretty damn hot, and I think... she may have some boobies, too.
Do you actually believe this garbage? I don't. Just like both of Madoff's sons are dead now. Do you believe this guy died of cancer right after this picture was taken? Bullcrap. They are all being relocated.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20724104,00.html
Silver For The People
Its cheapest to clean them. They just think they're being relocated. Its easiest this way.
h/t the cleaners.
23rd floor, classic.
Almost like 'someone' was spreading the word -- DON'T TALK!
Just what do you mean by thankfully?
aye, hiss'd a bit at that word too. . .
...and 25489 to go (ehh, jump)...
I hope he didn't damage any cars.
Ok who had him in their Dead Pool?
Such efforts by the elite class and bankers should be appreciated and encouraged.
Geez, he didn't stick around for the moar QE? Aw that's a shame.
Dead men tell no "lies" or "truths"...
What makes this one particularly unusual is where it happened along with the trappings of his associates!
Anyone up for a Samson Option moment?... If we could only make it happen and isolate to just Tel Aviv!!!
...This is the 16th financial services executive death this year...
not nearly enough, more "encoragment" needed.
He must not have 'bought the dip' this time' -- so he didn't 'bounce'
Investment bankers are good to the last drop much like well brewed coffee. We should not let these acts of selflessness go unpraised. Now if only the remainder of the Investment Banking industry would follow suit
we could have our reset on the global economy much sooner.
Anybody seen Sudden Debt? I wonder if he went to Tel Aviv for W/E.
'Now serving number 17... Number 17... Number 17, please approach the open window...'
Perhaps this will start a trend with Federal Reserve suicides.
Single file out the window they go, ally oop.
When are the Central Bankers going to start doing this? If they followed suit, we just might be able to get this country back on track. Oh well, one can always hope.
Based on that list, it appears the most common choice of dispatch for the sociopathic bankster mind, is to hurl oneself from a large stationary object and let gravity finish the job.
Indeed. And it's probably one of the easiest/cleanest ways to suicide the victim.
really. very difficult if not impossible to find any evidence. Be interesting to find out more about his story; if there's going to be anymore. He was depressed ? Or what ?
There hasn't been one yet who has commited suicide by tearing his face off.
Why don't you create an article everyime a McDonalds employee jumps to their death? How about somebody in the tech industry? How about mechanics?
Oh nevermind thats right, just another non-story.
Frack the story, this is a service. WE need to promote this service to society.
He discovered that all the income from the firm’s holdings in the Hookers and Blow ETF was coming from DSK’s expense account.
He discovered that all the income from the firm’s holdings in the Hookers and Blow ETF was coming from DSK’s expense account.
When markets dive so do bankers.
dead bankers tell no truth
Dead bankers tell as much truth as the living ones.
Bankers never tell the truth.
I'd expect a few "accidents" to happen in Brazil as well. I think many in Brazil know exactly who the major "globalist" banksters and oligarchs are and what they want.
Soros and the CIA Now Banking on Neves to Defeat Rousseff
Still, the truth is probably that this is availability bias... probably, every year a certain amount of people in every profession, including banking/finance, die or kill themselves in accidents. I'm not sure there is anything like a trend here - certainly few very high up people died, and one or two of the nail gun incidents involved people who werent really [notwithstanding ZH cickbait headlines] in finance at all, let alone bankers [e.g. title insurance - that's insurance, not finance, and certainly not fuckin' banking].
We need the Blankfeins and the Rockefellers and Rothschilds to die in mysterious car accidents in the Alps, or to have their small plane John Kennedy Juniored by the usual suspects....
Remember the string of microbiologists, something like 100 of them died mysteriously? http://www.rense.com/general96/deadmicro.html
That made no sense either; but it was easy to speculate that they knew too much about some sinister and nefarious secret project.
Now we are in the midst of a string of deaths of financial types, each of whom die mysteriously with no apparent connection to each other and no apparent connection to any scandal. What did they know and why did their deaths all appear like suicides?
You know, it's really not a sign of civilizational health when even the average people on MSM comments sincerly hope their leaders get Ebola/kill themselves.
If by jump you mean forcibly thrown...