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Another Deutsche Banker And Former SEC Enforcement Attorney Commits Suicide

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Back on January 26, a 58-year-old former senior executive at German investment bank behemoth Deutsche Bank, William Broeksmit, was found dead after hanging himself at his London home, and with that, set off an unprecedented series of banker suicides throughout the year which included former Fed officials and numerous JPMorgan traders.

Following a brief late summer spell in which there was little if any news of bankers taking their lives, as reported previously, the banker suicides returned with a bang when none other than the hedge fund partner of infamous former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli entrepreneur, was found dead after jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv. 

Just a few brief hours later the WSJ reported that yet another Deutsche Bank veteran has committed suicide, and not just anyone but the bank's associate general counsel, 41 year old Calogero "Charlie" Gambino, who was found on the morning of Oct. 20, having also hung himself by the neck from a stairway banister, which according to the New York Police Department was the cause of death. We assume that any relationship to the famous Italian family carrying that last name is purely accidental.

Here is his bio from a recent conference which he attended:

Charlie J. Gambino is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel in the Regulatory, Litigation and Internal Investigation group for Deutsche Bank in the Americas. Mr. Gambino served as a staff attorney in the United Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement from 1997 to 1999. He also was associated with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom from 1999 to 2003. He is a frequent speaker at securities law conferences. Mr. Gambino is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

As a reminder, the other Deutsche Bank-er who was found dead earlier in the year, William Broeksmit, was involved in the bank's risk function and advised the firm's senior leadership; he was "anxious about various authorities investigating areas of the bank where he worked," according to written evidence from his psychologist, given Tuesday at an inquest at London's Royal Courts of Justice. And now that an almost identical suicide by hanging has taken place at Europe's most systemically important bank, and by a person who worked in a nearly identical function - to shield the bank from regulators and prosecutors and cover up its allegedly illegal activities with settlements and fines - is surely bound to raise many questions. 

The WSJ reports that Mr. Gambino had been "closely involved in negotiating legal issues for Deutsche Bank, including the prolonged probe into manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, and ongoing investigations into manipulation of currencies markets, according to people familiar with his role at the bank."

He previously was an associate at a private law firm and a regulatory enforcement lawyer from 1997 to 1999, according to his online LinkedIn profile and biographies for conferences where he spoke. But most notably, as his LinkedIn profile below shows, like many other Wall Street revolving door regulators, he started his career at the SEC itself where he worked from 1997 to 1999.

"Charlie was a beloved and respected colleague who we will miss. Our thoughts and sympathy are with his friends and family,” Deutsche Bank said in a statement.

Going back to the previous suicide by a DB executive, the bank said at the time of the inquest that Mr. Broeksmit “was not under suspicion of wrongdoing in any matter.” At the time of Mr. Broeksmit’s death, Deutsche Bank executives sent a memo to bank staff saying Mr. Broeksmit “was considered by many of his peers to be among the finest minds in the fields of risk and capital management.” Mr. Broeksmit had left a senior role at Deutsche Bank’s investment bank in February 2013, but he remained an adviser until the end of 2013. His most recent title was the investment bank’s head of capital and risk-optimization, which included evaluating risks related to complicated transactions.

A thread connecting Broeksmit to wrongdoing, however, was uncovered earlier this summer when Wall Street on Parade referenced his name in relation to the notorious at the time strategy provided by Deutsche Bank and others to allow hedge funds to avoid paying short-term capital gains taxes known as MAPS (see How RenTec Made More Than $34 Billion In Profits Since 1998: "Fictional Derivatives")

From Wall Street on Parade:

Broeksmit’s name first emerged in yesterday’s Senate hearing as Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Subcommittee, was questioning Satish Ramakrishna, the Global Head of Risk and Pricing for Global Prime Finance at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. Ramakrishna was downplaying his knowledge of conversations about how the scheme was about changing short term gains into long term gains, denying that he had been privy to any conversations on the matter. 

 

Levin than asked: “Did you ever have conversations with a man named Broeksmit?” Ramakrishna conceded that he had and that the fact that the scheme had a tax benefit had emerged in that conversation. Ramakrishna could hardly deny this as Levin had just released a November 7, 2008 transcript of a conversation between Ramakrishna and Broeksmit where the tax benefit had been acknowledged.

 

Another exhibit released by Levin was an August 25, 2009 email from William Broeksmit to Anshu Jain, with a cc to Ramakrishna, where Broeksmit went into copious detail on exactly what the scheme, internally called MAPS, made possible for the bank and for its client, the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund. (See Email from William Broeksmit to Anshu Jain, Released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.)

 

At one point in the two-page email, Broeksmit reveals the massive risk the bank is taking on, writing: “Size of portfolio tends to be between $8 and $12 billion long and same amount of short. Maximum allowed usage is $16 billion x $16 billion, though this has never been approached.”

 

Broeksmit goes on to say that most of Deutsche’s money from the scheme “is actually made by lending them specials that we have on inventory and they pay far above the regular rates for that.”

It would appear that with just months until the regulatory crackdown and Congressional kangaroo circus, Broeksmit knew what was about to pass and being deeply implicated in such a scheme, preferred to take the painless way out.

The question then is just what major regulatory revelation is just over the horizon for Deutsche Bank if yet another banker had to take his life to avoid being cross-examined by Congress under oath? For a hint we go back to another report, this time by the FT, which yesterday noted that Deutsche Bank will set aside just under €1bn towards the numerous legal and regulatory issues it faces in its third quarter results next week, the bank confirmed on Friday.

In a statement made after the close of markets, the Frankfurt-based lender said it expected to publish litigation costs of €894m when it announces its results for the July-September period on October 29.

 

The extra cash will add to Deutsche's already sizeable litigation pot, where the bank has yet to be fined in connection with the London interbank rate-rigging scandal.

 

It is also facing fines from US authorities over alleged mortgage-backed securities misselling and sanctions violations, which have already seen rivals hit with heavy fines.

 

Deutsche has also warned that damage from global investigations into whether traders attempted to manipulate the foreign-exchange market could have a material impact on the bank.

 

The extra charge announced on Friday will bring Deutsche's total litigation reserves to €3.1bn. The bank also has an extra €3.2bn in so-called contingent liabilities for fines that are harder to estimate. 

Clearly Deutsche Bank is slowly becoming Europe's own JPMorgan - a criminal bank whose past is finally catching up to it, and where legal fine after legal fine are only now starting to slam the banking behemoth. We will find out just what the nature of the latest litigation charge is next week when Deutsche Bank reports, but one thing is clear: in addition to mortgage, Libor and FX settlements, one should also add gold. Recall from around the time when the first DB banker hung himself: it was then that Elke Koenig, the president of Germany's top financial regulator, Bafin, said that in addition to currency rates, manipulation of precious metals "is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal."

It remains to be seen if Calogero's death was also related to precious metals rigging although it certainly would not be surprising. What is surprising, is that slowly things are starting to fall apart at the one bank which as we won't tire of highlighting, has a bigger pyramid of notional derivatives on its balance sheet than even JPMorgan, amounting to 20 times more than the GDP of Germany itself, and where if any internal investigation ever goes to the very top, then Europe itself, and thus the world, would be in jeopardy.

At this point it is probably worth reminding to what great lengths regulators would go just to make sure that Deutsche Bank would never be dragged into a major litigation scandal: recall that the chief enforcer of the SEC during the most critical period following the great crash of 2008, Robert Khuzami, worked previously from 2002 to 2009 at, drumroll, Deutsche Bank most recently as its General Counsel (see "Robert Khuzami Stands To Lose Up To $250,000 If He Pursues Action Against Deutsche Bank" and "Circle Jerk 101: The SEC's Robert Khuzami Oversaw Deutsche Bank's CDO, Has Recused Himself Of DB-Related Matters"). The same Khuzami who just landed a $5 million per year contract (with a 2 year guarantee) with yet another "law firm", Kirkland and Ellis. One wonders: if and when the hammer falls on Deutsche Bank, will it perchance be defended by the same K&E and its latest prominent hire, Robert Khuzami himself?       

But usually it is best to just avoid litigation altogether. Which is why perhaps sometimes it is easiest if the weakest links, those whose knowledge can implicate the people all the way at the top, quietly commit suicide in the middle of the night... 

 

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Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:07 | 5376304 Karaio
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Tyler: 

- Do not go near a nail gun. 

- Learn to swim. 

- Always have a parachute in a backpack. 

- Do not take pills. 

- Always Walk with a car from the 1970s with carburetor - I suggest the Charger R / T. 

- Never forget the bulletproof vest. 

hehe.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:01 | 5376109 williambanzai7
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"Who we will miss"

You can take that to the bunker...

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:02 | 5376110 Ginsengbull
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They must know that their system is unsustainable, so they take the "easy" way out.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:05 | 5376111 ekm1
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TOP SHARKS are in utter fear, in fear for their lives.

 

Well, gents, that is how humans function. They should read some world history.

 

Once you dive into the mud, it's impossible to come out untainted.

 

Human made systems always and at anytime eliminate the WEAKEST LINKS, either peacefully (Lehman, Bear Stearns, MF global) or forcefully (now)

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:27 | 5376168 ekm1
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This is not going to end anytime soon, until destruction of bank lobby.

They are clearly in utter fear.

 

When elite gets enraged and goes into civil war, just get out of the way and let them settle their own issues the way only they know how to, BLOOD

 

We the sheeple, have no other option but to wait and see until they eliminate each other and the survival of the fittest rule works itself into the system.

 

There's nothing else to do, just watch the show. It is a horror show, but that is how humans function.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:09 | 5376310 CrazyCooter
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Who would you characterize as fighting against each other? National level? Individual (or groups) of banks? Oligarchs?

I expected the real crash years ago. The fact it hasn't happened yet boggles my mind. I don't even wait for it anymore, I just adjusted my life ahead of time, as best I could, and plod along.

Knowing who is doing fighting would definately be useful in staying the hell out of the way...

Regards,

Cooter

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:15 | 5376322 ekm1
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There are X real assets world wide. I am talking REAL ASSETS, like oil fields, mines, refineries, factories, arable land, water supplies etc

 

There are Y oligarchs world wide.

 

How humans work:

John, Abdul, Boris, Lee etc etc etc war against each other to control the real stuff.

 

Right now?

Military complex vs Bank lobby

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:18 | 5376650 NoPension
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Eliminate MIC and the Banks, what would Murica be left with?

I mean seriously, what else is thriving in this ass backwards country anymore?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:53 | 5376739 ekm1
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MIC brings in energy and commodities

Big banks only plunder.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 19:52 | 5377484 calltoaccount
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Big banks finance and are largest shareholders in MIC.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 20:20 | 5377544 ekm1
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Big banks finance nothing.

Digits on computers called money is not financing.

Anybody can place few computers in building, type up digits and call it money

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:02 | 5376113 McCormick No. 9
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Douche Bank, Jew-Partner Morgan, Suck Everyone's(dick) Commission...

Sometimes, you just have to make the world a better place, even if only by subtraction..

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:02 | 5376114 Kina
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Murder by suicide.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:30 | 5376191 Freddie
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These big cities, especially London, have their orders that this was a suicide.  Nothing to see here.

As fake as the Sandy Hook coroner and Gene Rosen/Robbie Parker.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:03 | 5376117 falak pema
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Deutsche Bank, the new Banco Ambrosiano ?

Will we find the new P2 lodge president hanging from London Bridge next, as in 1982 ? 

Shades of Godfather III ! 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:43 | 5376228 Cacete de Ouro
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Deutsche Bank is still a member of the London Silver Market Fixing Limited, and has a new director named Eric Parker in the Company. The young Parker works in the commodities division of Deutsche's New York headquarters. Charlie Gambino was very well known to Parker.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:13 | 5376635 Arius
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a marked man?

parker sounds familiar for some reason ... peut etre i saw his name au demain journal ... peut etre

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:04 | 5376121 JonNadler
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Following a brief late summer spell in which there was little if any news of bankers taking their lives,

 

Even murderous pig bankers need a break in the Hamptons you know?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:06 | 5376126 Bluntly Put
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All the regulatory agencies have to do is determine the extent of leverage in gold and silver and then fine the banks based on the amount of naked short leverage. It could be a permanent tax on the banks, and the best part is that the actual value of the metal wouldn't go to the people but instead could be taxed by the government.

Brilliant! muahahahahaha

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:07 | 5376129 williambanzai7
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Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:13 | 5376143 Karaio
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:-)

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:31 | 5376197 Son of Captain Nemo
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Gives a whole new meaning to the "Samson Option"!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:27 | 5376673 NoPension
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Okay, this was new. WB7, I was looking at your pic, touched it and it went to your site. When I clicked back to Hedge, your pic was replaced with "sponsored financial content" at the right. I shit you not. I thought it was a post, mocking the banks. I clicked on it, and presto, your Duetse bank pic came back.
Ha!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 20:14 | 5377522 williambanzai7
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I have an ad blocker running on my desktop browser.

However, on my iPad all kinds of shit happens and I have basically stopped using it for ZH.

Am I annoyed by this?

I am a realist. The site has to cover its overhead.

You get what you pay for.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 23:55 | 5378255 WillyGroper
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there's an adblock for ipad.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 20:36 | 5377585 Ariadne
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The reflection is most impressive. You're getting good. Please add a man in a black suit plummeting to his death.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:09 | 5376135 The Magus
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Hung?

It's hanged!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:25 | 5376351 FeralSerf
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Not if he was dead already and then "hung" as in "out to dry".

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:11 | 5376138 Karaio
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Someone is doing a good service! 

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk! 

This is starting to look a Triller "many ways to die." 

Nail guns, hanging, car accident, drowning, "bird syndrome" pills. 

Banksters tend to lack creativity, saw no one so far that lambuzasse ateasse gasoline and fire, saw no one so far even to pull a pin and hold the grenade in the chest. 

hehe.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:18 | 5376154 Midas
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How about having a "drunk" Russian take out a small airplane with a snowplow?  That is at least novel.  It is clever because odds are the snowplow drivers in Russia are always drunk anyway.  That brings up a question though, is writing "drunk Russian" redundant? 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:15 | 5376317 Karaio
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Honestly, I prefer a drunk to a covert Russian bankster. 

A drunk Russian forest, speak the reason the reason why killed, does his thing openly. 

If you are still drunk, kill you too! Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk! 

'm Afraid it's the guys who kill and hide the reason. 

hehe.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:11 | 5376139 Reaper
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Cui bono? A corrupt lawyer could have always weaseled out of responsibility? A larger entity with 54 trillion in exposure?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:14 | 5376141 H. Perowne
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The pigmen are running out of imagination. Back to hanging? I thought the nail-gun "suicides" were much more creative.

Edit: Damn you Karaio, beat me to it. 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:12 | 5376142 NaiLib
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This might be why Merkel has changed her mind, after the trip to US/Obama and now fully support the US triggered EU sanctions of Russia. DB is too big to reveal.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:21 | 5376151 q99x2
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Oh happy day, let not this be the sole occurance of such blissful acts. It was upon the longest stretch, but with anticipation,  I placed my faith. My prayers went out for bankers everywhere. Alas, as you so, so shall you reap M'Fers.

YeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaa! M'Fers

Rollin rollin rollin Keep them banksters jumping.

Oops there goes another water bug.

What a great article to wake up to.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:22 | 5376163 MsCreant
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No baby. 

Either he was offed, in which case the evil fuckers win, or he offed himself over the guilt, when he could have, instead, ratted the other bastards out and helped take down the system.

No win here, sorry to bust your bubble.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:36 | 5376219 chunga
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My glee over a bank lawyer with a snapped neck is tempered by the possibility that he may have spilled the beans on the boss men.

HaHA! Yeah right! These fuckers get away with it all the time no matter what.

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:35 | 5376374 FeralSerf
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Offed himself over the guilt as in "found religion"? Not likely with these guys -- they have too much experience practicing the religion they believe in. Perhaps because the rest of his family were going to be murdered or something else that is even worse than being hanged.

The people that do these cullings for the money and risk that's involved are very good at what they do. They're professionals.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:01 | 5377193 aka_ces
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or, if he had family, he was told they might have some problems if he didn't do himself in.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:16 | 5376152 Bell's 2 hearted
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As a reminder, the other Deutsche Bank-er who was found dead earlier in the year, William Broeksmit, was involved in the bank's risk function and advised the firm's senior leadership; he was "anxious about various authorities investigating areas of the bank where he worked," 

 

i've always thought Deutsche Bank's balance sheet the most toxic on planet ... deadly apparently

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:07 | 5376305 Stumpy4516
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It may not be the bank or even the German govt who did this.  It may be the fed, the fed's owners and the CIA.  DB is a very useful blackmail tool and if someone like this man exposed the situation then the effectiveness of blackmail lessens.

The German govt wants the banks problems kept quiet, in part due to the turmoil it would cause in Germany.  The fed wants it kept quiet to avoid a whole can of worms and contaigian.  The CIA can use this situation to blackmail the German govt to do the bidding of the US, maybe even support war with Russia (or the little wars that cause an unavoidable confrontation with Russia).  If nothing else the US/UK can use the DB problems to guide Germany to take certain actions the result of which are damaging to the EU and to help weaken the EU and faith in the EU's currency.   But if the info is already exposed then Germany cannot be blackmailed.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 23:10 | 5378111 nuke ISIS now
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Where was Greenspan when Gambino got "suicided"?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:17 | 5376153 venturen
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Amazing what Guilt does....if only it worked faster and on people with no souls!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:38 | 5376858 css1971
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Psychopaths and sociopaths don't experience guilt and don't really understand what it is.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:18 | 5376156 MsCreant
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If he was going to kill himself anyway, take out some bankers with you, or go to Liberia and treat some Ebola patients. Be a useful suicide. 

Then again, maybe it was a "useful" suicide?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:19 | 5376159 dizzyfingers
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Dead pool bets?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:20 | 5376160 thepigman
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Any possibility DB has managed to get itself trillions in the hole without anyone on the outside finding out?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:30 | 5376193 Bell's 2 hearted
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not trillions ... but enough to sink their Battleship .... that i have no doubt

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:21 | 5377248 IndyPat
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Optimist.

There's more than enough exposure to sink every battleship on the game board. It's all there in pretty charts and graphs.

Sun, 10/26/2014 - 17:05 | 5380018 Tall Tom
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It is all interconnected like a House of cards or a Jenga Stack.

 

Remove the wrong piece and then...Well it is much more catastrophic than a child's game, perhaps? The stakes are much more in magnitude and are incomprehensible to most.

 

Ronald Reagan once wanted to have someone understand the magnitude of a Trillion...

 

So one of his advisors suggested that if One TRillion One Dollar Bills were stacked Flat it woud reach a Quarter of the way to the Moon.

 

Well as for the size of a Quadrillion? That same stack would go to the Moon 250 times as One Quadrillion is just One Thousand Trilion.

 

(BTW...For clarity's sake I am using the American Number System...not the British Number System which considers One Thousand Billion as equal to One Milliard.)

 

Well here is another way...

 

Six Trillion Miles is One Light Year.

 

One quadrillion miles is equal to 173 Light Years.

 

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 3.2 Light Years distant.

 

At a cost of a Dollar per mile we could go to Proxima Centauri and back roughly 25 times.

 

These are truly Astronomical figures.

 

Writing about the scope and size of the Derivatives Market is just as fantastic as writing about object that are out of this World.

 

And people...well they just continue to suspend their disbelief...

 

And they are in for one hell of a Rude Awakening.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:22 | 5376164 i_call_you_my_base
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I don't see why anyone under threat of financial scrutiny would commit suicide. It's not like anyone goes to jail and they all likely have enough money and can find other work. Although, if one had some compromising pictures...

Sun, 10/26/2014 - 17:16 | 5380060 Tall Tom
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Then, perhaps, you can see the possibility that maybe they have not committed suicide and that these murders are staged to look as suicides?

 

In order to keep a Ponzi Sceme, a Pyramid scheme, alive is that confidence must be maintained.

 

Once confidence is shattered then the Pyramid collapses.

 

It was not accomplished because their owners are fearful of being prosecuted. They want to keep the Ponzi Scheme afloat for as long as it is possible.

 

Really they think that they will get away with it.

 

Most criminals believe that they will get away with their crimes. Nobody does it with an intentional plan to get caught.

 

Thank the Lord that most are stupid and their plans are flawed. But if you ever bothered to ask them they would tell you that they had planned the Perfect Crime...and then they were caught by something that they had not planned for.

 

It is just like today's banksters. The Black Swan always gets the criminal in the end.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:26 | 5376178 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Chuckles 'the Assclown' Gambino thought he was an untouchable wise guy.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:35 | 5376180 Son of Captain Nemo
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Wonder if they had anything in their contract(s) that informed them they "may be subject to early termination through both necessary and unnecessary measures at the discretion of the employer should they violate the terms and conditions of said contract?...  Just how many times can you repeat "beyond surreal"?!

Wouldn't it be just our luck if Stan Fischer, Janet Yellen, Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein were the only ones left standing???!!!!

Think it would be safe to say the usury space ship will be moving from Mach 3 to light speed here very shortly! 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:26 | 5376182 NYPoke
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Charlie...Gambino...Suicide.  If you say so.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:32 | 5376199 whoopsing
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Safer to stick with the family buisness

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:32 | 5376202 joego1
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Everyday a new hazard, Ebola, financial colapse and now it's raining bankers.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:34 | 5376203 yogibear
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When loses end up being billions a lot of people end up dead. Being paid a visit by a professional that make it look like a suicide. 

Surprised that Jon Corzine wasn't whacked.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:42 | 5376235 Freddie
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LOL!  Reminds me of Casino when Joe Pesci does a voice over about all the old top Mafia guys from Kansas City and back east tying up loose ends during their trial.   The old guy in the meeting room at the back of the courthouse Remo says "why take a chance?" 

Joe Pesci "...always better with no witnesses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhUZaAYsaGU

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:36 | 5376851 css1971
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Losses more than a few hundred k cause deaths. Billions causes war.

"Surprised that Jon Corzine wasn't whacked."

All depends on whos money you lose.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:33 | 5376204 SmittyinLA
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Deutsche Bank, they were the biggest sub-prime bailout beneficiary, that guy's resume looks a whole lot like Neel Kashkaris resume'

 

BTW why isn't the $700 B man a witness in the AIG Starr treasury trial?

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:34 | 5376210 Freddie
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the banker suicides returned with a bang when none other than the hedge fund partner of infamous former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli entrepreneur, was found dead after jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv.

This one was interesting as well.  When will Strauss-Khan meet up with a nail gun?    23 stories?  They wanted to make sure he was dead. 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:34 | 5376213 TabakLover
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You'd think a guy that smart would figure out away to disappear....... or set up a blackmail upon death doomsday arrangement.    Surely money was no object.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:40 | 5376230 THE DORK OF CORK
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Investment in Ireland looks a bit.....................

http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/saveselections.asp

 

Just to add this "investment" extracts from the average person as it merely increases the numbers of cars driving around in circles.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:45 | 5376244 MollyHacker
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One can only wonder the ramifications of a mass repatriation of US Bonds exchange on the bases of gold convertibility. At some point, many nations faced with a 'balancing of deficient spending' and having a 'fiscal sulvent budget' will either refuse to purchase US Bonds or demand that the purchased bonds be honored with something more than words of full faith & credit.

Major bank derivatives resulting from extended long exposure to rehyprothicated bullion bank allocations will be extremely shortened towards defaults caused by failure to deliver when those particular instruments of collateral are demanded. A repatriation of treasuries, referendums (Swiss) will only hasten the defaults.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:45 | 5376245 armageddon addahere
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If there are a lot of banker suicides now when things are going good wait till the Ponzi falls apart.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:47 | 5376250 I Write Code
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Deutsche Bank didn't get any respect at Rick's in Casablanca, either.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:51 | 5376257 Stumpy4516
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What disturbs me is the reaction by the local authorities which I believe show how deep it goes.

The suicides in LA (to cover up covert operations) are one thing, I can see such a large law enforcement org. has hidden lines of control from CIA/NSA.  But the nail gun guy was murdered in a rather small community and the local LE was quick to declare suicide.  This takes me back to the Clinton days when people who could hold info were killed and the local LE would declare it was a botched robbery or suicide.

Now, if you were one of these banker guys and you were upset about what might be uncovered in some investigation (never mind that these investigations of TPTB always seem to find only minor issues) and the impact it might have to yourself and your health - would you not gather all the info and go to the authorities and offer to make a deal for your testimony?  If the investigators turned down the deal you could then go public to put the spot light on the org. and not yourself.  And, as a LAST resort, if prison time was to occur, then at that time you could hang yourself.   These are smart people, they would not hang themselves just to avoid public shame and they sure are not going to kill themselves because they are worried (and yes, they may actually be worried) of legal difficulties.

It would be different if they lived in their cars or on the street with no hope.  These people have comfortable homes, good food, money for entertainment of all sorts and the resources to take nice vacations.

Will even one of them be bold enough to not act as most humans do, trying to hid in the corner while hoping or fooling themselves that they are not going to be visited in the night.  Or maybe these bankers were stupid enough to threaten to talk if not left alone or to make plans over the internet and with on phones that are being monitored.  Just quietly put it all together, make multiple copies and give sets of the info to mutiple people/outlets and then go public with a sudden bang while making it clear you are motivated for the better good and will fight this battle but are worried about being murdered (included a staged suicied).

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:02 | 5376294 Moe Howard
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Let me sum it it up - they are a risk to the biggest gangsters on Earth, have no reason to suicide, and are found dead of an "apparent" suicide. Pretty obvious they were murdered.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:31 | 5376364 Karaio
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@ Moe Howard: 

Said everything, that's it! 

:-)

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:08 | 5377208 aka_ces
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scratch.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:52 | 5376259 SidKhadak
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EBOLA – CIA Project Codename MKNAOMI & Hi-Tech Assassinations

 

In 1948, Henry Kissinger, a 23-year-old American intelligence officer, recruited Nazi expatriates to serve in top positions in American military, aerospace, and biological science and medicine. Twenty years later, he left Harvard’s esteemed faculty and resigned a lucrative position as Nelson Rockefeller’s foreign policy attache’ to become President Nixon’s closest advisor and director of the National Security Council. Seeking alternatives to tactical nuclear weapons to bolster America’s “diplomacy” abroad, the paranoid and egomaniacal Kissinger quickly ordered the Army’s Chief of Staff to requisition $10 million from Congress for the development and testing of EBOLA & AIDS-like viruses. Within ten years, the AIDS and Ebola epidemics erupted coincidentally in the regions of Africa ravaged by CIA military covert operations also ordered by Kissinger.

 

In 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, claimed credit for discovering the AIDS virus. He announced it most likely originated from a monkey virus which spontaneously mutated and naturally jumped species. Dr. Gallo was a biological weapons contractor for the CIA’s top secret “Project: MKNAOMI,” and was paid to produce and test EBOLA, AIDS-like viruses as early as 1970.

 

EBOLA – CIA Project Codename MKNAOMI & Hi-Tech Assassinations
Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:03 | 5376298 Moe Howard
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I understood he was not an "Officer" but a Sergeant in the Army.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:58 | 5376597 WillyGroper
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HK recently fell & conked his noggin.

Just not hard enuf.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:54 | 5376261 tony wilson
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i called tony  s

i said tony you herd der news about gambino

he said forget about it.

 

tony donte go calling me outta my slumbers and making me an excessorie after der facts.

he said listen tone get sum zzzs dis is not a family a sicilian or itailian problem.

 

dis is just the rabbi's taken out the garbage.

 

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:03 | 5376607 WillyGroper
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I dunno Tony...

da way the ole fish head is squawkin bout money changers it could be dat black pope. 

you no...

look over there...blackfriars bridge

squirrel.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:44 | 5376713 tony wilson
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willy for tony

the pope is a rabbi no diss respect if you are catholicals un all.

talmudickulls

rabbinicalls

catholicoals

masonicals

one big satan luvin firm

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:32 | 5377269 IndyPat
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Thus Spake Mr Manchester

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:55 | 5376271 Fix It Again Timmy
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That these banker types willingly commit suicide, perhaps over a guilty conscience, is simply ludicrous; these people are totally insulated from the other 99% and take pride and pleasure in graft, theft and corruption.  Expertise in these nefarious qualities is a badge of honor and competence...

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 11:55 | 5376272 FeralSerf
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They lie, they cheat, they steal, they KILL.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:02 | 5376288 franciscopendergrass
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See what happens when you bang guns, people resort to hanging themselves and jumping out of buildings!

That's a fate worse than death!

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:02 | 5376292 NoWayJose
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Now we know why one of the guys that does know what happens to these suicide bankers - Snowden - made sure he went into hiding!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:06 | 5376303 Moe Howard
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Banksters are limiting their risk all over the place. Think, if the Costra Nostra sing like canaries when facing time, wouldn't a bank serf do the same? Dead men tell no tales.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:16 | 5376323 whoopsing
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Gives a whole new meaning to risk management

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:19 | 5376329 Vuke
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Anything we can do to encourage more of this activity????

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:25 | 5376348 Goldennutz
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Maybe some mentions in Wall Street on Parade will do the trick?

 

 

 

"A thread connecting Broeksmit to wrongdoing, however, was uncovered earlier this summer when Wall Street on Parade referenced his name..."

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:27 | 5376675 WillyGroper
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Yup,

Buy PM's.

Pressure, pressure, pressure.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:29 | 5376838 css1971
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Physical.

Paper is no use.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:21 | 5376334 Karaio
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If you were to choose the type of death, I have two options: 

Die sleeping, heart attack, this is what I pray to God. 

The second is the gallows. 

At least I'll die a boner. 

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:57 | 5376592 ebear
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I'd prefer you were eaten by piranhas.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:38 | 5376343 Eyeroller
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<--- They committed suicide because they know a crash is coming.

<--- They committed suicide because their illegal activities were going to be revealed.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:59 | 5376599 ebear
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they committed suicide because their family was threatened.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:25 | 5376352 smacker
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"Juno Reactor - Pistolero (Fluke ''Hang'em High'' Remix)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vEFU0obhM

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:34 | 5376367 Karaio
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Let the next clash a post above. 

:-)

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:34 | 5376369 homiegot
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Being a banker isn't all it's cracked up to be, I see.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:42 | 5376386 theprofromdover
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Didn't all these banks have life insurance policies on their staff (with the company as beneficiary)?

Wouldn't that alone make it worth investigating properly?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:45 | 5376394 Panic Mode
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Holy Scheiße !!!!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:47 | 5376397 TomGa
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Further proves the ancient adage, "Dead men tell no tales."

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:49 | 5376399 Ironmaan
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Dun....Dun....Dun....Another one bites the dust!

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:56 | 5376419 SocialismIsCancer
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Lots of bankers dieing from  "suicide".

IDEA - we should elect the obamanation into President of the Parasites & Thieves Bank !

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 12:59 | 5376427 Panic Mode
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What do you call a banker in their 20s?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:02 | 5376433 cwwang
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Were the european banking stress test too stressful?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:03 | 5376434 Yellowhoard
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Would be interesting to see a social diagram of all of these suicided people and the people that they associate with to see if any names pop up frequently.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:02 | 5376435 Conax
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He's gone and there isn't nothing we could do about it.

Gone? Whattaya mean, gone?

He's gone, there's nothing we could do about it, that's it.

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:11 | 5376459 marcusfenix
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I think they must have lost some of kaiser soza's money along the way...

I do think these guys are being murdered for one reason or another but by who, and why, that woiuld be extremly interesting to find out.

after all you don't have to commit the perfect crime to get away with it, you just need to be able to minipulate and influence the investigation after. just look at 9/11 whatever elements were behind it killed thousands and got away clean largely because the investgation that followed was a sham meant for no other purpose than to arrive at a pre determined conclusion.

I don't buy the bansters offing themselves because they know what's coming bit, if that were the case I think you would see many more taking high dives off of roof tops or sucking exaust on thier way to the great beyond, I just think you would see larger clusters of susicides if that were the case. these deaths just feel like they are very much being carried out with a point and purpose.

besides who the hell would kill themselves with a nail gun?

perhaps a bit of MK ULTRA for a new generation going on here?  

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:11 | 5376460 pashley1411
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Slightly more integrity than deleting the e-mail accounts and going before Congress to tell them to kiss your lilly-white ass.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:15 | 5376461 pashley1411
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dup

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:21 | 5376490 orangegeek
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Someone found the photos of Charlie and the sheep, but without rubber boots. How embarrassing.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:30 | 5376509 Fuku Ben
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"having also hung himself by the neck from a stairway banister, which according to the New York Police Department was the cause of death"

Okay then case closed. On to the next fake Ebola or ISIS axe-man attack crime scene. Isn't this the same NYPD that was disposing of bio-hazardous material in a public trash bin just a day or so ago

When they volunteer information and publicize it quickly they're doing one, some or all of the following: lying, covering up, acknowledging a hit they were paid to do or trying to make themselves look competent

Ferguson FOIA requests still unfulfilled months later

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140930/07273628676/fergusons-strateg...

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:57 | 5376594 kchrisc
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"When they volunteer information and publicize it quickly they're doing one, some or all of the following: lying, covering up, acknowledging a hit they were paid to do or trying to make themselves look competent"

So true. They lie even when they are telling the truth--there is ALWAYS an agenda of money and power.

An American, not US subject.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:43 | 5376539 bardot63
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Bankers have finally found a way to assure worldwide respect and admiration for themselves in perpetuity.   When you think about how many lives these m....f...ing elitists have ruined, there must be a special place in Hell for these scumsuckers.  I applaud every banker who takes the coward's way out, since that's easier for the rest of us than firing up the wood chipper or dusting off the guillotine.   Let's hope Yellen and LeGarde read ZH daily.  They are on a list somewhere.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:22 | 5376819 css1971
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I'm just wondering if they're over thinking this. You see, I very much doubt if when TSHTF courts will be any more than "Profession? Banker" "Guilty". Sentence to be hung by the neck until dead, then served to the homeless at a food bank.

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:46 | 5376554 gwar5
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Not that I don't get a liittle tickle over Armani pancakes on the sidewalks, but the take on these guys getting offed is that they had the goods on the big boys and are getting suicided to silence witnesses so there won't be any banker Nuremberg trials.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:49 | 5376555 Spungo
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Such an exciting year. We had banker suicide, Ukraine, Islamic State, and now banker suicides AGAIN.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:50 | 5376563 kchrisc
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My guillotine is weeping this morning.

An American, not US subject.

 

"Only the fortunate banksters get to kill themselves."

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:51 | 5376570 q99x2
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Q99x2 is not schizophrenic. He suffers from complications of the undefined point which lies at the base of the monetary system and is a primal reason for why bankers jump. The complications that arise from perception and the perception that arises from complications and so on and so forth. Anyhow more specifics to follow after the analysis and discussions of the Merchant of Venice this upcoming week in college.

Q99x2 loves Alex Jones.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 13:55 | 5376584 JamesH
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No surprise that the Fed's Plunge Protection Team isn't working out too well.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:02 | 5376604 pparalegal
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Sounds about right. If classified as homicide it would be investigated, causing other "potentials" to run for the witness protection programs. But suicide? Can't run and hide from those once in a lifetime events.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:05 | 5376616 Bunga Bunga
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Stress test results, what did he know?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:53 | 5376745 Dre4dwolf
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Even if all the banks failed the stress test miserably, nothing would change, its just business as usual.

The entire point of the "stress tests" is so that politicians and enforcement agencies can cover their ass from public / political backlash when the 2nd crash happens.... so they can say "buu buu bu but we did stress tests"...

Nothing more nothing less.

Stress test = Political Shield from backlash post crash 2.0.

 

If anything they WANT these banks to all fail the stress tests so they can come back later with an "I told you so!!!".

 

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:08 | 5376626 are we there yet
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Suicide by 'hanging' in a building starewell? Footprints and other forensics is useless, if the banker had 'helpers'. Lots of enter and exit points without cameras, if the banker had assassins. Suspicious and improbable, like other banker suicides.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:15 | 5376642 Infinite QE
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You know, with all the NSA data collection going on, nothing should be a mystery now, right?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 21:57 | 5377831 kowalli
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mb someone got that nsa data and find their money route.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:18 | 5376651 Atomizer
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Just more (Enron Style) Clifford Baxter sudden death suicide mysterious. LOL

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25CND-HOUSTON.html

Authorities will never release this Enron government security Worlds trade building 7 holding for court purposes, nor Baxter. They'll burn down or explode his facilities.  

911 building 7 wiped out all Enron evidence once Silvertein called, Pull it.

 

The ledger to exposed political greasing is needed 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:26 | 5376667 Who was that ma...
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Bankers are dropping like flies.  Oh wait, bankers ARE flies.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:34 | 5376688 pupdog1
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Two for the price of one.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:44 | 5376712 Raging Debate
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Has NoDebt and his nailgun icon showed up yet? Havent read all the commentaries but wager he'll show...

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:01 | 5377197 MsCreant
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Way up thread.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:56 | 5376751 Buster Cherry
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And how much life insurance did the company have on these fellas?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:55 | 5377313 Ban KKiller
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Ahh...not even cold and someone is following the money...

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 14:58 | 5376757 Joenobody12
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Dead men dont talk.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:16 | 5376803 Atomizer
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Banker fly strips can make a great novelty item

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:17 | 5376804 Joe Tierney
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Yep, they got to 'suicide' these banksters, making a public spectacle of them, so that any other banksters that might be thinking about squealing will take note and keep their mouths shut.

 

Nice thing about it is that their life insurance won't pay off - it's a 'suicide'. So their families get the shaft too - nice message delivered for bankster consumption - keep your damn mouths shut or else.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 16:56 | 5377040 massbytes
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Usually ther is only a period of time, one or two years, where a suicide invalidates the payout.   A close family member committed suicide years after the policies were taken out and they both paid off.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:24 | 5376827 Lmo Mutton
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Where is the $54.7 Trillion (Euro) column of life insurance policies on bankster executives?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:38 | 5376864 gcjohns1971
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Gambino?

Did the Mafia run afoul of the European royals?

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:41 | 5376871 FreudianSlip
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Gang warfare of the elite, done by the best professionals.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:55 | 5377316 ShakaZulu
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Precisely, Watson.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:51 | 5376903 Salzburg1756
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I love the smell of bankster blood in the morning....Smells like...victory.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:56 | 5376916 grunk
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Sleeping with the fishes.

Or the squids.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 15:58 | 5376927 oskar20051
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Before writing text like this you should first read a novel by Stanislaw Lem "The investigation" (1959)

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 16:06 | 5376941 Salzburg1756
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I love the smell of bankster blood in the morning....Smells like...victory.

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 18:52 | 5377306 Ban KKiller
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Where are the ups? ! @ #

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 16:05 | 5376942 rawsienna
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Somebody at Db wants some peoe dead. Too many suicides. Most people in the biz know Db been cooking the books for years to pay senior people on the investment banking side.

Mon, 10/27/2014 - 01:15 | 5381176 hedgiex
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Paying Seniors on all sides. Taxpayers have provided the safety net for the game to go on. DB book of derivatives makes it TBTF. The small investors surely cannot be the priority in any bail-ins or bail-outs.

Game includes the ongoing foisting of snake oils to Muppets.

 

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 16:12 | 5376952 Lumberjack
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I see he worked for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom during the Enron mess.

 

 

General Counsel look to New York and D.C. lawyers for help

 

http://www.wiggin.com/5336

 

When prosecutors went after the corporate executives at places like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, a number of those under fire hired Reid Weingarten, a former federal prosecutor and Irangate veteran.

Enron turned to New York’s Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to handle the government-investigations angle of its legal mess, and the firm also defended the brokerage house Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., a unit of Merrill Lynch & Co., where New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer took aim at the company’s research practices last spring.


Sat, 10/25/2014 - 16:27 | 5376977 Jack Sheet
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Pity it wasn't "Fuc to Market"

Sat, 10/25/2014 - 17:58 | 5377191 ramacers
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 no matter if you're born to play the king or pawn, the line is thinly drawn 'tween joy and sorrow.

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