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Missouri Auditor, Governor Hopeful, Dies Of Apparent "Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound"
Over the past year, there had been a perplexing spike in suicide events involving bankers, especially those of Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan. Overnight, the first prominent public sector suicide shook the state of Missouri when its state auditor Tom Schweich died in St. Louis in what is said to be an apparent suicide, at the age of 54, around 9:48 am on Thursday, when Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy said paramedics responded to an emergency call from his home. Schweich was then taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead from a single gunshot wound.
The Police chief was quoted by Kansascity.com, who said that “What we know at this point suggests an apparent suicide.”
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich announced his candidacy for governor in January in St. Louis
As reported by the local newspaper, Murphy declined to say if authorities found a note or any communication from Schweich. He said family members are cooperating with the investigation. He would not disclose specifics about the weapon involved in the shooting or where Schweich was wounded. At least one family member — believed to be Schweich’s wife — was at home at the time of the incident.
On the surface nothing strange, yet what is peculiar about the suicide theory is that as further reported, "Schweich began the day by calling The Associated Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch to invite reporters to his home in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton for a 2:30 p.m. interview. He apparently called both news organizations minutes before the 911 call was placed from his home."
Needless to say, a strange sequence of events for a person who was just preparing to take his life just minutes later.
The topic of that interview, according to the editors of the Post-Dispatch, was to be Schweich’s belief that John Hancock, the recently elected chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, had spread rumors about him.
Schweich’s office in Jefferson City released a routine audit of the Department of Corrections at 10 a.m. Then at 11:18 a.m., the auditor’s office said in a statement that Schweich had been taken to a hospital for “a medical situation.”
Gov. Jay Nixon, well-known across the country after the St. Louis riots from last summer, canceled a St. Louis appearance following that announcement as concern for Schweich’s condition spread quickly across Missouri.
Schweich’s office confirmed his death at 1:30 p.m. “It is with great sadness that I confirm the passing of Missouri state Auditor Tom Schweich today,” spokesman Spence Jackson said in an email. “Please keep in mind his wife Kathy and two children.”
Nixon ordered state flags to fly at half-staff, calling Schweich “a brilliant, devoted and accomplished public servant who dedicated his career to making Missouri and the world a better place.”
What adds to the mystery is that Schweich, who was elected as state auditor in 2010 and was re-elected without Democratic opposition last November, had a bright future to look forward to: Last month he announced his candidacy for governor in 2016.
"In recent weeks, however, the race for governor had turned increasingly rough. Schweich framed his campaign around the idea that corruption was rampant in Jefferson City — and he pointed to his rival for the GOP nomination as the prime example. He accused Hanaway of being bought and paid for by conservative megadonor Rex Sinquefield, who has given roughly $1 million to her campaign.
Last weekend, as Republicans gathered in Kansas City for the Republican Party’s annual conference, a radio ad hit the airwaves attacking Schweich as a weak candidate who could be “easily confused for the deputy sheriff of Mayberry.” The ad was paid for by a political action committee called Citizens for Fairness in Missouri. Schweich’s spokesman said the ad had upset the auditor.
The ad was paid for by a political action committee called Citizens for Fairness in Missouri. Schweich’s spokesman said the ad had upset the auditor.
Then things get downright bizarre:
This week, rumors swirled around the Missouri Capitol that Schweich planned to call a press conference to accuse Hancock, the newly elected chairman of the Missouri GOP, of making anti-Semitic remarks and spreading rumors that Schweich is Jewish.
Schweich told a Post-Dispatch editor that he was Episcopalian with a Jewish grandfather and suspected references were made to his Jewish heritage to damage his standing with Republicans in the primary for governor. Schweich had made similar complaints to the AP.
Whether it was the topic of Schweich's heritage that disturbed the auditor so much, or something else - perhaps something related to his job as auditor of a state - that was the reason for his premature death we will never know. Just as well will surely never know if, following the autopsy, foul play is discovered.
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Ho Lee Fuk
Wow, this dude looks almost as crazy as that crazy fuck from NY - Cuomo.
Auditor, as in knew some shit
don't forget to take your SSRI's honey
I found this article to be informative, as it details his last few minutes.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-fr...
They found out he was Jewish? Oh noes.
The Jew is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”
Hand guns (and others) should be banned.
Nail guns too.
Sad. Wanted to be Gubner. Careful what you wish for.
must have been auditing Cristina De Kirchner
I'd have pegged him as a DeMOEcrat from the looks of him....needless to say he had a mental disorder or three.
Another example of Fascism as instituted in the US.
This is what the kill clause in the NDAA was about.
the argentine are struggling with the rabbi lies
moshe
mossad false flags
remember that you
twatter
and never forget the uss liberty
have you got it kleinfelt
emoclew kcab ;)
As a staunch liberal, I smell North Korea ALL OVER this.
We suicided some folks
What about shitgums? They are dangerous too.
Bluegums has shitgums when Reggie or Ben Finkenbinder visit...
Looks like he filed for an early retirement.
http://s11.postimg.org/evyi7x8n7/nailgun.jpg
Being that government is nothing but force, forgive me if I don't cry because someone who wanted to control that blew his brains out.
pods
Was he or wasn't he going to attend Bibi Netanyahooo's after party in CONgressional address,though?
The story misquoted him.
He wasn't upset that people called him Jewish, he was upset that people called him a Jew because after every fancy restaurant meal when the check came he would sneak off to the bathroom.
Ba dump *rimshot*
pods
@NotApplicable - thanks for taking the time to post it, but I didn't read anything useful in that article at all. (Not that it's your fault.) It was extremely weak and filled with speculation. It was all over the map. The person thought bigots would go after him for having a Jewish grandfather ? Lightweight psycho analysis ? - a politician wanted a reporter to think favorably about him? How unique and 'profound' a statement!
IMO it read more like a " I knew this guy, kinda, who is alleged to have killed himself and now I'm going to get an article out of it. How many words can I fill it with."
I'd have to take a close look but either STL-Today or the St. Louis News Democrat ran an article about the suicide mere minutes after it occured I believe.
Something got to him... either indirectly and he took his own life or directly and someone took it for him.
I doubt you set up an interview to talk about an anti-semetic comment and then a few minutes later off yourself. Sum-ting doesn add up here.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-Satellite-Terrorism/dp/1606939440/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425071988&sr=1-3&keywords=john+hall
can you say DC shipyard shooter?
7 minutes:
A 911 call was made from Schweich’s home at 9:48 a.m., seven minutes after Schweich had left a voicemail requesting an interview with a Post-Dispatch reporter.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/auditor-schweich-had...
He had already shot himself and his wife? had already called 911 within 7 minutes of requesting that interview?
Weird. Strange.
Not weird. Not strange. Bullshit.
Did he leave a suicide note?
The police were asked that question at the press conference yesterday, but they declined to answer.
Hey, isn't being Jewish a plus in USA politics?
or NSA knew something about him, but probably correct that he knew too much.
Possibly I've seen too much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ECJWbHjoQ
Quoting lyrics from Megadeth, you are now prompted to domestic extremist, please report to your nearest re-eduction centre.
Megadeth was well schooled in how government works:
D. Mustaine
Anybody know where Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was at the time?...
Same occupation, different location.
I'd like to see decent analysis of suicide rates of bankers versus other high-end, high-stress jobs.
My understanding is dentists and shrinks have the highest rates of suicide.
Now why would you go around and make disparaging remarks about King Andrew? He's quite the hansome "Devil"........
got the devil part right
C'mon... Is the Winter weather THAT bad?
Well, the audior did get cold.
Actually looks a lot like that neo-con clown Chertof, who ran the Dept of Homeland Security, then went on to make megabucks selling us those airport body scanners.
He had an interesting career after his Yale/Harvard indoctrination
In 2005, Schweich became the second-highest ranking and then highest-ranking international law enforcement official in the U.S. State Department as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.[4] He directed four thousand people located in dozens of countries with a budget of more than 2.5 billion dollars.[1] He was subsequently appointed Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan and was accorded the rank of Ambassador by President George W. Bush.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Schweich
He was C. o. S. for Danforth's investigation into The Waco siege, but found nothing substantial.
(all the evidence was destroyed in the fire)
Good info. Obviously he moved to MO to start a big Political Career.
So we can conclude he was going to play hard ball to get to be Governor. Smart as a whip, Auditor, why move to MO if not for a Political Career.
Looks like he found out what Hard Ball is.
I'm finding it very hard to feel sorry for someone who was either a full-blown fascist pig or a yes-man for the State.
Cause of death: knew too much
Or tried to enforce the law:
"He has busted at least 30 state officials for embezzlement."
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/oh-no-mo-gop-gubernatorial-candi...
We seem to be having a geometric progression of suicidings.
They all got away too.
Life in the ZWO occupied USSA.
bullish for stawks!
Yea, sure he did, just like Hillary is one of us, one of the common people.
Hillary Clinton is the worlds premier bull dyke.
Missouri is pretty close to Arkansas.
Wonder what he knew
Someone probably emailed him pics of when he was diddling little boys.
pods
The NSA. Surely God's greatest gift to blackmailers in positions of power.
...and spreading rumors that Schweich is Jewish.
I'd be pissed off if someone did that to me.
Same here buzz. You can call me ugly and stupid...but never, ever call me a Jew.
Maybe he got taken out for not bowing down to the chosen race...but I can tell that the wrong Jews are being taken out to the woodshed.
I don't care if you have a Jewish father. I don't care if you have a Jewish mother. I don't care what your familial history is. But you'd better be damn sure I'll hold on tightly to my wallet if you voluntarily identify as a Jew.
How many more incidents must happen until we finally recognize the true extent of threat from anti-semitic conspiracies running rampant within American political circles? /s
Strange Indeed! He looks more like an asphyxophiliac than a trigger puller...sure there was no belt nearby?
I guess agents can buy guns in your name with manufactured ID Cards.
The new normal in the GOP party.
Those guys from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations got off a lot easier for molesting kids.
Strange things going on in the Midwest.
There used to be more links on Wikipedia. Obviously it has been cleaned up by political pressure.
I seem to remember a picture of Lawrence E. King who was a big Fund Raiser for the Republicans if I remember properly. This is a huge story and now there isn't even a link for Lawrence E. King.
I think King worked in a Bank matter of fact.
" Later, a federal grand jury concluded that the abuse allegations were unfounded and indicted 21-year-old Alisha Owen, an alleged victim, on eight counts of perjury. The same grand jury also indicted multiple officers of the credit union, including King, for crimes related to the embezzlement of funds from the credit union.[4][5] Alisha Owen served 4-1/2 years in prison.[6]"
Yep, as late as 2014, that article used to be fairly long.
Not much of a story here.
Author should have interviewed the family.
Pathetic investigative journalism.
Maybe Im younger and don't understand but...
What the Fuck is Investigative Journalism?
You actually go to the source and ask questions instead of relying on hearsay from a supposed respected source.
It's expensive and more difficult, and probably not in ZH's budget.
What the fuck is a respected source?
I've never heard of or read about these things you speak of.
Are all the articles on ZC sarcasm?
What the fuck is sarcasm?
You're the future?
LOLOLOL.........
Nobody got time fo' dat!
To the back of the head. He must have been asking for someone to show him something. That's what you get for asking questions.
I'm sure there is a law firm in MO that knows everything.
Being in Missouri He said, "This is the Show Me State, so when you threaten me you have to show me".
Or yeah, one guys was showing him something on the desk while the other guy put the gun to his head.
Did that Argentinian broad visit Missouri? All the signs are there that she did ... at least she is smart enough not to use a nail gun.
We don't have psychiatrists on Q99X2 (sent them all to the pyramids a long time ago) but if we did I'd say he looks like the kind of human that might decide to do the universe a favor.
The New Normal hanging Chad
The new new normal, pregnant chad.
In our faux economy, numbers and guns don't mix.
Sorry, this one was just a suicide. They aren't all "nailgun" deaths. It rarely is obvious ahead of time that someone will take his/her life. "Oh, I never thought he could do that, he seemed so happy". Hell, maybe he was taking some big pharma happy pills (anti-depressants)
Kinda makes you wonder how he'd have handled being Guvna if petty stuff like this would cause one to go all suicidal.
If he is part Jewish, why not just get out ahead of the rumor mongers and explain that your grandpa was Jewish, you're not ashamed of it, blah, blah, blah instead of taking it so personally.
"Sorry, this one was just a suicide."
How do you know that?
wej deredruM
Hope they investigate the shit out of those scumbags. But the investigator is probably a repugnantcan.
"Gov. Jay Nixon, well-known across the country after the St. Louis riots from last summer,.."
Jay Nixon seems like hard character.
This auditor might have cost him too much politically by ripping the crap out his administration.
I say it might be Nixon in the Library with the Revolver.
It might have been an exercise machine accident.
Any bets on how long exercise machine bruses last? Going on 3 month's with little noticable improvement.
That's what happens when you have an exercise machine named Sal.
forgot the u
Hmm, I didn't realize that holding a prominent bank or public sector position could be such a depressing job today.
Could be his wife was secretly swinging.
He could have been Cuckolded, caught his wife with a big black guy.
His wife killed him. No other way given circumstances.
Press interviews from the grave. Interesting.
The guy was a white hat auditor, Z/H.
RIP Tom Schweich.
Next up:
EMS neglected to bag the decedent's hands. Lack of gunpowder evidence, therefore, proves nothing (vs proving someone else pulled the trigger).
Hey that's still Frank Morgan country back there.
And they never found Meyer Lanksy's money ...
Barney used his one bullet.
He was kinda creepy looking. He reminds me of the preacher from Poletergeist.
Ain't nobody running for office gonna off himself over 'anti-semitism'. If anything, he'd come out swinging. Somebody above suggested his profession as 'auditor'... Gee, do we really need to contemplate our navels over this...?
By the punctuation in the post's title, I tought his name was Mr. Hopeful. That would have been irony.
For Missourian's here's the distraction story. Quanity not quality.
8 dead in door-to-door shootings in rural Missourihttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/27/tyrone-missouri-9-d...
I have been wondering if there is a connection?
Unrelated, but WTF. Snow in Missouri ? Is that usual ?
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Missouri/annual-snowfall.php
9 shot dead MO.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/9-dead-multiple-missouri-crime-sce...
In Amerika the Free Press don't ask Questions without a script...
At first I thought this was an article about another Venezuelan whistleblower.
"...a perplexing spike in suicide events involving bankers..."
We don't actually know if it is a spike, average, or even a downturn in the rate of banker suicide until we know how common it was in the past.
Suicide can be an honorable thing.
More cops, federal thugs, and false conservatives should try it!
Auditor kills himself. Tells you all you need to know.
He looks like an auditor of Don Corleone.
Perfectly normal, if I can't be governor I will kill myself.
Must have wanted to pass out those paddle ball toys really badly. Here gentlemen, take these in lieu of pay. I didn't get a hurrumpff out of that guy.
Almost teared up....realized I was thinking of something completely different.
I own SFH rentals in Central Missouri....some in Jefferson City. Live/work 1000 miles away these days...but those folks are best tenants I've ever had.
And yes....the stench of corruption can be seen rising from the State buildings on a clear day....
And yes....Missouri is backwater enough that politicians would play gotcha games with religion....HolyRollingCockSUckingEvangelicalPiecesofDogSHit...indeed.
With all that said....who really gives a fuck.
Zerohedge is getting more and more full of shit every day.
He was probably attempting to "shoot himself in the foot", and missed.
They say House Of Cards is the number one show in China, its shit like this that makes that show all the more realistic
We got rid of some folks
History has shown that when senior members of a criminal totalitarian regime need to be killed, they are frequently given the suicide option.
Assisted, if necessary.
the pinhead above is gone
just gone ok.
he was not jewish
this fine non israelite did not dance during the 9 and 11 ritual no sir
although he looked like the bastard brother of the michael chertoff group head
pin head michael chertoff.
he was not in know way connected with the pin headed rabbi that keeps us all safe in the homelands the the honorable michael chertoff
group
not a sad day for israel not.
the mossad or aman did not clean up this non jewish matter what what
Where are the self strangulation suicides, and the blunt force trauma suicides?
Maybe it was the Ferguson Police.
Episcopalian lives matter!!!
What bank did he work for part time?
Putin dunnit.
Btw, wasn't Netty going to have Obuma suicided? I read on VT a little while ago. Does Netty work for Putin?
Based on the voice mail he was going to talk about the false accusations about being Jewish. The timing of the voice mail and being shot minutes later almost demand that it was not suicide.
My best guess is that those corrupt higher ups did not want to be exposed for making accusations about someone being Jewish, as that might be perceived as a bad thing to be. lol
Or the corrupt higher ups didn't want to be exposed like the others
"He has busted at least 30 state officials for embezzlement."
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/oh-no-mo-gop-gubernatorial-candi...
Also:
"Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich says an audit released Monday shows that Gov. Jay Nixon violated Missouri's constitution when he withheld money from two recent state budgets."
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/schweich-releases-audit-critical-nix...
Was he going to warn them about the New Madrid earthquake that the Missouri Emergency Management trained for? Tom Lupshu just reported that thousands of morgue trailers were being delivered there (on youtue).
My Dad knew him and worked with him. He doesn't suspect any foul play, but I would like to know more before I dismiss this as a simple suicide.