Like I say, when we see isolated bits of news here and there over the course of a couple of years, it doesn’t give us the Big Picture.
Here’s your GLOBAL Big Picture. ~ BP
If you had any doubts about the dead banker meme, take a look at this list and how these people died. Simply stunning . . .
Though this list is not sourced to anything other than Anonymous, (and therefore could be a spoof) it looks convincing and could be easily cross checked. I have not done that because in this case “easy” would take several hours to cross confirm out with a list this big and there is something big going on today that is eating my time.
- Nov – Shawn Miller, 42, banker found dead in bathtub with throat slashed.
- Oct – Edmund Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, threw himself in front of a speeding Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
- July – Julian Knott, 45, JPMorgan Executive Director,Global Tier 3 Network Operations, SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND
- June – Richard Gravino, 49, Application Team Lead, JP Morgan, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown/pending
- June – James McDonald – President & CEO of Rockefeller & Co – apparently self-inflicted, GUNSHOT WOUND
- May – Thomas Schenkman, 42, Managing Director of Global Infrastructure, JP Morgan, SUDDEN DEATH, cause unknown/pending
- May – Naseem Mubeen – Assistant Vice President ZBTL Bank, Islamabad, SUICIDE jumped
- May – Daniel Leaf – senior manager at the Bank of Scotland/Saracen Fund Managers, FELL OFF A CLIFF
- May – Nigel Sharvin – Senior Relationship Manager Ulster Bank manage portfolio of distressed businesses, ACCIDENTAL DROWNING
- April – Lydia (no surname given) 52, France’s Bred-Banque-Populaire, SUICIDE jumped
- April – Li Jianhua, 49, Non-bank Financial Institutions Supervision Department of the regulator, HEART ATTACK
- April – Benedict Philippens, Director/Manager Bank Ans-Saint-Nicolas, SHOT
- April – Tanji Dewberry – Assistant Vice President, Credit Suisse, HOUSE FIRE
- April – Amir Kess, co-founder and managing director Markstone Capital Group private equity fund, CYCLIST HIT BY CAR
- April – Juergen Frick, Bank Frick & Co. AG, SHOT
- April – Jan Peter Schmittmann – former CEO of Dutch Bank ABN Amro, (Possibly suicide, SHOT)
- April – Andrew Jarzyk – Assistant Vice President, Commercial Banking at PNC Financial Services Group, MISSING/DEAD
- March – Mohamed Hamwi – System Analyst at Trepp, a financial data and analytics firm, SHOT
- March – Joseph Giampapa – JP Morgan lawyer, CYCLIST HIT BY MINIVAN
- March – Kenneth Bellandro, former JP Morgan, SUICIDE jumped
- Feb = John Ruiz – Morgan Stanley Municipal Debt Analyst, died suddenly, NO CAUSE GIVEN
- Feb – Jason Alan Salais, 34, Information Technology specialist at JPMorgan, FOUND DEAD outside a Walgreens pharmacy
- Feb – Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a cyber-currency exchange firm, SUICIDE
- Feb – James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, FOUND DEAD
- Feb – Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, SUICIDE
- Feb – Li Junjie, JP Morgan, SUICIDE
- Feb – Ryan Henry Crane, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
- Feb – Richard Talley, UNKNOWN CAUSE
- Jan – Gabriel Magee, SUICIDE
- Jan – William ‘Bill’ Broeksmit, HUNG/POSSIBLE SUICIDE
- Jan – Mike Dueker, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
- Jan – Carl Slym, SUICIDE
- Jan – Tim Dickenson, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
- Dec 2013 – Robert Wilson, a retired hedge fund founder, apparent SUICIDE leaped to his death from his 16th floor residence
- Dec 2013 – Joseph . Ambrosio, age 34, Financial Analyst for J.P. Morgan, died suddenly from Acute Respiratory Syndrome
- Dec 2013 – Benjamin Idim, CAR ACCIDENT
- Dec 2013 – Susan Hewitt – Deutsche Bank, DROWNING
- Nov 2013 – Patrick Sheehan, CAR ACCIDENT
- Nov 2013 – Michael Anthony Turner, Career Banker, CAUSE UNKOWN
- Nov 2013 – Venera Minakhmetova Former Financial Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CYCLIST HIT
- Oct 2013 – Michael Burdin, SUICIDE
- Oct 2013 – Ezdehar Husainat – former JP Morgan banker, killed in FREAK ACCIDENT when her SUV crushed her to death
- Sept 2013 – Guy Ratovondrahona -Madagascar central bank, Sudden death – cause not confirmed
- Aug 2013 – Pierre Wauthier, SUICIDE
- Aug 2013 – Moritz Erhardt, SUICIDE
- July 2013 Hussain Najadi CEO of merchant bank AIAK Group, SHOT
- July 2013 Carsten Schloter, SUICIDE
- July 2013 Sascha Schornstein – RBS in its commodity finance, MISSING
- April 2013 David William Waygood, SUICIDE
- Mar 2013 – David Rossi – communications director of troubled Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), SUICIDE
- Fang Fang – JP Morgan, China, DISGRACED
- Nick Bagnall – Director at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, son accidentally killed himself while trying to re-enact a Tudor hanging
- Robin Clark – RP Martin -Wolf of Shenfield City banker shot, SURVIVED
- Kevin Bespolka – Citi Capital Advisors, Dresdner Bank, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, Seriously injured and son dead
- Robert Wheeler, 49, a Deutsche Bank financial advisor, DISGRACED
- Chris Latham – Bank of America, ON TRIAL, Murder for Hire
- Igor Artamonov – West Siberian Bank of Sberbank, Daughter found dead (POSSIBLE SUICIDE)
- Hector Sants, Barclays – resigned due to stress and exhaustion, after being told he risked more serious consequences to his health if he continued to work – a remarkable turnaround as the Church reportedly approached him two months later and was told he had made a full recovery,
- April 21st Bruce A. Schaal, 63, died suddenly Banker in Twin Lakes for 35 years
- April 20th Keith Barnish 58, Died Suddenly (Still working as Senior Managing Director at Doral Financial Corporation. Previously Bear Stearns, Bank of America Senior Vice President
- March 12th Jeffrey Corzine, 31, son of MF Global CEO and Chairman Jon Corzine involved in major banking crime was found dead in an apparent suicide.
- Keiran Toman, 39, former banker who believed he was being stalked by a reality TV crew starved to death in a hotel room, an inquest heard today.
- [this is actually a continuation of #62] An inquest was opened after his death in July 2010 but his family asked for a second hearing as they were not informed. Police found all of Mr Toman’s possessions in the room, but despite documents mentioning his family, failed to tell them he had died.
- Nicholas Austin, 49, A former bank manager from Hersden died after drinking antifreeze in an effort to “get high”. was found in a coma by his wife Lynn at their home in Blackthorne Road on October 5. He died the same day.
I took special note of the last one – he died drinking antifreeze in an attempt to “get high”! Funny one that is, as if a banker would be stupid enough to try that. The list is shocking, I never saw so many suicides and car accidents. No gall bladder stones, cancer deaths, strokes, or simply falling ill, it is just a littany of action. That pretty much says it all.