Right, these "suicides" are not related to the 50 BILLION dollars that Madoff scammed from his investors with help from various bankers.
And just because some of that money wound up in Israel is no cause for alarm.
It's just a series of odd "coincidences" that always seem to pop up anytime that SLC on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean appears involved in some illegal scheme.
Look at it this way: If a gang of armed thugs robbed a bank for $20,000, they'd probably have no qualms about shooting some people to make their escape.
So how many people do you think a well armed gang of vicious thugs would be willing to kill to steal 50 BILLION DOLLARS?
Banker Suicide: Head of Fund Invested in Madoff Is Found Dead 12-23-2008
Source: NY TimesRene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a founder of the hedge fund Access International Advisors, was found dead Tuesday in his office in Manhattan. His fund reportedly lost as much as $1.4 billion that had been invested with Bernard L. Madoff, the money manager accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Mr. de la Villehuchet, 65, was pronounced dead Tuesday morning, and a New York City Police spokesman, Paul Browne, told DealBook that he had apparently committed suicide. He was found with wounds to his arms, with one leg propped up on the desk and a trash can nearby to catch blood. (Read more about Mr. de la Villehuchet here.)
He had been trying to recover the money that Access International raised in Europe and invested through Mr. Madoff’s business, according to La Tribune, which first reported the news, citing an unnamed source.
According to New York City Police Commission Raymond Kelly, Mr. de la Villehuchet was at the office last night at 7 p.m. on Monday, working late. Unusually, he had asked the cleaning staff to help clean his office. Later in the evening, one of the firm’s partners asked security to check on the office and see if Mr. de la Villehuchet was still there.
The door was locked, Mr. Kelly told DealBook.When security opened the door Tuesday morning, they found Mr. de la Villehuchet, with cuts to his arm, wrist and his bicep apparently made with a box cutter. No suicide note was found, and while pills were present, it is unknown if Mr. de la Villehuchet had ingested them.
Mr. de la Villehuchet’s firm managed Luxalpha, a $1.4 billion Luxembourg-based fund sold across Europe, invested in Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. Access International last week called Mr. Madoff’s arrest “a shocking development” in a note to investors. Investors in the fund included a unit of Rothschild and several clients of the Swiss bank UBS.
Oops!! Stole some money from the Rothschilds?
Bad move, bubba.
And this one. Yes, definitely strange. And kept private, per family wishes.
Uh-huh.
Alex Widmer, 52, CEO of Bank Julius Baer, dies - International Herald Tribune December 5, 2008
ZURICH: Alex Widmer, the chief executive of Bank Julius Baer and a well respected figure in Swiss private banking, has died unexpectedly at the age of 52, the bank said.
Widmer passed away "unexpectedly" on Wednesday night, the bank, Switzerland's biggest independent wealth manager, said in a statement.
A spokesman, Jan Bielinski, declined to give a cause of death, saying "it's a matter of privacy for the Widmer family," and "there is no link between their personal tragedy and the ongoing business of the bank." The Swiss police declined to comment on the death.
And another. Bad month for bankers, eh?
Top HSBC Banker Found Hanged In Hotel: Christen Schnor's Body Discovered In London Sunday December 21, 2008
Scotland Yard said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Danish-born Christen Schnor.
The 49-year-old's body was discovered at around 2.40pm on Wednesday at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge, west London.
The Mail on Sunday reported Mr Schnor, who leaves a wife and two children, was found hanging by a belt, naked in a closet in his room.
A HSBC spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with his family and we will do all we can to help them at this difficult time."
Christen did not seem under any pressure and was a quiet man. He always appeared hard-working, diligent and very capable.
Submitted by Greg Bacon on Tue, 2008-12-30 18:49
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It is true these men could have taken their own life, but we have seen how the thought projection devices, and even the alien mind, can drive one to suicide. See, "The Next Voice You Hear" by Delamer Duverus.