Hedge fund manager Sanjay Valvani has been found dead at home. He was being charged with insider trading.
Who cuts his own jugular vein with a knife? Just sayin'.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-21/visium-s-valvani-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide-dow-jones-says
Only men in good health with a wife and family who would probably only get a sentence measured in months and not years at the end of the day slice their own necks.
It does take serious balls. The Japanese make a complicated ritual out of disembowling themselves otherwise they could not finish the job. Disembowling yourself has to be easier than going OJ on your own neck
Somebody should write a song about this. Something along the lines of another week gone by and another dead bankster buys the farm. We can have a train in the ballad, a Connecticut commuter train and some lyrics about how nobody is around to cook the hound dog a steak anymore. From a life of doggie luxury to the dog pound in a day. It would be a nice touch. A pig man passed but somebody misses him. His dog.
What a horrible way to discuss the tragic death of a fellow human being.
Totally lacking in empathy or any regards for the gents wife an children, and if guilty, hardly the worst crime a person can be found guilty of, trading on some inside info, the same horrible crime against humanity that Martha Stewart committed.
Of course he had money, but was more likely an employee of a piggie than one himself, but even if he were this would not be called for.
The hatred of one political group against anyone with a high paying job and nice home is getting very overdone and speaks to an evil, hatred, and jealously of a fellow human that is far worse than the alleged crime committed here IMO.
Prince, and Amy Winehouse were wealthy to and killed themselves, should we write songs about their dog or cat missing them, rather than the weeping and moaning we listen to when one of their own wealthy passes?
Well, this suicide is evidence of three things:
1) Money was EVERYTHING to Sanjay Valvani.
2) GREED killed Sanjay Valvani, not insanity.
3) GREED is bad.
RE's response is based on the FACT that 99.999% of the people in Sanjay Valvani's net worth world got there by criminal behavior. We certainly need less of those crooks around. That said, any suicidal death is a tragedy. I suspect, however, that Sanjay Valvani suicided BECAUSE he knew that his family would be able to keep more of the SWAG he stole. That's the way our "wonderful legal system" perpetuates corruption.
People like Sanjay Valvani are all about "gaming" (such an innocuous word for the massive amount of tragic and unnecessary death and misery it produces) the system.
We stop this shit in our society or we go extinct, PERIOD.
You might find me a bit more sympathetic to your viewpoint AG, were we talking about the chairman of Monsanto, or the tobacco industry pigs that willfully poisoned impressionable kids like myself with their poisons.
Your view on this matter however, is just plain wrong in my opinion, and has diminished greatly in my eyes your copious lectures on empathy.
Also, you told me in a prior post that you didn't much care for my pal Ashvin, whom I thought was just grand; let me assure you I feel the same way about your pal RE as well and your adulation of him.
The old hound dog is wantin' to bite back for perceived slights, eh? WHATEVAH.
I think you should take a nice deep breath and drop this one upsmanship business. It's bad for you blood pressure. Ya ain't gettin' any younger, old chum.
Despite my STRONG views about your inability to empathize with the outrageous slings and arrows certain members of the proletariat receive 24/7 complements of the wealthy (AND their bought and paid for lackeys) as much as you empathize with the bought and paid for sidekicks of the wealthy, I recognize that you are sincere in your views and generally do not try to bullshit people about the fact that you believe a certain amount of greed is, uh, prudent.

I guess I pushed the wrong button when I said GREED is bad.

You apparently have some rather selective empathy. Did you NOT read about how wealth causes multiple DEATHS and misery to other humans? Okay, I guess you don't agree. But you should just come out and say so, instead of trying to pin the EDD tag on me.
GO, I apologized to you for believing you were the one that fished up the expert at verbal dancing and goal post moving. You were WRONG to claim RE had censored him.
If that pisses you off, there is no reason for you to take it out on me.
I was WRONG to believe you were promoting a fight.
As to my "adulation" of RE, if you were privy to some of the conversations I have had with him and Surly over the years, you would be forced to stick that false equivalence BULLSHIT where the sun does not shine.
RE DOES NOT run this place the way I would. He is a NICE GUY compared with me. If you had the mistaken impression that I am some kind of a pushover, you are mistaken.
There is no reason for you to be so testy.
LOOK at the views here right now.
This
is NOT helping. I am going back to my current audiobook. It's really quite good, although a bit gory.

The Remaining (The Remaining 1) D J Molles Audiobook
https://youtu.be/qJw5X3o7LD8