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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 09:42 AM Mar 2014

Another Banker leaps to his death

A 28-year old Manhattan investment banker has died after an apparent suicide, police sources said.
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Bellando, a former investment bank analyst at JPMorgan, is the son of John Bellando, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Condé Nast. His brother, John, a top Chief Investment Officer with JPMorgan, works on risk exposure valuations.
Several John Bellando emails were cited during testimony at the Senate Finance committee’s inquiry into the bank’s losses during the infamous London Whale trade fiasco.


http://nypost.com/2014/03/17/investment-banker-leaps-to-his-death/

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Another Banker leaps to his death (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 OP
More rooftop banking... Earth_First Mar 2014 #1
Psst. Golden parachutes. jsr Mar 2014 #2
Good one! eom Fawke Em Mar 2014 #5
Settle for an umbrella. L0oniX Mar 2014 #6
Any other source besides the New York Post Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #3
I will stand with this report Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #4
My point is that even a stopped clock is right twice a day Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #28
NO....you implied that my story was not reliable Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #35
More ---> Petrushka Mar 2014 #44
The Daily Mail has the same story. gvstn Mar 2014 #7
Both are Murdoch properties Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #25
The Mail isn't a Murdoch paper nxylas Mar 2014 #29
Thank you for the correction Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #41
WTH? It's very reliable. WinkyDink Mar 2014 #10
The NY Post is junk Renew Deal Mar 2014 #13
The New York Post is a Rupert Murdoch rag Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #27
These suicided bankers must have a guilty conscience about stealing most of my 401(k) Submariner Mar 2014 #8
each suicide we send to our Morgan Stanley guy who hasn't made a dime for us in many years medeak Mar 2014 #21
What? You're sending banker suicide reports to the guy you currently hughee99 Mar 2014 #24
Mine went down back then but it has since gone back to higher than it was before. Nye Bevan Mar 2014 #33
When mine went down back then I got out of stocks and mutual funds Submariner Mar 2014 #40
Don't feel special... sendero Mar 2014 #45
SHM Mr Dixon Mar 2014 #9
Isn't that what the Chinese factories do? Erect netting all around the building several yards up calimary Mar 2014 #30
yes Mr Dixon Mar 2014 #37
Star Chamber hamsterjill Mar 2014 #11
Notice almost all Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #17
Vettttttty Interesting. hamsterjill Mar 2014 #43
So many Fredo bankers. valerief Mar 2014 #12
Crap... What is getting ready to happen? LiberalArkie Mar 2014 #14
Look at those dates! I remember a mention of these a few weeks ago Nightly Business Report 2banon Mar 2014 #16
someone is cleaning house. nt Javaman Mar 2014 #20
Maybe they believed the story that the chip put in their head was for their safety? fleabiscuit Mar 2014 #23
nothing. and no one will notice. librechik Mar 2014 #32
That guy... sendero Mar 2014 #46
This is getting a bit weird. blackspade Mar 2014 #15
Yes it is... Berlum Mar 2014 #18
OR...... Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #19
Yup, that has been my thought TBF Mar 2014 #22
Do I see a pattern here? Iliyah Mar 2014 #26
Do a lot of you folks posting here really believe there's a cabal hiring high-tech assasssins? Rozlee Mar 2014 #31
assassination? it's extreme, but evidence shows it is what they do. librechik Mar 2014 #34
Jumping from the sixth floor seems like a really bad idea to me. Nye Bevan Mar 2014 #36
Maybe he was afraid of heights Orrex Mar 2014 #42
An alarming trend it is but bkanderson76 Mar 2014 #38
Isn't this like the 7th or 8th guy? Lunacee_2013 Mar 2014 #39
No suicide, training for the new Olympic sport.... "involuntary cliff diving" NM_Birder Mar 2014 #47

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
1. More rooftop banking...
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 09:53 AM
Mar 2014

These guys really ought to know how dangerous this is.

I mean, seven of your colleagues have perished while rooftop banking this year alone.

JP Morgan should issue a statement to their employees on the dangers of this...

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
4. I will stand with this report
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 10:20 AM
Mar 2014

because.

1. easily verified with NYPD

2. Local NYC story.

Yes the NYpost sucks but I have my
sources

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
28. My point is that even a stopped clock is right twice a day
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:35 PM
Mar 2014

and giving traffic to a Rupert Murdoch-owned publication should be avoided. Clicking on Murdoch links puts money in Murdoch's pocket.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
35. NO....you implied that my story was not reliable
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:55 PM
Mar 2014

so wait another day and then the AP or Cnn might pick it up

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
7. The Daily Mail has the same story.
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 10:30 AM
Mar 2014

I know people hate the Daily Mail because they sensationalize headlines and some stories. They cite twelve deaths where the Post says 8 verified suicides. I'll link anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583385/Banker-28-kills-TWELFTH-finance-suicide-year.html

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
29. The Mail isn't a Murdoch paper
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:41 PM
Mar 2014

It's owned by the equally right-wing Viscount Rothermere. Not that it makes a huge difference, but it's important to get your facts straight.

Renew Deal

(81,866 posts)
13. The NY Post is junk
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:43 AM
Mar 2014

I don't have a problem with the post being used for this story, but the post is hardly "reliable."

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
8. These suicided bankers must have a guilty conscience about stealing most of my 401(k)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:26 AM
Mar 2014

back in 2008. I wish.

medeak

(8,101 posts)
21. each suicide we send to our Morgan Stanley guy who hasn't made a dime for us in many years
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:22 PM
Mar 2014

eight now!

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
24. What? You're sending banker suicide reports to the guy you currently
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:27 PM
Mar 2014

have your money invested with? I'm sure I must have completely misunderstood that.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
33. Mine went down back then but it has since gone back to higher than it was before.
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:53 PM
Mar 2014

What happened there, did the banksters find a conscience and return my money?

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
40. When mine went down back then I got out of stocks and mutual funds
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:56 PM
Mar 2014

and stayed out after fear of losing all to those crooks. At 63 I had run out of time in the work force to chance leaving it in hoping for a comeback, time to preserve whats left.

In hindsight, I probably would have gotten it back and then some under Obama, and that's bothersome for me, but surpassing that, my distrust is much higher of fellow Americans who are from the republican/conservative train of inferior thought processes.

The crash was timed perfectly by Wall St and the Bush regime 1% pulling Dubya's strings. It caught those of us who are the oldest sector of the baby boomers and many of us bailed out to save something not knowing if it would go up again in a decade or more, so Wall St won when we left our nest eggs on the table for them to gobble up. Simple is that.

sendero

(28,552 posts)
45. Don't feel special...
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 07:26 AM
Mar 2014

... they are lining the sheep up for another shearing as we speak. And it will be coming within a few years now and it will be as brutal as 2007 if not more so.

Some people just never learn.

calimary

(81,346 posts)
30. Isn't that what the Chinese factories do? Erect netting all around the building several yards up
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:43 PM
Mar 2014

from the ground level! The idea being - if you try to jump out an upper-story window, you fall into the nets instead.

hamsterjill

(15,222 posts)
11. Star Chamber
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:38 AM
Mar 2014

I'm telling you...it's the Star Chamber.

[Star Chamber being the movie from the 90's starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook.]

LiberalArkie

(15,719 posts)
14. Crap... What is getting ready to happen?
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 11:50 AM
Mar 2014

PROFESSIONALS IN 2014
There have been a spate of suicides amongst financial services employees since the beginning of 2014. They've occurred in London, the U.S., Singapore and Hong Kong.
1. William Broeksmit, a 58-year-old former senior executive for Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in at home after apparently taking his own life in South Kensington in central London, on January 26
2. Karl Slym, the 51 year old Tata Motors managing director was discovered dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27
3. Gabriel Magee, the 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, whodied after plummeting from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London's Canary Wharf on January 27
4. Mike Dueker, the 50-year-old chief economist of US bank Russell Investments was discovered dead near to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State on January 31
5. Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead on February 4 after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
6. Tim Dickenson, who was a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, died in late January, in as yet unexplained circumstances
7. Ryan Henry Crane, the 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago on February 3 at his home in Connecticut
8. Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong on February 19
9. James Stuart, the former National Bank of Commerce CEO was found dead in Scottsdale, Arizona on the morning of February 19. The cause of death has yet to be announced
10. Autumn Radtke, the CEO of First Meta, a digital currency exchange firm who was found dead on February 28 outside her Singapore apartment.
11. Ed Reilly, 47, a divorced father-of-three who worked as a trader at Vertical Group in Manhattan. He jumped in front of a Long Island Rail Road train on March 11
12. Kenneth Bellando, 28, an investment banker at Levy Capital Partners jumped off his building in Manhattan's Upper East Side on March 12


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2banon

(7,321 posts)
16. Look at those dates! I remember a mention of these a few weeks ago Nightly Business Report
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:02 PM
Mar 2014

just coinky dinkys' ?

TBF

(32,071 posts)
22. Yup, that has been my thought
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:24 PM
Mar 2014

as well. I don't think it is at all clear as to whether these are suicides or "being suicided". Young folks here ... I smell a cover-up.

Rozlee

(2,529 posts)
31. Do a lot of you folks posting here really believe there's a cabal hiring high-tech assasssins?
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:48 PM
Mar 2014

The cabal, I'll buy. The assassins are taking it a bit too far. Especially since they're not showing much finesse. Tossing guys from tall buildings doesn't score you any subtlety points. A vengeful, driven killer with a personal agenda might be closer to the mark, but he's showing a great deal of brass balls and an ability to avoid detection that would do justice to the most outlandish intrigue novels, not real life. I agree, as a form of suicide, it's unusual, but maybe it's a banker thing? Most of them work in high-rises and that may be the most obvious choice of handy demise that pops into their heads. The 'why' is the real mystery.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
34. assassination? it's extreme, but evidence shows it is what they do.
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:53 PM
Mar 2014

for many decades. Yes, here in the US and elsewhere. The bigger the lie, the easier it is to get people to believe it, according to Goebbels. Why? They don't want to bother with real democracy. They have an agenda, and means to an end etc. And they know they can get away with it. The who is more important than the why.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
36. Jumping from the sixth floor seems like a really bad idea to me.
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:56 PM
Mar 2014

Jumping from the sixtieth floor would result in immediate death upon impact. But if you junp from the sixth floor it is entirely possible that you will be lying there in agony for a while before dying. You could even survive and end up as a quadriplegic. And in any case, surely there are many less messy methods of suicide. Of course this all assumes that the wild conspiracy theories are false.

bkanderson76

(266 posts)
38. An alarming trend it is but
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:16 PM
Mar 2014

the mere mention of 'banker' curdles my milk and makes what little blood still flowing through my calcified veins come to a boil.
I must truly say though I find slight bemusement in these latest events and would be more satisfied if we could get the little jumpers to act more regularly. Get the numbers up, increase the bottom line, increase the portfolio....ya know, the stuff them fat cats tell ya before they really stick ya.

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)
39. Isn't this like the 7th or 8th guy?
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:45 PM
Mar 2014

WTF is going on here? More bad news to come or did they owe a few debts they just could not handle? Is the whole house of cards about to come down or was it all a scam to begin with?l

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