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Banker Suicides Return: DSK's Hedge Fund Partner Jumps From 23rd Floor Apartment
zero hedge ^ | 10/24/14 | tyler durden

Posted on 10/24/2014 9:48:12 AM PDT by Nachum

The summer, thankfully, has been largely bereft of the dismal trend of bankers committing suicide, but as Bloomberg reports, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the IMF, was found dead Thursday after apparently taking his own life by jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv. This is the 16th financial services executive death this year.

 

 

Bloomberg reports that Thierry Leyne, the French-Israeli entrepreneur who last year started an investment firm with former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has died. He was 48.

Leyne died yesterday in Tel Aviv, according to his assistant at the firm, who asked not to be identified. Le Figaro newspaper reported that he committed suicide.

 

Last year, Leyne joined Strauss-Kahn in establishing the Paris-traded firm Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners after the former IMF head bought a 20 percent stake to help develop the investment-banking franchise of Leyne’s company, Luxembourg-based Anatevka SA. Leyne had taken Anatevka public in March 2013 before joining forces with Strauss-Kahn, commonly referred to in France as DSK.

 

The new partnership -- usually called LSK & Partners by using both men’s initials -- was part of Strauss-Kahn’s efforts to rebuild his post-IMF life after he was charged in 2011 of criminal sex, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and the forcible touching of a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn denied the charges, which were later dropped. He settled the maid’s lawsuit in 2012.


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1 posted on 10/24/2014 9:48:12 AM PDT by Nachum
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For those who are keeping track.

http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpool.htm


2 posted on 10/24/2014 9:48:39 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

The medication I take for acid indigestion is made in Israel.


3 posted on 10/24/2014 9:53:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: Nachum

I don’t “get” suicide. The closest I’d come would be with terminally ill people in excruciating pain, but I don’t believe I’d do that even then, not my decision to make. Easy for me to say until I’ve been there, I suppose.

But, to do it over something as fleeting as money? Completely alien concept to me. Easy come, easy go. You get it back just as you got it the first time. It’s seldom permanent. So many wealthy individuals have gone through multiple cycles of boom and bust.


4 posted on 10/24/2014 9:53:45 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Nachum

Ooops...wrong thread! Sorry!


5 posted on 10/24/2014 9:54:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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Ooops...wrong thread! Sorry!

Your comment made sense to me.

6 posted on 10/24/2014 10:06:50 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Nachum

23rd floor? Yep, that’s gonna leave a mark.


7 posted on 10/24/2014 10:22:58 AM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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Ping.


8 posted on 10/24/2014 10:24:11 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Nachum

Banker-lemmings.


9 posted on 10/24/2014 10:30:22 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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maybe he was being chased by a naked Strauss-Kahne...


10 posted on 10/24/2014 10:53:05 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: telstar12.5

This has been the preferred means of suicide in the financial world since the stock market crashed in 1929.

Again, it’s only money, kids. This banker didn’t have a nest egg to see him through tough times? Like his furniture had already been put out on the street?


11 posted on 10/24/2014 10:56:56 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Nachum

It didn’t look like the Madoff deaths were on your list (were they considered bankers or just stock brokers?). Mark Madoff killed himself and Andrew Madoff died of cancer.


12 posted on 10/24/2014 11:00:57 AM PDT by Cecily
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The summer, thankfully, has been largely bereft of the dismal trend of bankers committing suicide

"Thankfully"??

13 posted on 10/24/2014 11:05:16 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Nachum
Way too much time to have second thoughts.
14 posted on 10/24/2014 11:07:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Nachum

That’s a lot of floors to think about what you just chose to do.


15 posted on 10/24/2014 11:10:56 AM PDT by mykroar (Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. - John Adams)
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I suppose we will all be getting letters from Nigeria asking for our help getting the millions of sheckles he stashed away out of the country.


16 posted on 10/24/2014 11:25:07 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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I did not include the Maddoff’s in this list as I am not sure how they are relevant.


17 posted on 10/24/2014 11:39:35 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

18 posted on 10/24/2014 6:22:47 PM PDT by null and void ("Agoraphobia": fear of the marketplace; "AlGoreaphobia": fear of the marketplace of ideas.)
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What the heck is it with all these bankers raining from the sky? My guess is they’re not all committing suicide.


19 posted on 10/24/2014 6:26:45 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: null and void

Another ‘trade secret’


20 posted on 10/24/2014 6:36:07 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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