Posted on 03/02/2016 12:28:02 PM PST by Nachum
Oklahoma City Police said in a news conference Wednesday that Mr. McClendon, the former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was found dead after driving into a wall at a high rate of speed. Authorities were trying to determine whether the crash was the source of his death or whether he had suffered a health issue beforehand.
The indictment Tuesday alleged that Mr. McClendon orchestrated a campaign to keep bid prices down from 2007 to 2012, while he was chief executive of Chesapeake, amid a land-leasing boom across the U.S.
Mr. McClendon, 56 years old, had vigorously contested the charges in a statement Tuesday evening.
“The charge that has been filed against me today is wrong and unprecedented,” he said. “All my life I have worked to create jobs in Oklahoma, grow its economy, and to provide abundant and affordable energy to all Americans. I am proud of my track record in this industry, and I will fight to prove my innocence and to clear my name.”
Probably so. I have a Lincoln Navigator, a very similar vehicle. Thing’s built like a tank. Very hard to hurt myself in any collision if I’m wearing a seat belt. Also front and side air bags. OTOH, I could kill myself with it if I decided go disable the safety features and drive it at high speed into a stationary object.
In the final moments of Michael Hastings’s life, the car he was operating accelerated to a treacherous speed before swerving off the pavement, mounting the median and slamming into one of the palms. There were no skid marks—no apparent attempt to brake before the collision.
"Hastings became a vocal critic of the surveillance state during the investigation of reporters by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2013, referring to the restrictions on the freedom of the press by the Obama administration as a "war" on journalism. His last story, "Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans", was published by BuzzFeed on June 7. Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California."
There have been stories on how some cars can be hacked and taken over by an outside entity. Anyone with any thoughts on this (other than ridicule)?
Nicholas Hastings. Anoter for the soetoro dead pool.
The Department of Justice said in a statement Tuesday that McClendon was suspected of orchestrating a scheme between two large energy companies, which are not named in the indictment, from December 2007 to March 2012. The companies would decide ahead of time who would win bids, with the winner then allocating an interest in the leases to the other company, according to the statement.
It's possible.
There was no reason for anyone shady to want him dead. Unless you count the thousands of people he had ripped off through his CHK fraud.
I suspect she melts some day from a bucket of water.
2013 Chevy Tahoe? With OnStar?
Hmmmmmmm..
Well he said he was going to fight the charges, so perhaps his co-conspirators were nervous that he was going to drop a dime on them to plea bargain his escape.
If so, he lost that board vote.
Unions got him.
The global oligarchy does not allow its puppets to give court testimony or out the boss of CIA as their stooge.
A flawed man to be sure. But he was on the cutting edge of the fracking revolution. He changed this country incalculably, and for the better. He also changed geopolitical dynamic for the indefinite future. The next you fill up your tank for half what you used to, you can thank Aubrey McClendon.
Is that the year it was founded or the number of satisfied customers?
Yeah what’s a captain of industry doing in a 3 year old Chevy? Borrowed the nanny’s car?
I retired from his company. Knew him and was in several meetings with him. Billionaire who would be king when natural gas was $13. Just is what it is. Sad all the way around
I’ll take flawed over fake any day.
I hear ya on filling up. $2.13 a gallon last Monday.
Stock holders fired him 3 or so years back. Not with chk anymore
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