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'Suicide' Baxter Talked About Hiring a Bodyguard
The Independent - London ^
| 1/28/2002
| David Randall
Posted on 01/28/2002 7:54:34 PM PST by ex-Texan
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Guess he wanted a bodyguard to help him kill himself ?
DUH!
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posted on
01/28/2002 7:54:34 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: ex-Texan
Your link is to the Santa Barbara Independent.
To: ex-Texan; _Jim
...and the FBI is now investigating his death... Just more conspiratorialists hugh _Jim.
To: ex-Texan
But we won't know what he knew now. Along with the documents shredded by the auditors from Andersen, the testimony of J Clifford Baxter will remain one of the untold mysteries of the Enron affair, however far into the recesses of George W Bush's administration and corporate America it eventually reaches. Blatant spin. Tie the death to Bush as often as possible, and eventually it becomes conventional wisdom.
If he was offed, it was much more likely to be because of what he knew about Billy Boy Clinton.
To: ex-Texan
bump to the top please
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posted on
01/28/2002 8:13:34 PM PST
by
timestax
To: M. Thatcher
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posted on
01/28/2002 8:15:15 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: EternalHope
I believe that there are some very, very bad boys at Enron who wanted to silence Mr. Baxter ....
Wonder how long they will remain in the U.S. ?
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posted on
01/28/2002 8:17:39 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: M. Thatcher
To: Senator Pardek
Thanks, Senator. I can always count on you for good linkage.
To: ex-Texan
bump
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posted on
01/28/2002 8:24:48 PM PST
by
PRND21
To: ex-Texan
I presume that donating to the Catholic Church means he was Catholic. If he was Catholic, he knows that suicide means eternal damnation. He left behind a wife and two kids, including an 11-year-old daughter.
This was a wealthly man who probably still had some of his wealth despite now owning worthless stock. If he was the whistleblower wanting to do the right thing, I don't know that he saw prison in his future. Money could buy competent legal representation.
Perhaps he was just so filled with shame that he took his own life? It doesn't add up. It sounds, on the surface at least, that he was a man who had a conscience and was trying to do the right thing.
The coroner wasn't Fahmy Malik was it?
To: doug from upland
I suspect a very professional hit which has now passed several initial tests ....
Forensic firearms experts would test Baxter's hands and wrists and shirt sleeves, etc. for gunshot residue. There will be a distinctive pattern of residue and that pattern would have specific scientific characteristics. The pattern ought to match up with other evidence, including how the weapon was held when it was discharged.
My instincts tell me the wife and the victim's family ought to be requesting a second round of forensic testing to verify and confirm initial conclusions.
If the man was Catholic, or was educated in Church schools or universities, I must resist a finding of 'suicide'.
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posted on
01/28/2002 9:13:20 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: doug from upland, ex-texan
I've purposely ignored the Enron story, but Baxter's "suicide" cannot be ignored. This smells.
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posted on
01/28/2002 11:15:38 PM PST
by
onyx
To: doug from upland
Since he seems to have been a man of conscience, perhaps it's because of his sense of guilt that he killed himself. As for him being Catholic, he wouldn't be the first Catholic to kill himself. He talked about getting bodyguards, I wouldn't be surprised to hear he got phone calls from disgruntled shareholders who threatened him. People who have lost money have been known to kill. Remember that daytrader a couple years ago who went into the daytrading office and started shooting at people? The guy had lost thousands of dollars daytrading and took out his anger on the daytrading center.
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posted on
01/28/2002 11:39:41 PM PST
by
psjones
To: onyx
This smells. I don't think he was in the car that long after he killed himself!
To: doug from upland
The Houston Chronicle reported that yes, the Baxter's gave quite a bit to a Catholic Church Building Fund BUT emphasized that they were not members of that church. I have not seen an "official" (back of the newspaper) obit either about funeral/memorial services, funeral home, survivors,pallbearers, etc. Everything about the death was on the front page of the paper so maybe they decided not to do the obit and keep the rest private. I have not seen today's paper yet. There might be something in there.
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posted on
01/29/2002 1:04:38 AM PST
by
soozer47
To: doug from upland
The coroner wasn't Fahmy Malik was it?
U won funi gi!
To: DoughtyOne
Just more conspiratorialists hugh _Jim. Has the The Independent - London got a Reporter in Houston?
Or are they sourcing their stories from other stories/postings on the internet?
Have you figured out yet that Baxter was a long-time Enron Employee?
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posted on
01/29/2002 5:51:46 AM PST
by
_Jim
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To: _Jim
Jim, the stories I've been reading on the internet don't mention half of what is in this article. Have I missed some, are you saying the reporter has compiled this story...from where?
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