Posted on 12/04/2024 3:55:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was one of several senior executives at the company under investigation by the Department of Justice when he was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday.
Thompson — who was killed in what police called a targeted shooting outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown — exercised stock options and sold shares worth $15.1 million on Feb. 16, less than two weeks before news of the federal antitrust probe went public, according to a Crain’s New York Business report from April.
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Earlier this year, UnitedHealth was hit by one of the largest healthcare data breaches in US history, the company estimating as many as one-third of Americans’ private data — potentially including Social Security numbers — were compromised in the ransomware attack.
The company wound up paying the hackers a $22 million ransom...
The massive firm — with annual revenue of around $372 billion — later said it estimated its financial cost as a result of the hack to be around $705 million...
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If he had a high insurance policy... it wouldn’t surprise me if he hired the guy to kill him so his family could collect if he was facing charges and jail time.
My theory. Did he have a suicide exclusion on his life insurance?
Are you suggesting maybe the shooter is a regular stockholder who was left holding the bag?
Wow. Grisly.
Rumor?
That should be the standard presumption. Rebuttable, but only if the negative is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
I heard UnitedHealthcare had hired AI to find ways to deny payouts to their customers.
better than committing suicide if you are wanting to take care of your family
A dumpster might do the trick
“Rode an E-bike to commit the crime.”
So he’s doing more to save the planet than most Freepers (me included), thus we have consider that aspect.
“...wanting to take care of your family”
To arrive at such a conclusion...to commit to such a plan for “taking care of” one’s family...would require one to apply an almost inconceivably effeminate line of reasoning.
How impenetrably darkened (over how many sin-filled decades?) would one’s intellect need to have become to allow one to seriously to consider this?
I was just imagining a situation where a man with an insurance policy for millions, possibly 10’s of millions has done something illegal and knows he faces a lifetime in jail and possibly lawsuits that might financially ruin his family.
Now many would simply kill themselves in such a situation.
But, a smarter man might hire a killer to have himself murdered instead. Both situations end with the guy dead, but in one his family is enriched, instead of financially devastated.
I am not saying it is right, just that it is a possibility considering this guy was facing charges.
Okay, starting to understand the possible machinations of a sick mind under extreme duress.
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