Posted on 10/26/2009 11:07:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday.
Jeffry Picower, 67, was found at about noon Sunday by his wife, Barbara, at the bottom of a pool at their oceanside mansion. She pulled him from the water with help from a housekeeper. He died a short time later at a nearby hospital.
An autopsy conducted Monday found he suffered a heart attack and drowned, said Dr. Michael Bell, chief medical examiner for Palm Beach County. The death has been ruled accidental, and the heart attack was brought on by heart disease. Toxicology tests are pending.
"Obviously, we won't have results for a couple of weeks but we don't anticipate them showing anything," Bell said. "If they do and it shows something unusual, we will amend the death certificate to reflect that."
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When these are done we will know.
/johnny
Damn convenient ACCIDENT.
Ken Lay please pick up the courtesy phone, where ever you are..
And drowning when you're swimming alone isn't surprising either. It doesn't need to be a heart attack - it can be something as innocuous as a leg cramp or a coughing fit. Don't EVER swim alone, guys, it's just not safe.
(BSA Lifeguard cert., Red Cross Lifeguard and W.S.I.)
Not really.
Of course, the heart attack was preceded by 128 stab wounds, 25 gunshots, and a pound of ground glass in his eyes.
I guess Ken now can have that foursome for tee off at the Hades Country Club.
I'm guessing he died at the bottom of that pool, if not earlier. Dying and being pronounced dead aren't the same thing.
He was lounging by the pool in his Palm Beach $33 million oceanside mansion...what kind of stress could he have, lol.
Just remember what Robinson Crusoe’s dad said (you can look it up).
The only relevance that the toxicology reports would have is if something found in his blood was capable of causing a heart attack (e.g.,..coke...meth...) or was capable of making it more difficult to call for help or get out of the pool during the heart attack (e.g.,alcohol,tranquilizers).
Heart attacks happen.He had gender,age and,most likely,fear/stress (the possibility of jail) working against him in the heart attack department.
If one’s head is held beneath the water until the thrashing stops, that person will have a cardiac event.....that is a heart attack. End of story.
hmmm that was quick.
um... heart failure is a cause of death. so are you saying it was a heart attack that lead to heart failure? tell me how you have determined that.”? you noticed his heart was stopped?
I don't know about you but I've never spent a single minute behind bars and very much want to die that way.If I ever had reason to believe that there was a 30 year prison stretch in my future my guess is that I'd develop a stress problem.
A *serious* one.
Possibly it is just a natural heart attack, but this man who lived as a respected philanthropist and was now in a lot of trouble had a reason to off himself or seek escape in drugs.
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