Posted on 03/18/2014 5:43:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A 28-year old Manhattan investment banker has died after an apparent suicide, police sources said.
Kenneth Bellando, who worked at Levy Capital since January, was found dead on the sidewalk outside his East Side building on March 12, after allegedly jumping from the sixth-story roof, sources said.
Bellando, a former investment bank analyst at JPMorgan, is the son of John Bellando, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Condé Nast. His brother, John, a top Chief Investment Officer with JPMorgan, works on risk exposure valuations.
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Why aren't politicians more like bankers?
Dangit, you beat me to pinging him.
Maybe it’s not suicide. Maybe, like the 4yr old boy up the block, they’re just trying to fly...
Are they all wearing superman capes?
A 28 year old banker is going to commit suicide because of the end of the US dollar as a reserve currency? Really? I figure its more likely his girlfriend dumped him.
Whatever it is generates plenty of heat but little of interest.
Implausible. If they were that clued in to some impending, disastrous currency move, they’d have just parked the majority of their own liquid assets in a stable first-world currency other than the dollar rather than being difficult and getting themselves suicided.
Maybe in a sober moment, they realize what they have done to people and can’t live with it,or let somebody know they were going to spill the beans. If these are really suicides, I have always felt that a person that kills himself knew what he had done more so than I did, so it is his choice. Not very Christian I know, but maybe an act of free will.
If these are murders, different story. Brings to mind the Vatican banker found hung from a bridge years ago.
I agree it’s implausible but something is going on here. I don’t buy that all these high-finance types have suddenly decided to off themselves. This isn’t a bunch of middle school girls in a copy-cat suicide ring.
My uneducated guess is that these deaths are serving as a warning to everyone else involved in the destruction of the US dollar. No one who values their life will feel motivated to reveal the details of any anomalies they might observe in the currency and commodity markets in the near future.
"Must be a Board Meeting."
Because the politicians don't have any skin in the game and are mostly not accountable to anyone.
I am not a banker, although my screen name may suggest otherwise. I just don't understand the animosity toward bankers here on Free Republic when the root of most of our financial problems are caused by the people in our governments, all branches and all levels.
What do you get when you cross a mason with a banker?
The crossed mason has the banker killed!
Maybe there’s a Star Chamber at work, under the realization that these people are immune to the normal consequences of criminal behavior.
If such a process is at work, and humans being what they are, someone will fight back at some point and some of the “killers” may get the surprise of their lives.( imagine a very pissed off financier uploading the picture of a dead would be assassin on the web!) If wealth is being stolen, you can’t hide the wealth very long....it exposes those doing the stealing in the long run. It’s just that things will get very nasty before the end games work themselves out.
Like the other stories of these apparent suicide of bankers there is no mention of a note.
Reminds me of ALAS BABYLOn - scene where after world gets nuked the banker unable to face reality that world has changed shoots humself........
You think Obama pushed him?
I would liken this to what some Wall Street investors did after the crash in 1929 except that these individuals are doing it pre-crash because they see it coming and know it’s going to make 1929 look like child’s play.
The financial sector has always had one of the highest rates of suicide, when ranked by profession. Why the sudden concern?
There are no predictable outcomes from giving people hallucinogenic drugs. They might think they can fly, but they are just as likely to run around naked or stare at the carpet for four hours.
Well, they ARE the Masters of the Universe.
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