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Wealthy Sweet’N Low magnate leaps to death from NYC apartment
New York Post ^ | January 15, 2021 | January 15, 2021

Posted on 01/15/2021 9:57:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

A wealthy, 89-year-old artificial sweetener magnate who made Sweet’N Low a household name has committed suicide by jumping from his Park Avenue apartment building, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Donald Tober, CEO and co-owner of the New York-based 1,400-employee Sugar Foods, leapt to his death just after 5 a.m. Friday, and was found in the courtyard of the luxury Upper East Side building between 65th and 66th streets, the sources said.

He was struggling with Parkinson’s disease, the sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donaldtober; jumper; sugar; suicide; sweetandlow; sweetnlow
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1 posted on 01/15/2021 9:57:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Rear Window (1954) Thelma Ritter , James Stewart (What's Big Sugar got to be nervous about?)
2 posted on 01/15/2021 9:57:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
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3 posted on 01/15/2021 9:59:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Which one of the heirs did it?


4 posted on 01/15/2021 10:00:03 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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Sounds like an Arkancide.


5 posted on 01/15/2021 10:00:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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I guess we will see what sugar substitute Big Pharma rolls out.


6 posted on 01/15/2021 10:04:56 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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RIP

Maybe the cause was actually an overd-ose.


7 posted on 01/15/2021 10:12:32 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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That stuff makes me depressed too.

I switched to monk fruit. Now I’m a happy man.


8 posted on 01/15/2021 10:13:02 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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The weekend of suicides begins.


9 posted on 01/15/2021 10:16:07 PM PST by rickomatic ( )
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I guess his apartment was bitter and high.


10 posted on 01/15/2021 10:16:15 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant ( Trump will always be my President, and Jesus Christ will always be my Lord)
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I won’t use any of those fake sugars. If I accidentally have one sip of Aspartame, I taste metal and get a headache. It’s been over 12 years.


11 posted on 01/15/2021 10:16:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Sweet N’ Lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


13 posted on 01/15/2021 10:17:43 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a serving spoon.


14 posted on 01/15/2021 10:18:17 PM PST by Noumenon (s long as you have a rifle, you still have a vote. (KTF))
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i cant stand the stuff- leaves a rotten taste for a long time-


15 posted on 01/15/2021 10:24:39 PM PST by Bob434
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I think it is sad.


16 posted on 01/15/2021 10:25:18 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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yeah, but leaping? Nope- not how i wanna go out- I wanna go out sound asleep like my Grandma did, not awake and screaming like all of her passengers did

(It’s a joke, no she did that way)


17 posted on 01/15/2021 10:26:33 PM PST by Bob434
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It is.


18 posted on 01/15/2021 10:27:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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‘89-year-old’ and then ‘jump’... Do go not go together... Can you say... ‘Assisted’ suicide?


19 posted on 01/15/2021 10:29:34 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Aspartame will do that to you! Ha,ha


20 posted on 01/15/2021 10:29:40 PM PST by NachOsten
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