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Editor dies in fall from New York Times office building
Associated Press | 8/22/2002

Posted on 08/22/2002 11:59:55 AM PDT by ArcLight

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To: ProudAmerican2
Inane comments like this are why I put little faith in the Clinton body count. Perhaps you should loosen your tin foil hat because it is cutting off circulation to your brain.

Please. The voice of reason has no place here. These goofs simply want to speculate that since this guy knew how to spell Enron, he must have been offed. There is still speculation by these people that the Houston suicide late last year was suspicious (it was pretty well proven a suicide).

I wish I had the time on my hands these people do to come up with ludicrous scenarios. Folks: unless you have some hard evidence (i.e. an eyewitness, an overheard conversation, a phone tap, etc.) and not loony speculation (the guy knew some stuff on Enron so he must have been silenced), call it what it was, a suicide, and go on to more important things.

121 posted on 08/23/2002 7:24:33 AM PDT by 1L
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To: LarryLied
Maybe somebody ought to hook a bungie cord up to Bill Kristol.

He could be next. Enron paid him $100,000 to work as an "advisor."

Give me a break. Peggy Noonan was on their payroll too. Do you expect her to take a header? And Paul Krugman and Larry Kudlow were good for $50 grand from Lay.

Your theory on this thread has been highly speculative at best. Maybe you ought to get some facts to back it up before continuing to fan the flames of a very damaging rumor, dragging other ideological foes of yours in as it suits you.

122 posted on 08/23/2002 7:30:12 AM PDT by beckett
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To: ArcLight
Story buried in Fridays NYT Obit section.

OBIT.

123 posted on 08/23/2002 7:40:42 AM PDT by LostTribe
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To: aristeides
Make that the THIRD Enron suicide...

Remember Enron Vice Chairman J. Clifford Baxter found shot to death in his 2002 Mercedes Benz ??

124 posted on 08/23/2002 7:42:59 AM PDT by gulfwarvet
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To: beckett; Howlin
Tell me what I've said not factual.

Peggy Noonan was paid to write a speech for Enron. That is not the same as the relationship the other 4 journalist had with the company .

Did make an error above. Fastow's assets, not Skilling's, were frozen by the Feds less than 24 hours before Myerson killed himself.

Mentioning Kristol and bungie cords was meant as gallows humor. He was stupid, or rather arrogant, to take $100,000 from Enron.

125 posted on 08/23/2002 7:46:23 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: beckett; LarryLied; tallhappy; Miss Marple
Larry's theory seems to be strongly supported by the fact revealed in this morning's Washington Times and NY Post that Myerson's suicide was preceded by that of fellow NY Times financial reporter Agis Salpukas. A Lexis search on "Agis Salpukas" and "Enron" gets 43 hits, many of them articles by Salpukas about the company. The couple of them that I looked at appeared, like Myerson's pieces on Enron, to be puff pieces.
126 posted on 08/23/2002 7:55:26 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: 1L
I have a good friend who works for the business section of Newsweek in NYC - for an editor. He has gone through at least seven bosses - all of whom had to be sent home after heart attacks in the office, nervous breakdowns and strokes. It may seem ludicrous given the nature of the business (after all, these people are not astronauts) but these jobs carry a tremendous amount of internal and external pressure. I'm not at all surprised at the suicide. And from what I've heard (mostly from the old Spy Magazine), The Times is a miserable place to work.
127 posted on 08/23/2002 8:05:43 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: aristeides
Let's buy the "marriage/money" problems explanation. If Myerson were distraught over that would he have had the energy to get out of bed, clean up, get dressed, commute to downtown Manhattan, go to his place of work and jump off the roof? Or would he have, in solitude, killed himself somewhere else?

Seems to me he wanted to make a point to everyone at the New York Times. Maybe he was just that kind of guy. Or maybe something connected to his work led him to his death.

128 posted on 08/23/2002 9:21:31 AM PDT by LarryLied
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To: ArcLight
Here's the "rest of the story", from today's NEW YORK POST.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/46824.htm

TIMES EDITOR IN DEATH PLUNGE
By KEITH J. KELLY and WILLIAM J. GORTA
> "August 23, 2002 -- A New York Times business editor suffering from financial and marital difficulties jumped to his death from the newspaper's landmark building in Times Square yesterday, police said.

Allen Myerson, 47, scribbled out a note at his desk in the third-floor newsroom before slamming down his pen and asking a colleague which floor the roof was on, sources told The Post.

Police said Myerson, who worked at the newspaper since 1989, leaped from the 16th floor shortly before 10 a.m. and landed on the third-floor roof of a parking garage next door.

Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. sent an e-mail to his staff, informing them of Myerson's death.

"As with any family, we're called on to endure our share of tragedies," Sulzberger wrote. "This is one of those times and our support for one another will help all of us get through it."

Times Editor Howell Raines declined to speak with reporters.

Myerson, who edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing: The Experts' Guide to Prospering in a Changing Economy," was said to be in reduced financial straits. He and his wife, Carol Marie Cropper, recently sold their home in tony Montclair, N.J., and moved to smaller digs in Glen Ridge, according to sources at The Times.

Colleagues also said Myerson, the assistant business editor for weekends, would ask to see the real-estate classified ads before they were made public because he intended to move to Manhattan - to split from his wife.

Myerson had lost weight recently, colleagues said, and had begun a physical-fitness regimen.

Police said Myerson's note - written on lined yellow paper - requested his possessions be distributed among his relatives, but made no provision for his wife, the personal finance editor at BusinessWeek. Carol Cropper did not return calls for comment.

Before coming to the Times, Myerson worked for the Lexington Herald-Leader and Dallas Morning News.

His death was the second suicide by a member of the Times business section in less than three years.

Agis Salpukas, 60, was found floating in the Hudson River in January 2000 after jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

Salpukas was being treated for depression at the New York Psychiatric Center before he plunged to his death wearing a hospital gown."

Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Murray Weiss

129 posted on 08/23/2002 9:45:24 AM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123; ArcLight
If this isn't typical. Does anyone else find this unusual? Two people who are in such financial distress are considered "experts" who should advise the rest of us?

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Myerson, who edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing: The Experts' Guide to Prospering in a Changing Economy," was said to be in reduced financial straits....

Police said Myerson's note - written on lined yellow paper - requested his possessions be distributed among his relatives, but made no provision for his wife, the personal finance editor at BusinessWeek. Carol Cropper did not return calls for comment.

130 posted on 08/23/2002 10:49:36 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: 1L
Please. The voice of reason has no place here. These goofs simply want to speculate that since this guy knew how to spell Enron, he must have been offed. There is still speculation by these people that the Houston suicide late last year was suspicious (it was pretty well proven a suicide).

My mistake. What was I thinking?

131 posted on 08/23/2002 11:32:57 AM PDT by ProudAmerican2
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To: LarryLied
Very interesting. Thanks for connecting the dots for me in your #91.
132 posted on 08/25/2002 3:15:16 PM PDT by Bigg Red
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http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8793/

Justice for Allen
By Lisa DePaulo
Published Jun 9, 2003

...they knew the five-year hell of fertility treatments the couple, both 47, had gone through in their attempt to conceive. On July 5, they’d tried one last time, and, miraculously, it took... Later, on the way out to the parking lot, the wives were walking ahead, and Kevin Buckley turned to his friend. “Allen, you’re a little quiet,” he said. “That’s because I’m getting a divorce,” Allen replied... his sisters... are embroiled in a breathtakingly aggressive and unprecedented lawsuit against Carol Myerson over Allen’s estate... about $150,000 in probatable assets... Allen’s $100,000 Times life-insurance... his $230,000 Times 401(k), the proceeds from the sale of the dream house, and the couple’s car, worth $2,000... the menorah Allen got when he was 5, the $441 in cash he had in his wallet, and who will get his Harvard diploma.


133 posted on 09/04/2009 8:10:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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