Death of Rockefeller's McDonald Is an Apparent Suicide

[D-Mack]

James S. McDonald, head of investment-management firm Rockefeller & Co. and a board member of NYSE Euronext, died on Sunday in Massachusetts, according to people familiar with the matter. He was 56 years old.

In a statement Monday night, Barclay McFadden III, who identified himself as a friend of Mr. McDonald's family, said he "took his own life." The family has "no further comments beyond this," the statement added. "

Jim McDonald was an exceptional individual who provided strong leadership of Rockefeller & Co. for over eight years," Colin Campbell, Rockefeller & Co. chairman, said in a statement on Monday. "He will be missed by all of us privileged to have known and worked with him."


Mr. McDonald had been president and chief executive since 2001. The New York-based investment-advisory firm evolved out of a family office set up by the oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller in 1882 to manage his family's assets, and it still manages some family money. Other clients include endowments, foundations and family offices. The firm, not affiliated with the Rockefeller Foundation, has $28 billion assets under administration and doesn't disclose its investment returns


The circumstances surrounding Mr. McDonald's death weren't clear. He is believed to have died in New Bedford, Mass. A police spokesman there couldn't be reached for comment. A person who responded to a phone call to Mr. McDonald's home in New York City declined to commen


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If it's apparent, then it's apparent

[Mega]

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Getting some what dangerouis out there, Dick Chenys Whore toped herself as did the Madam.........
Mike

[metalman]

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James S. McDonald, head of investment-management firm Rockefeller & Co. and a board member of NYSE Euronext, died on Sunday in Massachusetts, according to people familiar with the matter. He was 56 years old.

In a statement Monday night, Barclay McFadden III, who identified himself as a friend of Mr. McDonald's family, said he "took his own life." The family has "no further comments beyond this," the statement added. "

Jim McDonald was an exceptional individual who provided strong leadership of Rockefeller & Co. for over eight years," Colin Campbell, Rockefeller & Co. chairman, said in a statement on Monday. "He will be missed by all of us privileged to have known and worked with him."


Mr. McDonald had been president and chief executive since 2001. The New York-based investment-advisory firm evolved out of a family office set up by the oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller in 1882 to manage his family's assets, and it still manages some family money. Other clients include endowments, foundations and family offices. The firm, not affiliated with the Rockefeller Foundation, has $28 billion assets under administration and doesn't disclose its investment returns


The circumstances surrounding Mr. McDonald's death weren't clear. He is believed to have died in New Bedford, Mass. A police spokesman there couldn't be reached for comment. A person who responded to a phone call to Mr. McDonald's home in New York City declined to commen


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If it's apparent, then it's apparent

these guys off themselves if they lose mob $$$ & can't live with the stress that comes with knowing they they may get whacked at any time... look for a mob connection to turn up later.

[Slimprofits]

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The local paper doesn't have someone on it. They're just carrying the AP story:

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/...S=fzn6s39k.zoo

James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday.

McDonald, 56, was found in his vehicle at about 3 p.m. Sunday behind a car dealership in Dartmouth, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office.

There was no note, but McDonald "made a phone call to his wife earlier in the day," Miliote said Tuesday, without getting into specifics of the call. The death is still under investigation.

[Slimprofits]

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a few other recent and perhaps notable deaths:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...=aXX9.46XaVU0#

Finn M.W. Caspersen, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Beneficial Corp., was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. He was 67.

Police, responding to a call to check on him, found Caspersen on Sept. 7 behind an office building in the Shelter Harbor community of Westerly, Rhode Island, where he owned a home, said spokesman Edward St. Clair. He died from a single gunshot wound, the medical examiner said.

[Slimprofits]

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Police in a Chicago suburb say that a former fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich committed suicide.

Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans says 51-year-old Christopher Kelly also tried to hurt himself last Tuesday night after pleading guilty to fraud charges involving O'Hare International Airport.

Evans says friends took Kelly to the hospital that night, but they did not go in after Kelly agreed to get help for his depression. Evans says Kelly left a note Tuesday but did not disclose what it said.

Three nights later, Kelly was found slumped over the steering wheel of his Cadillac Escalade in a lumberyard and was taken to a hospital. He died Saturday morning, less than a week before he was to report to prison.

[santafe2]

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As Buffett said, You only find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out. The real criminals are laughing at these guys for having a conscience.

[don]

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As Buffett said, You only find out who's swimming naked when the tide goes out. The real criminals are laughing at these guys for having a conscience.

Laughing? No, this is an asset loss that's part of their cost-risk of doing business. Like insurance, on that rare occasion the damn house will go and burn down.

[D-Mack]

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one more

Financier's sudden death revives old questions

International financier Danny Pang seemed to represent the ultimate success story: a self-made Taiwanese immigrant with a gold-plated resume and an investment company that raked in hundreds of millions from the wealthy in his homeland.

By GILLIAN FLACCUS

Associated Press Writer
SANTA ANA, Calif. —

International financier Danny Pang seemed to represent the ultimate success story: a self-made Taiwanese immigrant with a gold-plated resume and an investment company that raked in hundreds of millions from the wealthy in his homeland.

But Pang's life story had a darker side, a strange tale that began when his ex-stripper wife was murdered in their home and ended last Saturday when Pang died suddenly of unknown causes as federal authorities pursued him for allegedly defrauding investors of millions.

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