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PaisleyPajamas
05/12/09

In reply to Freddie Mac CFO Was Investigated by TARP after Suicide
Ugh. Does this mean the "suicide" could be maybe, "not a suicide?"

Dead people make the best scapegoats.
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krismry
05/12/09

In reply to Freddie Mac CFO Was Investigated by TARP after Suicide
This is important, you should follow up on this with someone who knows the score, like that guy Keifer Sutherland's dad played the part of in Oliver Stone's JFK movie. Then when you write the report just sign someone else's name to the story because you don't want to wake up with a horse's head in your bed. Ha ha! Just Kidding! Not really. Let this one lie, John, enjoy your life.
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Aaron Altman
05/12/09

In reply to Freddie Mac CFO Was Investigated by TARP after Suicide
Here's how to file your very own Freedom Of Information Act request!

[www.usdoj.gov]

Remember FOIA is only for the paperwork that Federal agencies are trying to hide from you (just kidding, Feds!); access to state and local records vary by state.
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htotheomo
05/13/09

@Aaron Altman: @LeeroySpitzer: I love you, but if you have to ask here, you may be doing it wrong.

However, not with M. John Cook!
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htotheomo
05/13/09

@Aaron Altman: People who can't look on the intertubes may have access because of the FOIA statutes, but it doesn't mean they should.

But then again, I believe in a strong, almost repugnant, press - regardless of party.
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Aaron Altman
05/12/09

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Gawker is doin' a Smoking Gun! ALSOME.
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LeeroySpitzer
05/12/09

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how do you even FOIA request something?
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abettertomorrow
05/12/09

@LeeroySpitzer:

[www.usdoj.gov]

Looks like you send a letter...
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htotheomo
05/12/09

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Look at you and your FOIA request! Yay John Cook!
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Pinekatz
05/12/09

@htotheomo: Damn, John! Gawker has always had a set. This time, it grew a brain.

After all the sad news about journalism-is-dead this week, I feel nothing but hope.
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htotheomo
05/13/09

@Pinekatz: I'm assuming you're talking about the brain trust that's leaving.

A set and a brain!
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Kittens are Furever
04/24/09

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I've never been lucky in life and often contemplated taking my life in some absolutely fabulous way like jumping off the Empire State Building or leaping in front of the Lexington Avenue Subway but I've always held back because there are so many hundreds of people whose lives revolve around mine....my friends and admirers....if I were to commit suicide it would be like I'm taking their lives too.
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Rumpelstilskin
04/24/09

@SuzieQ I Love You: But darling, think of the funeral! Frank Campbell for viewing, Jennifer Hudson singing "If they could see me now", be sure to choose the flowers too, no cheesy carnations or chrysanthemums.
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bboston88
04/24/09

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Was he involved with criminal activity? Who knows but damn people, the suicides "from the recession" are so sad. There's no reason to kill yourself and destroy your family to avoid jail or investigation. Hell, everyone gets out eventually.

My hiring partner at my first firm was a super nice guy, jovial, always very personable. One day..dead. Killed himself. Left wife and son behind. I'm still mad at him for that. He was so unselfish until he did the most selfish thing of all.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
04/24/09

@bboston88 (star please?): While I understand being upset, I don't understand why people consider suicide to be so "selfish". When someone dies of cancer, normally people don't get mad at the victims. Autopsies of suicides so some pretty major brain changes. However, I think there is a difference between a suicide from chronic depression, and a rash suicide to avoid jail/embarrassment, etc.
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Kittens are Furever
04/24/09

In reply to Freddie Mac Wanted Suicide CFO To Relax
I wonder if a more senior executive paid a hit man to knock this guy off and then make it look like a suicide.

A friend of mine was found dead in his office, it looked like a suicide, but they later found out his business partner paid someone to do it. It happens!
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Cheap Shot
04/24/09

@SuzieQ I Love You: Totally agree!
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Kittens are Furever
04/24/09

@Cheap Shot:

One of my friends from college had a son who had a lot of emotional problems who went missing for months and there was a massive search all over the Richmond, Virginia area....we all eventually concluded he had been kidnapped and taken to some other city. But then they found his body with a noose around his neck just a few hundred yards from his parent's home the following spring. The police initially ruled it a suicide but his parents pushed them to reopen the case cause they think someone kidnapped him, held him over an extended period and then killed him (making his death look like a suicide). The police are always looking to wrap up cases in the most expedient manner. I hope that doesn't happen here. (Was there a suicide note?)
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SybilDisobedience
04/24/09

@SuzieQ I Love You: Most suicides don't leave notes, so the lack of one doesn't necessarily mean anything untoward.
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Kittens are Furever
04/24/09

@SybilDisobedience:

thats VERY interesting! I always wondered about that.

I wonder if Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton left suicide notes. I'll have to look that up!
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PrincessKashmir
04/24/09

@SuzieQ I Love You: What a great day it is to be a dreamer in this beautiful country!
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SybilDisobedience
04/24/09

@PrincessKashmir: Ooh, you think so?
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GuyBitchy
04/24/09

In reply to Freddie Mac Wanted Suicide CFO To Relax
Really? A highly employable, wealthy young man with a family is so stressed by his job that he kills himself and effectively destroys said family instead of... resigning and trying to get another job?

Mmmmm.

A guy who recently hired private security to protect him and his family has a death wish and kills himself right where his family will logically be the first to find him instead of, say, jumping off a bridge somewhere? So... he wants to protect his family, and himself, yet destroy them at the same time.

Yeah, no.

Not buying it.
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Pope John Peeps II
04/24/09

@GuyBitchy: ha. do you know much about suicides? They all want to be found. They all want it to be public.
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SybilDisobedience
04/24/09

@Pope John Peeps II: They don't all want to be found. The Doe Network is full of long-dead bodies discovered in remote fields, skeletons with bullet holes in the heads and mummified remains still hanging from nooses in trees. Some people do these things in the most isolated places possible, and without ID, just because they don't want to be found or given a name.
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TheologicalSong
04/24/09

@GuyBitchy: I very much appreciate your words on this topic, GB.
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Cheap Shot
04/24/09

In reply to Freddie Mac Wanted Suicide CFO To Relax
NOt to cheapen his death but I haven't had a vacation for quite sometime and I know others out there that also can't afford to 'relax'.
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cando
04/24/09

@Cheap Shot: your name is so appropriate
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fuzzywhat
04/24/09

@Cheap Shot: Yeah, I always put them off because the idea of being gone and what could go wrong before or during is burdening.

I have one coming up after next week that's bugging me out, but I know I'll feel better once I'm there, and then you realize it's all not worth the stress, life goes on without you there.
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once
04/24/09

@Cheap Shot: 'take a vacation' is corporate-speak for 'you're f**ked.' Nobody ever says, aw you're working too hard, here's a pillow. More like, the prosecutors need time to sort thru your files
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Cheap Shot
04/24/09

@cando: um... thanks?
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Cheap Shot
04/24/09

@fuzzywhat: So true. These days I think people are so paranoid about losing their jobs that they put off their vacations. Have a great time!
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Cheap Shot
04/24/09

@once: lesson learned. I still have my suspicions about his suicide.
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CarnegieHill
04/22/09

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Hung himself? He's a human, not a venetian blind.

He hanged himself.
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Bklynexpat
04/22/09

@CarnegieHill: All of this crap about grammar in a posting about suicide reminds me of the time I went to my parents, as a teenager, to tell them I was contemplating suicide. My parents are the self-appointed Grammar, Syntax, Pronunciation, Punctuation and Spelling Police of the Universe, so their biggest concern was all of the above, instead of the fact that I was ready to swallow a bottle of pills. Who gives a shit if it's hung or hanged?! The man is dead, fuck grammar! Annoying. Get over it!
That is all.
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PandoraSpocks
04/22/09

@Bklynexpat: Though I understand what it is like to be raised by clueless humans claiming to be your parents, this is the second time Gawker has used "hung" instead of "hanged." (First was DFW, he should rest in peace.)

So, being as there are a lot of writers around the office, and many of the people reading this, like, you know, also write and edit stuff for a living, they should probably use the correct term.
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Bklynexpat
04/22/09

@PandoraSpocks: According to Random House, via dictionary.com:
"Hang has two forms for the past tense and past participle, hanged and hung. The historically older form hanged is now used exclusively in the sense of causing or putting to death: He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. In the sense of legal execution, hung is also quite common and is standard in all types of speech and writing except in legal documents. When legal execution is not meant, hung has become the more frequent form: The prisoner hung himself in his cell."
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PandoraSpocks
04/23/09

@Bklynexpat: Well, damn. This morning the Gray Lady says he hanged himself and the WashPo simply avoided the whole issue by saying he was found dead at home.

I take note but do not yet stand corrected!
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badasscat
04/22/09

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People don't commit suicide over job stress. Think about it - which is the easier way out? Hanging yourself or just sitting on the couch and not going to work anymore?

Quitting is always easier.

There had to be something more going on. His job may be a part of it, but you don't commit suicide unless you are deeply depressed and feel there's no way out. With job stress, there is always a way out: quit.

And yes, I know what it's like to feel trapped at a job. I still know I can quit at any time if I have to.
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GuyBitchy
04/22/09

@badasscat: Yes.
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TheologicalSong
04/22/09

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because every time a major corporate figure or politician who figures into a epochally society altering situation that's being investigated and may have plenty to reveal reportedly commits suicide, there would be absolutely no reason to question why there might be motivation by some implicated person of interest to silence this individual, and why the hierarchical power structure might collude to make sure it looks that way. and besides, the media tells us it's so! even belovedly irreverent blogs like Gawker! generally love your posts, Mr. Nolan, and their thoughtfully evenhanded, yet wryly righteous tone. but not even raising the possibility that there might be something to instigate, delve into, tangle over feels like complacent acquiescence to the received wisdom of the day. back to regularly scheduled programming! god forbid we at least dispute accepted paradigms!
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Kari's Favorite Mark
04/22/09

@TheologicalSong:You lost me at 'accepted paradigms.' Very Sarah Lawrence.
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MemeMyselfandI
04/22/09

@TheologicalSong: I believe that movie has already been made.
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TheologicalSong
04/22/09

@Kari's Favorite Mark: perhaps true conceptually, but the context seems a bit of a departure from what I would imagine to be the usual (at least according to the stereotype, the inevitably complacent employment of which I generally eschew) contretemps.
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TheologicalSong
04/22/09

@MemeMyselfandI: indeed. truth and fiction tend to mingle.
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PandoraSpocks
04/23/09

@TheologicalSong: You're kidding, right?
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TheologicalSong
04/23/09

@PandoraSpocks: as if I would be.
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Aaron Altman
04/22/09

In reply to Freddie Mac Suicide CFO's Stressful Career
If bankers had done as much due diligence on these bad home loans as those reporters had done chasing down the story, perhaps - perhaps - Mr. Kellerman would be alive today.
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