Ex-Chesapeake CEO McClendon dies in car wreck
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Source: Yahoo News/CNBC
Aubrey McClendon, a founder and former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy (CHK), died in a fiery single-car crash Wednesday, a day after he was charged with conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases.
McClendon, 56, crashed into an embankment while traveling at a "high rate of speed" in Oklahoma City just after 9 a.m. local time, said Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department. Flames engulfed McClendon's vehicle "immediately," Balderrama said. He added that police determined McClendon was not wearing a seatbelt after earlier being unable to tell.
"He pretty much drove straight into the wall," Balderrama said.
He said police still needed to determine an exact cause of the crash, but a medical event was "possible." McClendon was expected to turn himself in at 11 a.m., Balderrama added.
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-chesapeake-ceo-mcclendon-dies-194802665.html#
Interesting timing. He was indicted and was to turn himself into the police at 11am.
IamTheNoodle
(98 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2naSalit
(86,050 posts)questioned. Interesting how this crash is so similar to some others where an individual met their demise on their way to speak up, so to speak.
Ford_Prefect
(7,821 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Take the seatbelt off, speed up, aim for the wall.
Probably knew he would do time and couldn't face it.
Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)Former billionaire with big legal problems.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)shenanigans on the news. I would do a careful ID of the body if I were the authorities. Just saying.
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)This thread is a duplicate of:
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