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Cavallo

(348 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 06:49 PM Mar 2016

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.
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Ex-Chesapeake CEO McClendon dies in car wreck (Original Post) Cavallo Mar 2016 OP
Hanging out with Ken Lay? IamTheNoodle Mar 2016 #1
just trying to save the country some money Angry Dragon Mar 2016 #2
Kept him from being 2naSalit Mar 2016 #3
Probably had a few "friends" to protect. Or maybe had some help? Ford_Prefect Mar 2016 #4
Quick suicide. FLPanhandle Mar 2016 #5
Seems like a suicide. Lucky Luciano Mar 2016 #6
Hey...I've seen plenty of episodes of Forensic Files, and I've also seen plenty of silvershadow Mar 2016 #7
Locking Chemisse Mar 2016 #8

IamTheNoodle

(98 posts)
1. Hanging out with Ken Lay?
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 06:52 PM
Mar 2016
/nm

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. just trying to save the country some money
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 06:55 PM
Mar 2016

2naSalit

(86,050 posts)
3. Kept him from being
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 06:58 PM
Mar 2016

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)
4. Probably had a few "friends" to protect. Or maybe had some help?
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:00 PM
Mar 2016

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
5. Quick suicide.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:01 PM
Mar 2016

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)
6. Seems like a suicide.
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:23 PM
Mar 2016

Former billionaire with big legal problems.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
7. Hey...I've seen plenty of episodes of Forensic Files, and I've also seen plenty of
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:52 PM
Mar 2016

shenanigans on the news. I would do a careful ID of the body if I were the authorities. Just saying.

Chemisse

(30,793 posts)
8. Locking
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:57 PM
Mar 2016

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141366285

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