CFO of Freddie Mac found dead.

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It's sad. Even if he stole or mishandled the money, and I am not alleging that he did, it is still just money at the end of the day.

It wasn't just the money...even if he did anything illegal. If he did commit suicide...there was something else eating away at him. You don't go from a carefree, healthy, happy life...to suicide in one step.

I think it's sad when anyone commits suicide...when you think of the pain they must have been going through to take that drastic a step.

Yeah, just like when Owen Wilson attempted suicide.

I would have never imagined.

I wasn't making the assumption. I was illustrating the point that someone who commits suicide clearly wasn't living a carefree, happy life despite outward appearances.

It is just money but some people it's all they have and without it they feel they have nothing.

And if they are using it to compensate or for self worth it's sad but for the ones that intentionally are greedy and ruin other peoples lives because of money they need to kill themselves and do the world a favor.

Just money?

I'm sure that's how the retiree who's counting on her 401k to pay for that expensive medical treatment feels about it.

Money is the medium by which we negotiate trust. You do something for me, I give you money so that someone will do something for you in the future. If your money is worth nothing, your trust that you'd be taken care of in return for taking care of me is betrayed.

What the hell is this crap supposed to mean? I you have something to say, say it. This reminds me of a Ron Paultard post, along the lines of:

Not at you FellOnEarth I am just building on your comment.

I am guessing that that crap means he got a traffic ticket a month ago. What that has to do with anything is beyond me.

BTW depressed/suicidal people are self destructive and sometimes a traffic ticket is just a traffic ticket.

it was over a year ago and it doesn't have anything to do with anything other than that most people go through their whole lives without getting ticketed for driving like an asshole.

And I'm sure lots of people who do get ticketed for driving like assholes don't commit suicide. I don't know what this has to do with anything.

i wasn't trying to make a point. it was just a tidbit.

Thank you pointing out the ticket was written 13 months ago. It just serves to make my and FreakPirate's comments more meaningful.

Maybe next time you can find a tidbit that is not so stale.

Ah! So you've never been pulled over? Now if you'd said "AGGRIVATED ASSAULT" within the last month, then it might have meant something.

Virginia Code § 46.2-868.1: Aggressive driving; penalties.

So he was guilty of a misdemeanor and not an infraction, but it's still not a felony. People make simple mistakes but that doesn't mean they kill themselves for it a year later. I think you're reaching here. He was probably just stressed out from his career, perhaps his family life was falling a part, who knows.

yeah ok thanks i appreciate that.

That ticket really means nothing without context.

Example: If a truck in front of you suddenly hits the brakes hard in order to make an illegal left turn across a double yellow line and you have to pass them on the right in order to avoid hitting them, a cop can give you that exact ticket.

When you go to court, you would get asked a simple yes or no question: did you pass the truck on the right? If you answer yes, you get convicted - the illegal and dangerous driving of the other person has no bearing if the judge feels like convicting you, and there are plenty of hard-ass cops and traffic court judges in the moneyed VA/DC suburbs.


Maybe the guy was really driving like an asshole, maybe not, but like I said, without context it's not a useful measure of anything.

CONSPIRACY: Maybe it was meant to look like a suicide!

That only happens in movies or in war or in government or in corporate malfeasance or... Oh hey!

it was his double. he's on an island somewhere with MY FUCKING MONEY!

Touche sir, you have it! Something like that happened in Mexico with a former drug lord who "died" on the operating table getting a major face lift (something they even alluded to in the movie Traffic). I thought the same thing (jokingly) when Ken Lay of Enron died, but I really do think he's dead (though these people don't).

Dude lived less than a mile away from my parents.