Ex-Wall Street Banker Suicide In Courtroom After 'Guilty' Verdict For Arson

Hmm he would have probably gotten 6 months to a year..strange.

yeah, wtf, throw away your life insurance etc b/c of this? Hell, half the battle was already over (trial, initial humiliation, etc.) why fumble in the red zone?

and another thing, am i retarded, or does every news reporter/article use 'insure' instead of 'ensure' that something will not happen???

Jesus... like the first response said, he wouldn't have been in for too long and he's already been through the humiliation of being found guilty. 4 kids and he threw his life away because of that? It's just insurance fraud, it's not like he shamed his family by killing/raping somebody... geesh. He couldn't have been in the right state of mind to do that. That's too bad.

I think it was a pretty baller move, actually. And he didn't void any life insurance (at least none that he acquired more than 24 months ago).

Budd Dwyer was more on the baller side of things, even though his suicide was way more gruesome/scarring than this guy's. This guy was just charged with arson/insurance fraud (as far as I assume by barely reading anything ha). Both pretty weak reasons to kill yourself though.

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If you look you’ll see this guy put something in his mouth at :35, then again at 5:06, then he’s down for the count at 7:40. Wild stuff.

it really makes you think about what's worse between having money and losing it and not having money in the first place. i guess humiliation is a big part too.

Totally irrational decision, but I'd expect no less from a Yale guy. White collar tends to view crime as a lot more serious than it is, probably because they never expected to have to deal with that in their lives. I could come up with a million better ways to scam for money than burning down my house but to each his own I guess.

Freaky sounds he makes... dying must be pretty scary.

Monkeys, watch and learn.

Your net worth should never be equal to your self-worth.

Penniless meant lifeless to him. Dude was dead inside when he struggled to pay his mortgage and wouldn't downgrade his lifestyle. It was not the verdict that killed him or enticed him to commit suicide. It was the fact that he no longer had $$$$, could no longer afford to live in a "mansion" and would have probably downgrade his social activities.

Prior to the arson, he bragged on TV about his "$800" hiking shoes. That tells you a lot about how his self-worth and net-worth intertwined. I don't want to judge a man who is no longer here to defend himself, but he would have killed himself or do something perilous regardless of the verdict as long as the money was no longer at his finger tip.

The only good thing he did was to take his life, and his only unlike the psychotic bankrupted guys who kill themselves, their children, and their spouses.

All embarrassment and bullshit aside, maybe he just didn't want to deal with the possibility of up to 16 years in prison??

6 months? That's it? WTF??? Seriously bad value system, dude could have cut back his lifestyle and finished out his life happily. I'm between sad for the guy for feeling like he had to do all that, and being pissed off for him being such a huge asshole.

first time offenders aren't going to get the max sentence. first time offenders usually get off really easy.

I'm going to have to write a post about what it's like to have a bunch of money and then lose it. Trust me when I say there is nothing worse in the world (not even the death of a loved one).

I don't think any of you have read the vid description on Liveleak...(who knows if this is right or not)

"No one was injured in the blaze but the charge of committing arson of an occupied structure holds the same number of years in prison in Arizona as second-degree murder."

lol fuck you Abdel... he was doing commentary on NHL networks, I'm really not sure why he's working at a pawn shop. He did start a lil while after their show got established though.

They have some decent looking women in one of those video clips. I would like to see more of the blonde. Other than that, no concerns.

*Yale alumnus

Edmundo Braverman:

I'm going to have to write a post about what it's like to have a bunch of money and then lose it. Trust me when I say there is nothing worse in the world (not even the death of a loved one).

Either you are being sarcastic or stupid. Can't decide which.