Everyone lies on the internet

[AngryAmish]

So take what I say with the necessary tablet of salt.

But I am a lawyer. A trial lawyer to be specific. In every tort, when discussing proximate cause, the standard is A proximate cause, not THE proximate cause. One among many. For example, a doctor misses an operable tumor on an x-ray. The cancet is THE proximate cause of the eventual death, but A proximate cause is missing the tumor when treatment probably would have helped.

So if his corruption went undetected, probably no suicide. He lived quite a while with it undetected.