J.P. Morgan Employee Falls to Death in Hong Kong

[Earth_First]

Source: WSJ

HONG KONG—An employee of J.P. Morgan ChaseJPM +0.58% died on Tuesday after falling from the roof of the bank’s Asian headquarters in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district.

Police said they received a report of a 33-year old male on the rooftop of Chater House, a well-known office block in down town Hong Kong, around two o’clock local time. The man later fell from the building before being transferred to Ruttonjee Hospital in Wanchai where he was pronounced dead.

Sources, including employees at J.P Morgan, said the dead man worked at the bank. Details on his role at the bank were not immediately available.

“A sad and tragic incident occurred in Chater House, Hong Kong today which is currently being investigated by the police. Out of respect for those involved, we cannot yet comment further. Our thoughts and sympathy are with the family that’s involved at this difficult point in time,” a spokeswoman for the bank said in an emailed statement.

The incident in Hong Kong comes after a string of deaths among finance workers in London, including a 39 year old male who fell from J.P Morgan’s offices at the Canary Wharf skyscraper. Police described that death as non-suspicious.


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[BeyondGeography]

1. They say bankers fall in threes...

Or something.

[Earth_First]

2. Who's counting?

I am.

This is eight in two weeks.

With one missing journalist.

[demigoddess]

37. I think we need a chart and

a body count to keep track. Sometimes news is repeated. And names aren't mentioned.

[Earth_First]

42. The list so far...

- On January 26, former Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit was found dead at his South Kensington home after police responded to reports of a man found hanging at a house. According to reports, Broeksmit had “close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.”

- Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old senior manager at JP Morgan’s European headquarters, jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London on January 27, landing on an adjacent 9 story roof.

- Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police are describing as a suicide. He was reported missing on January 29 by friends, who said he had been “having problems at work.”

- Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead earlier this month after apparentlyshooting himself with a nail gun.

- 37-year-old JP Morgan executive director Ryan Henry Crane died last week.

- Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, although the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

...and the missing journalist:

David Bird, 55, the oil markets reporter who had worked at the Wall Street Journal for 20 years and vanished without a trace on the afternoon of January 11, has this in common with the other three tragedies: his work involves a commodities market – oil – which is under investigation by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for possible manipulation.

[medeak]

47. you got it...thanks!

posted way below re timeline

[reformist2]

3. I love the "+0.58%" included in the article.

[marble falls]

4. "Non suspicious", eh? Need a bridge?

[olddad56]

41. how suspcious do they need it to be? It seems contagious to me.

what did these jumpers know that I don't know YET?

[marble falls]

52. And it will get worse before it gets better. How many midmanagement functionaries have to die.....

before the the banksters leaders get arrested?

[bluedigger]

5. JP Morgan might want to consider limiting rooftop access.

Then again, I'm sure they have employee insurance, so this might be a new profit center for them.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. This is likely. You can bet they're making some coin off these falls. Financiers are real makers

unlike the rest of us takers.

[TeeYiYi]

43. I just finished watching...

...Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore, for the first time. What a good movie.
Anyway, that was the first I'd heard about employee insurance. Looks as though the recent spate of dead bankers might just be an income stream.

TYY

[Arugula Latte]

7. Curiouser and curiouser ...

[PasadenaTrudy]

10. Most peculiar, I say...n/t

[sakabatou]

13. I wonder what we'll find if we go down the rabbit hole

[Dopers_Greed]

8. Job creators

Think of all the new positions in the funeral industry they are helping create: morticians, pallbearers, priests, gravediggers, cemetary gardeners, etc.

[rocktivity]

9. And some of you are spending good money

to watch House of Cards.


rocktivity

[blackspade]

11. 'falls' huh?

yeah, right.

[eggplant]

12. Are they going to have to start putting nets around the banks, too?

or just the factories?

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

14. How 'bout handcuffs around the wrists of the executives?

In prison, they can create many jobs, albeit not in the usual sense of the word!

[TexasTowelie]

24. Now, now, we don't say such things on DU,

but you have carte blanche to think it and type it.

Welcome to DU!

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

48. THANK YOU!!!

I see you are truly a free-speech Democrat, which is good, as I've already encountered a couple of hall monitors here!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

15. Some modern art installations

consisting of dozens of pikes would make a statement.

[bkanderson76]

16. Last Week They Were Jumping Off....This Week They Are Just "Falling" Off....hmmm

[Earth_First]

17. Bankers with chronic inner ear problems should probably not practice rooftop banking. n/t

[tosh]

19. Stop it....

that was funny and I was trying so hard to be serious...

[The Wizard]

18. The banking cartels are being investigated

for the biggest theft in History. The question is: Are these potential witnesses to the crimes?

[Earth_First]

20. It's almost as though a 'hit list' is being executed...

Dead men don't talk.

Although I digress. Discussion of this sort is liable to have this whisked away to 'Creative Speculation'.

[Ilsa]

25. The witnesses and executors are being knocked off;

the planners and executives will be insulated and get away with it.

[southerncrone]

32. Yep. If they think this isn't raising eyebrows, they are mistaken.

[TBF]

38. I don't think they care whether

they raise eyebrows. Clearly there is something to hide. Usually this type of thing seems to be handled with small plane crashes - but evidently considering the numbers they had to come up with an easier method this time.

[2naSalit]

44. That and the fact taht

these guys are pretty spread out on different continents.

I smell a connecting of dots.. to mix metaphors of a sort.

I suspect that these are witnesses who either were about to spill the beans or have been found out about doing so. Whitleblowers don't get much respect.

[TBF]

51. Potential whistleblowers -

good point. That could easily be the case. We've seen what has happened with Assange and Snowden.

[2naSalit]

54. Absolutely

And it's not like there's any place they can go to be safe most anywhere on the planet now. There's definitely a "cleansing" going on.

[southerncrone]

55. They certainly don't care. But it proves their hubris, or fear,

to "suicide" so many within such a short time frame. Agree that anyone who might be perceived as a loose cannon would have to go. Or there were just too many "men who knew too much" & silence is golden. Quite risky to think no one would notice.
Whatever is being protected, it must be BIG!

[Wolf Frankula]

21. Frankly I'm Delighted by the Death Rate Among Banksters

I'm willing, (for a modest fee) to load the pistols, mix the poisons and tie the nooses myself.
There are too many banksters, they waste too much oxygen, and I'm glad to see them culling themselves

Wolf

[TBF]

31. What you are seeing is

culling of the workers, albeit high-paid workers, while the boys at the top get away with whatever they did. And you're applauding that? Why?

[Veilex]

22. I'm waiting for

some executive officers to start to "fall" off rooftops.

[hotdamn00]

23. It's raining men.

[eggplant]

36. FTW.

Welcome!

[hotdamn00]

50. Thanks.

I've been lurking forever, though.

[jberryhill]

26. "the dead man worked at the bank"

How did a dead man work at the bank?

Sooner or later these "writers" should start killing themselves in shame.

[Turbineguy]

27. Article from Bloomberg on FX traders:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-18/fx-traders-facing-extinction-as-computers-replace-humans.html

[eggplant]

34. It will greatly disturb me to find out that a computer pushed him off the roof.

[NastyRiffraff]

28. Weird

Normally I'm very skeptical of "conspiracies" but this is getting very strange. I'm still skeptical, but this many in a couple of weeks is suspicious to say the least.

[TygrBright]

29. Seems like a helluva mortality rate among young, healthy bankers lately. n/t

[TBF]

30. Bankers sure are clumsy -

how many is this now?

[eggplant]

35. It's starting to sound like the ever updating list of #2 al queda leaders

[2naSalit]

45. With this newest guy in Hong Kong

makes seven plus the missing journalist.

7+1.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. For some reason...

"It's Raining Men" is now stuck in my head.

[DeSwiss]

39. These are the ones whose fingerprints are all over the crimes......

...but the masterminds remain covered in their holes.

- K&R

[frwrfpos]

40. The deceased dont squeal

dead means no testimony. Look at the police investigating these "incidents" first. Look who benefits from these "incidents" as well. Name names. Shine the light brightly

[medeak]

46. Wall Street journalist investigating was first to go missing

don't know the truth of this link but there are other timelines online:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/61200

[Hekate]

49. Jeez! How many is this now?!

Hey, bankers -- if you think you know something of interest to the Feds, would you please drop it in a public post box now? Under the circumstances, personally I wouldn't use either email or a safety deposit box in a bank.

And stay off roofs and balconies.

[yurbud]

53. JPMorgan Has Been Patenting DEATH DERIVATIVES (LINK)

Remember the terror market the Bushies proposed?

This is it's spiritual cousin.

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/as-bank-deaths-continue-to-shock-documents-reveal-jpmorgan-has-been-patenting-death-derivatives/