Another Financial Industry Death – Kenneth Bellando Found Dead After Six Story Fall
Ulsterman
2014 has not been a kind year so far for the financial industry as several prominent members of the financial world have taken their own lives – most by falling to their deaths. Here is a brief description of those deaths so far:
(via New York Post)
MARCH 12: Kenneth Bellando, 28, an investment banker at Levy Capital, was found dead on the sidewalk outside his building on Manhattan’s East Side, after allegedly jumping from the sixth-story roof, sources said
MARCH 11: Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, jumped in front of an LIRR train near the Syosset, NY, train station
FEB. 28: Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a cyber-currency exchange firm, was found dead outside her Singapore apartment. The 28-year-old American jumped from a 25-story building, authorities said.
EB. 18: Li Junjie, a 33-year-old JPMorgan finance pro, leaped to his death from the roof of the company’s 30-story Hong Kong office tower, authorities said.
FEB. 3: Ryan Henry Crane, 37, a JPMorgan executive director who worked in New York, was found dead inside his Stamford, Conn., home. A cause of death in Crane’s case has yet to be determined as authorities await a toxicology report, a spokesperson for the Stamford Police Department said.
JAN. 31: Mike Dueker, 50, chief economist at Russell Investments and a former Federal Reserve bank economist, was found dead at the side of a road that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state after jumping a fence and falling down an embankment, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
JAN. 28: Gabriel Magee, 39, a vice president with JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank technology arm in the UK, jumped to his death from the roof of the bank’s 33-story Canary Wharf tower in London.
JAN. 26: William Broeksmit, 58, a former senior risk manager at Deutsche Bank, was found hanged in a house in South Kensington, according to London police. LINK
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This death toll has certainly entered the realm of the eerie and ominous. Jumping is a rather rare form of suicide, and yet, for the eight mentioned above, who join another group of similar deaths in 2013, jumping seems to be the most common form of doing so.
Or were they pushed, either literally, or figuratively, to the point where life no longer seemed an option to them?
What would make so many working within the same industry, kill themselves like this?
What did they know? What did they fear?
It seems at this time, so many of us have so many more questions than answers, and I have a hunch, that is no simple accident…
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