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Crane was an Executive Director in JPM's Global Program Trading desk based in New York and had been with the firm for 14 years.
Few details have been released concerning the nature of his death, with reports merely stating that Crane is survived by his wife and son.
"We can only hope this disturbing chain of deaths within the financial industry - one of which involved a nail-gun induced suicide - is purely accidental," writes Zero Hedge.
Some have speculated that the deaths could be a precursor to a major financial collapse, although no hard evidence of a connection has been forthcoming.
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.
A few days later, Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police described as a suicide. Dueker was reported missing on January 29 by friends, who said he had been "having problems at work."
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."
Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead last week after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
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.
Reader Comments
Could be purging the weak links/loose lips as you say. Could be actual "I know whats coming and I cant live with that.". Could be Joe Average dispensing some equality. Tough to say, but it has been forecasted many times that our financial paradigm is near its max. With that recent 'USA may default' thing that got avoided...that was a wake up call. One thing is certain, its best to have some basic skills if things fall apart.
If this had happened to a Joe Average, the police would be suspecting murder.
These deaths... are interesting. So: money and to be a accomplice of all this mess because of bankers is no good for your health. Maybe a new virus that is against these vampires of our planet?
Are they killing themselves because the pression is too hard? Because they wanted to stop to be in the game? because they are seeing that what is coming is no beautiful no for the banks nor for the rest of the planet? Or are they pushed through the window?
Either the mob or the yakuza are pissed! These all look like professional "hits."
Banker Suicides: The JPMorgan-CIA-NYPD connection
Exposing what lies beneath the bodies of dead bankers and what lies ahead for us
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I feel that this is one of the most important investigations I’ve ever done. If my findings are correct, each of us might soon experience a severe, if not crippling blow to our personal finances, the confiscation of any wealth some of us have been able to accumulate over our lifetimes, and the end of the financial world as we once knew it. The evidence to support my findings exists in the trail of dead bodies of financial executives across the globe and a missing Wall Street Journal Reporter who was working at the Dow Jones news room at the time of his disappearance.
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Although the trail of mysterious and bizarre deaths detailed below begin in late January, 2014, there are others. Not only that, there will be more, according to sources within the financial world. Based on my findings, these are not mere random, tragic cases of suicide, but of the methodical silencing of individuals who had the ability to expose financial fraud at the highest levels, and the complicity of certain governmental agencies and individuals who are engaged in the greatest theft of wealth the world has ever seen.