Comments on: Fugitive Financier Caught

By: jordan

jordan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:40:21 +0000

Yeah, what pisses me off about this story is that the plane crashed 200 yards away from houses. This bastard could have killed innocent civilians. He should get a stiffer penalty for that then for his white collar crimes.

By: Andrew LeBlanc

Andrew LeBlanc — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:31:12 +0000

He didn’t even plan his faked death all that well, to be fair. He called the authorities to let them know that his front window had shattered and he was going down, and then bailed out of the plane while it was on autopilot with a decent amount of fuel. Fighter pilots saw his freaking plane with an open door and none of the damage he reported, coasting like a ghost in the sky on autopilot.

His plan would have been a lot better if he didn’t radio in anything, and had left a minimal amount of fuel in the plane to keep it in the air after bailing.

And, I don’t know, set the plane up to crash somewhere where people wouldn’t find it for a while.

Like the ocean.

By: jordan

jordan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:15:25 +0000

That was an extremely sad story Steven. Lot of pundits had egg on their face.

Richard, I think you’re right that he expended all his “plan energy” on faking his death, and left nothing for his post mortem.

By: Richard H. Fay

Richard H. Fay — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:56:48 +0000

Um, did he maybe not have a clear plan AFTER he faked his death? Or is it just another example of what often happens to best laid plans?

By: Steven Smethurst

Steven Smethurst — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:01:45 +0000

Reminded me of this story
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1259238

When he first excepted he was the but of endless, spam jokes only to be found 3 days later in a murder-suicide with his wife and child.