Show me the corpse!
Police are investigating evidence suggesting that, rather than showing up for his 20 years as a guest of the US government, Bayou founder Scammy Israel III today threw himself into the Hudson River at Bear Mountain, near West Point.
I won't believe it until they pull his bloated corpse out of the river...my betting is, and always has been, that his family's resources and relationships would guarantee he never made his appointment with The Big House; when the time came he would, as he seems to have done, quietly disappear. And if I had the faintest interest in tracking Israel down, I'd start looking under the desks at the Futures Industry Authority. But that's just me.
Police Investigating Possible Suicide by Hedge Fund Cheat
by Richard Esposito
AP Jun. 9 2008
Your instincts were right. There's no body, there's no eyewitness of a jump, no surveilance camera footage of a jump, and the authorities are being pretty clear that they -- although anything is still possible -- they aren't putting all their investigational eggs in the "suicide" basket.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/16558884/detail.html
Posted by: Christopher | June 10, 2008 at 19:47
They will never find the corpse. Remember that Sam had sole personal control of $120,000,000 for 18 months. He sent $120,000,000 back to Bayou. Do you believe he didn't have money squirreled away somewhere?
Posted by: Friend of Dan's. | June 09, 2008 at 18:33