Posted on 08/22/2002 11:59:55 AM PDT by ArcLight
Please. The voice of reason has no place here. These goofs simply want to speculate that since this guy knew how to spell Enron, he must have been offed. There is still speculation by these people that the Houston suicide late last year was suspicious (it was pretty well proven a suicide).
I wish I had the time on my hands these people do to come up with ludicrous scenarios. Folks: unless you have some hard evidence (i.e. an eyewitness, an overheard conversation, a phone tap, etc.) and not loony speculation (the guy knew some stuff on Enron so he must have been silenced), call it what it was, a suicide, and go on to more important things.
He could be next. Enron paid him $100,000 to work as an "advisor."
Give me a break. Peggy Noonan was on their payroll too. Do you expect her to take a header? And Paul Krugman and Larry Kudlow were good for $50 grand from Lay.
Your theory on this thread has been highly speculative at best. Maybe you ought to get some facts to back it up before continuing to fan the flames of a very damaging rumor, dragging other ideological foes of yours in as it suits you.
Remember Enron Vice Chairman J. Clifford Baxter found shot to death in his 2002 Mercedes Benz ??
Peggy Noonan was paid to write a speech for Enron. That is not the same as the relationship the other 4 journalist had with the company .
Did make an error above. Fastow's assets, not Skilling's, were frozen by the Feds less than 24 hours before Myerson killed himself.
Mentioning Kristol and bungie cords was meant as gallows humor. He was stupid, or rather arrogant, to take $100,000 from Enron.
Seems to me he wanted to make a point to everyone at the New York Times. Maybe he was just that kind of guy. Or maybe something connected to his work led him to his death.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/46824.htm
TIMES EDITOR IN DEATH PLUNGE
By KEITH J. KELLY and WILLIAM J. GORTA
> "August 23, 2002 -- A New York Times business editor suffering from financial and marital difficulties jumped to his death from the newspaper's landmark building in Times Square yesterday, police said.
Allen Myerson, 47, scribbled out a note at his desk in the third-floor newsroom before slamming down his pen and asking a colleague which floor the roof was on, sources told The Post.
Police said Myerson, who worked at the newspaper since 1989, leaped from the 16th floor shortly before 10 a.m. and landed on the third-floor roof of a parking garage next door.
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. sent an e-mail to his staff, informing them of Myerson's death.
"As with any family, we're called on to endure our share of tragedies," Sulzberger wrote. "This is one of those times and our support for one another will help all of us get through it."
Times Editor Howell Raines declined to speak with reporters.
Myerson, who edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing: The Experts' Guide to Prospering in a Changing Economy," was said to be in reduced financial straits. He and his wife, Carol Marie Cropper, recently sold their home in tony Montclair, N.J., and moved to smaller digs in Glen Ridge, according to sources at The Times.
Colleagues also said Myerson, the assistant business editor for weekends, would ask to see the real-estate classified ads before they were made public because he intended to move to Manhattan - to split from his wife.
Myerson had lost weight recently, colleagues said, and had begun a physical-fitness regimen.
Police said Myerson's note - written on lined yellow paper - requested his possessions be distributed among his relatives, but made no provision for his wife, the personal finance editor at BusinessWeek. Carol Cropper did not return calls for comment.
Before coming to the Times, Myerson worked for the Lexington Herald-Leader and Dallas Morning News.
His death was the second suicide by a member of the Times business section in less than three years.
Agis Salpukas, 60, was found floating in the Hudson River in January 2000 after jumping off the George Washington Bridge.
Salpukas was being treated for depression at the New York Psychiatric Center before he plunged to his death wearing a hospital gown."
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Murray Weiss
Myerson, who edited "The New Rules of Personal Investing: The Experts' Guide to Prospering in a Changing Economy," was said to be in reduced financial straits....
Police said Myerson's note - written on lined yellow paper - requested his possessions be distributed among his relatives, but made no provision for his wife, the personal finance editor at BusinessWeek. Carol Cropper did not return calls for comment.
My mistake. What was I thinking?
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8793/
Justice for Allen
By Lisa DePaulo
Published Jun 9, 2003
...they knew the five-year hell of fertility treatments the couple, both 47, had gone through in their attempt to conceive. On July 5, they’d tried one last time, and, miraculously, it took... Later, on the way out to the parking lot, the wives were walking ahead, and Kevin Buckley turned to his friend. “Allen, you’re a little quiet,” he said. “That’s because I’m getting a divorce,” Allen replied... his sisters... are embroiled in a breathtakingly aggressive and unprecedented lawsuit against Carol Myerson over Allen’s estate... about $150,000 in probatable assets... Allen’s $100,000 Times life-insurance... his $230,000 Times 401(k), the proceeds from the sale of the dream house, and the couple’s car, worth $2,000... the menorah Allen got when he was 5, the $441 in cash he had in his wallet, and who will get his Harvard diploma.
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