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'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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What would be the point of killing someone to silence them after they already spoke? The timing makes no sense.

It was only the first part, he hadn't really given much yet.

Killing him after the first part tells everyone else that if they're thinking of doing the same they'll be killed, if they had "suicided" him before people could have though he did actually killed himself.

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Well, how do you take down some blog, if there is no legal base for it, because all the content was obvious legal? We will never know the answer because the chief communication officer choose to contact the security department instead of the legal department.

Actually....he did contact the legal department too. Court documents show eBay's Chief Legal Officer Marie Oh Huber was copied on the infamous Whatever It Takes email from Chief Communications Officer Steve Wymer wherein he referred to the twitter user Fidomaster/unsuckeBay (a frequent commenter and source for the blog) and the owners of the blog and said: "I am utterly vexed by this! This twitter account dominates o…

I’m hoping that means that she didn’t know what Jim Baugh was up to and that putting security under legal was intended to rein them in. Call me naïve but I can’t imagine that the eBay board is happy that this happened, though I do find it ridiculous that the CEO and other executives involved weren’t fired. There should be legal penalties preventing someone from leading a major corporation after being responsible for something like this. Attorneys can be disbarred so why not CEOs?

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

All joking aside, was there anything in the Epstein case to indicate foul play or is it just a meme? I can't find anything reputable.

> is there anything in the Epstein case to indicate foul play We have no evidence. It is more that Epstein knew a lot of bad things about some of the most powerful people in the country. It makes sense that they would have wanted him killed, or even that they would have wanted to fake his death to make the court case go away. People who would kill to save themselves would be just as likely to kill a drifter and give…

There is still an argument to be made for him having killed himself.

He was facing inevitable life in prison while branded as a pedophile.

Frankly, offing himself to avoid that was the most logical move.

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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I feel like when there is financial malfeasance, we find enough cases of it in the wild to document that it has really happened. Whether it's Enron, or stories of lobbyists and politicians acting in self interest in ways that break the law, or even just municipal officials embezzling, we have known cases of that. So if you ever have the feeling that big financial transactions might be ethically questionable, you can…

Tommy Chui, cigarette smuggling.

[1]: https://www.icij.org/investigations/big-tobacco-smuggling/ba...

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