anyone else thinking these suicides not so coincidental?

There was also a piece on abovethelaw about a high-profile corporate attorney who kicked her kids out of the car and drove off because she was tired of their arguing.

Stress can do horrible things to people, mentally and physically.

Stress in the workplace:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE53L0SV20090422?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10504&sp=true

It's all just so creepy & horrible

no what i mean is,is it possible that some scandal of some sort's about to reveal itself and these two people were both involved... one's a real estate attorney who happened to be in maryland and the other's a c-level fannie may exec from fairfax..

He probably posted on streeteasy.

As spunky?

Dark thought there steve. i'm laughing, nervously.

weird coincidence of my own. whenever i give a good old friendly shout out to Spunky, a new handle (or early on 2 or 3), comes on to insult me and then leaves almost immediately. i'm beginning to enjoy conspiracy thoughts.

Conspiracies are great fun. I love good fiction.

I don't know about the re lawyer in Maryland but the Freddie suicide definitely makes me think something bad is about to pop. I mean the guy got an $800k bonus last year, he was young, he had his family....if it was just some personal issue....wunless there was an underlying emotional illness, he still had a nice life to fall back on.

I think we are gonna hear something really really bad connected to Freddie sometime soon. But I really expect the worst out of all this, I think the US economy is not going to recover for a long long time....that's just me.

"I think we are gonna hear something really really bad connected to Freddie sometime soon"

like he bought his own house with a jumbo adjustable rate mortgage?

However, it is sad about the families! I didn't mean to be callous.

hey, i read that inspectors of the IRS cheat more on their taxes than the general public. this in my mind is somehow similar to RE brokers walking away from the great investment that housing is supposed to be. similar in the sense that's unexpected, ironic, not supposed to happen.

maybe this guy stopped believing in housing all of a sudden, even though his career was dedicated to that housing. maybe he wanted to walk away from his mtg... in a way, sometimes the ones that kill themselves are the nice guys that have some sense of accountability. like the investor in madoff that killed himself but madoff maybe never even thought about doing that himself.

GG, i'm inclined at this moment to give Freddie and Fannie a free pass, except for perhaps the bonuses. The US government mandated them to increase their exposure tremendously as a way of getting money into the system without Congress actively approving it. Of course Frannie will fail, it's been set up to.

admin, good theory, but it looks like this guy was a crook ;-)

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-limont2212679223apr21,0,6976744.story

you wanna off yourself - fine - but why did he have to take out his wife and daughters. what a d-bag.

See what happens when Freddie execs internalize this stress rather than blowing off steam at stripclubs?

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/6280/

that was a l&o episode

I don't think you can get away with faking a hanging, and the Freddie Mac guy hung himself. There would be signs of a struggle if he were conscious, or drugs in his system if he were not, I think. I mean, I'm no detective or anything, but it seems like one of the more difficult ways to frame a murder.

you don't die quickly when you hang yourself...my uncle killed himself that way after his wife of 30+ years left him and when he was found he was still alive but died right after...it's a tough way to go.

i think that was too much information i just posted...ignore it if you can.