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Rockefeller & Co's CEO committed suicide: report
James McDonald, chief executive officer of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co, committed suicide on Sunday in Massachusetts, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
According to the paper, Barclay McFadden, who identified himself as a friend of McDonald's family, said James McDonald "took his own life." McDonald was also a board member of NYSE Euronext.
No one at Rockefeller & Co was immediately available for comment.
The paper said McDonald is believed to have died in New Bedford but the circumstances surrounding his death were unclear.
Rockefeller & Co's chief operating officer and chief financial officer, Austin Shapard, has assumed day-to-day leadership of the investment firm, the Journal said, citing company spokesman Joseph Kuo.
The firm, which started off as a New York family office established by John D. Rockefeller, was incorporated in 1979 and became an investment adviser in 1980, according to the company's website. (Reporting by Santosh Nadgir in Bangalore; Editing by Greg Mahlich) http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58E1BV20090915?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
James S. McDonald, head of investment-management firm Rockefeller & Co. and a board member of NYSE Euronext, died on Sunday in Massachusetts, according to people familiar with the matter. He was 56 years old.
In a statement Monday night, Barclay McFadden III, who identified himself as a friend of Mr. McDonald’s family, said he “took his own life.” The family has “no further comments beyond this,” the statement added.
Jim McDonald was an exceptional individual who provided strong leadership of Rockefeller & Co. for over eight years,” Colin Campbell, Rockefeller & Co. chairman, said in a statement on Monday. “He will be missed by all of us privileged to have known and worked with him.” (Wall Street Journal, 9.15.2009, Craig Karmin) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125297114071610275.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Ed note: It is a high probability that someone in the rottenfeller crime family had him killed.
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