Another JP Morgan Banker Leaps to His Death

(Info Wars) — Yet another banker has committed suicide, with a JP Morgan forex trader leaping to his death from the top of the firm’s Chater House headquarters in Hong Kong.

Image: Man pictured before his suicide (SCMP).

Over the past few weeks at least seven bankers have died under mysterious circumstances, including another JP Morgan senior manager who jumped off the top of a skyscraper in London last month.

Speculation is rife that the series of deaths are connected to some kind of looming financial crisis or a huge legal case targeting bankers for malfeasance, although no definite link has been established.

Eyewitnesses said that the man, who was in his 30′s, accessed the roof of the 30 story office tower and jumped, with police on the scene failing to talk him out of committing suicide. Chater House is JP Morgan’s main regional Asian office.

“According to several JP Morgan employees, the man was a forex trader with the company,” reports the South China Morning Post, adding that his name was Li Junjie. The bank itself refused to confirm that the man was an employee.

Junjie becomes the 7th banker to suddenly die in recent weeks. Questions as to whether the deaths are merely a coincidence or are linked to some as yet unknown factor continue to swirl.

– On January 26, former Deutsche Bank executive Broeksmit was found dead at his South Kensington home after police responded to reports of a man found hanging at a house. According to reports, Broeksmit had “close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain.”

– Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old senior manager at JP Morgan’s European headquarters, jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London on January 27, landing on an adjacent 9 story roof.

– Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, fell down a 50 foot embankment in what police are describing as a suicide. He was reported missing on January 29 by friends, who said he had been “having problems at work.”

– Richard Talley, 57, founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was also found dead earlier this month after apparentlyshooting himself with a nail gun.

– 37-year-old JP Morgan executive director Ryan Henry Crane died last week.

– Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, although the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

(H/T Info Wars]

Report: Suicide Among 18-29 Year Old Veterans Has Increased 44%, 18 Veterans End Their Life Every Day

(Examiner) — A new analysis shows that suicide rates among veterans aged 18-29 is on the rise There’s been a 44 percent increase from 2009 to 2011. The statistics also show there has been a drop in the suicide rate among older veterans aged 35 to 64.

In 2009, 88 younger veterans took their own lives in 2011. Within three years that number jumped to 152. This means a 44 percent rise in the suicide rate, which jumped to 57.9 suicides per 100,000 veterans.

Experts can’t explain why the surge of suicides among younger veterans. The rise occurred at a time while the Department of Veterans Affairs were increasing their suicide prevention efforts.

The L.A. Times reports, “One possibility is that those efforts have been successful in drawing more suicidal young veterans to the VA for care, but that many still wind up killing themselves.”

A suicide expert, Timothy Lineberry, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. said, “if you have more people at risk, the rates are going to change.” Lineberry was not part of the government analysis.

The increase in the suicide rate among younger veterans is being called “alarming.” One reason is that younger vets are said to be more reluctant in seeking mental health treatment.

The Good Man Project says, “an estimated 600,000 suffer from mental health conditions. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs say that 11-20 percent of these service members experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD),”

It’s said on average 18 veterans reach the point of being unable to go on and take their own lives. In 2012, 182 vets killed themselves compared to 176 being killed in combat and there’s another 110 reported suicides under investigation.

Is the VA really doing enough for our veterans who might have mental health needs? The VA only meets it goal in being able to fully evaluate veterans, within 14 days, 49 percent of the time. The other 51 percent have to wait on average 50 days before having a full evaluation.

When seconds and minutes count—as they do in combat—the VA did not meet its own standard, according to the Vantage Point website.

After more than a decade of war, there’s a rising need for mental health services for veterans. After veterans return home too often they are essentially discarded and forgotten and it should not be that way. Our veterans should be taken care of and made sure they have what they need to transition back into society.

If you would like to receive automatic notifications when new articles from the Marine Corps Examiner when they are published please consider subscribing by clicking the blue subscribe link under the photo that accompanies this article, (note that photo is near the top of this article, near the photo of the Marine Corps Examiner).

If you would like to read more articles from the Dothan Marine Corps Examiner you can go here.

[H/T LA Times]