Real Estate Executive Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

[antigop]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Real-estate executive Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago, said the Kane County Sheriff's Department.

Mr. Good, 52 years old, was chief executive of Sheldon Good & Co., one of the nation's largest real-estate auction firms. His father had founded the company in 1965. Whether the apparent suicide had any connection to the business is unclear. Real-estate auction companies can do well in downturns.

As chairman of the Realtors Commercial Alliance Committee, Mr. Good said last month in an industry outlook press release that market conditions were "very challenging."

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123127267562558295.html

[Donnachaidh]

1. and so it begins

This one, the German millionaire found today(?) -- wonder if anyone is watching the windows on Wall Street yet?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. The French investor in New York who

slashed his wrists in his office just before Christmas, Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet.

We'll see more and more.

The windows in those Wall Street buildings don't open. Almost impossible to break, too.

[KamaAina]

8. And the German tycoon who just threw himself in front of a train

more to come, I'm sure. :(

[Generator]

20. What got me about that guy

was he was German and named ADOLF! Born during Hitler's reign. Apparently he made a success of his life anyway? Why kill yourself now-maybe it was the name-I thought no one was ever named that after Hitler and those that were changed their names?

[gratuitous]

3. Turn out the lights, the party's over

I don't know how many of these we're going to see, or even if there will be one simple explanation for this or any other suicides of formerly high-flying moguls. But I can't escape the feeling in my own heart that the kids have had their big, blow-out, trash-the-parents'-house party, it's 7 p.m. Sunday, and Mom and Dad just phoned from the airport that they're grabbing a taxi and coming home. And the trig mid-term is tomorrow morning, and sonny boy hasn't even cracked his book open. And maybe he didn't pull out of Sally Sue in time. And Sally Sue's boyfriend, the ultimate fighting trainee, is the jealous type, and Sally Sue likes to blab and see her boyfriend beat other guys into guava jelly.

[mcjackson]

4. crazy...

...we photographed this guy a couple months ago for the magazine i work for. had drinks with him after. pretty weird......

[Sequoia]

6. Did he seem upbeat to you or a little down?

That's pretty sad.

[mcjackson]

7. he seemed pretty upbeat...

...but he always was, he lived pretty hard from what i gathered.

[grytpype]

5. This is the third million/billionaire suicide in two weeks.

And three of anything means a trend.

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[Donnachaidh]

10. and we probably won't hear of the other poor people who just use a handgun to air out their brains

Or overdose on a medicine cabinet of pills, etc.

I could care less for the millionaires. But even in death they get more notice than the average guy who has lost their homes and their livelihoods because of these rich motherfuckers and their hedge funds.

[tabasco]

11. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzz z z z . . .

:boring:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. Two were foreign,

and how do you know the political affiliation of the man in Illinois?

Your post might be the dumbest thing I've seen on DU. That kind of ugliness is disgusting.

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[Baby Snooks]

15. Hope the next one takes you with them...

I think you need to read your post again. That's pretty sick. There are lots of Democrats in the same boat. Along with lots of Republicans. Nice, normal, Americans who worked all their lives trusted that they would have nice retirements. Will you rejoice when they start committing suicide as well? Hopefully one will thrown themselves in front of a bus and decide to take you with them. You are disgusting.

[ret5hd]

16. Hope you never "Nurse Practitioner" near me.

[Ohio Joe]

19. Disgusting

Cheering suicides? Just fucking sick.

[killbotfactory]

21. Don't feed the troll. eom

[olddad56]

13. maybe these guys are killing themselves becuase the have broken hearts..

it is a tough time for people in love with their money.

[Dappleganger]

14. Some people would rather be dead than poor. *shrugs*

[Generator]

17. Braggart

I'd have to off myself in my '99 Corolla. Always wanted a Jag.

[bemildred]

18. Did he use ratshot? nt

[provis99]

22. a Jaguar?

You don't kill yourself in a Jaguar! You kill yourself in a shitty Ford LTD like I have!

[Sultana]

23. Selfish

Killing themselves because they are no longer as rich as b4... Once again I have no sympathy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. Real Estate mogul Steven Good found dead in apparent suicide

Source: Daily Contributor

An executive of a large US real estate company was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago. A maintenance worker discovered the body of Steven L. Good, 52, behind the wheel of his Jaguar parked in a lot at the McGraw Wildlife Refuge near East Dundee, authorities said.

Good, chairman and CEO of Sheldon Good & Co. Auctions International LLC was a major figure in Chicago real estate. There was no letter found in his car indicating a motive and it was uncertain whether his death was connected to his job.

According to the company’s Web site, Sheldon Good “has sold more than 45,000 U.S. and international properties in more than 100 different classes and produced more than $10 billion in sales.”

Read more: http://dailycontributor.com/200901062783/real-estate-mogul-steven-good-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide/

[doc03]

25. Wow these rich cats can't cope with losing a little

money. We had the German billionaire that threw himself in front of a train and the other one caught up in the Madoff scam.

[jgraz]

26. Maybe we should enact a temporary 100% tax bracket

That should thin the herd a bit.

[undeterred]

27. I guess he didn't want to live in his Jaguar.

:shrug:

[tridim]

28. Does the "Death Tax" apply in suicide cases?

[cliffordu]

29. Well.....

:rofl:

[JBear]

45. There is no death tax in 2009...

Remember the "tax cuts?" They sunsetted the estate tax for 2009 only. Interesting that this stuff has started. I am not so sure that we won't see a lot of rich types "suicide" themselves.

:(

[tridim]

50. So basically if you steal lots of money and then commit suicide..

Your family gets all of it tax free?

Sounds like we need to revisit this issue asap. Otherwise these ultra-rich criminals are stealing the money TWICE and getting away with it.

[Endangered Specie]

30. I guess the police will write it up as a "Good shoot"

:evilgrin:

[specimenfred1984]

31. Sounds like a good deal on a Jag

After the quick clean up of some cowardly repuke brains.

[Stephanie]

32. Is it 1929 yet?

"Merckle was the 94th richest person in the world with a net worth of about $9.2 billion. But his poor investment decisions in Volkswagen shares pushed his business empire to the brink of disaster."

Um, most of us are on the brink of disaster right now. Toughen up.

[doc03]

33. They tell us to pull ourselves up by

the bootstraps but they kill themselves. Let's hope Madoff blows his f---ing brains out.

[aquart]

37. Lotta people would load the gun for him.

But others want him in the cell with Bubba. It's a real debate, I tell you.

[Waiting For Everyman]

47. Exactly. Where were HIS bootstraps?

I guess he was just one of those irresponsible, deadbeat, morally weak, poor people in disguise, who deserves no sympathy or compensation for their losses and misery which he profited from.

So say the self-serving fictions people like him propagate to justify their thefts from all of us.

I hope that 10 seconds after he did this, he found out there really is a God.

[LiberalHeart]

34. I'm having trouble thinking of a joke about suicide.

[aquart]

39. It's not funny.

But we're angry enough to take a moment of savage pleasure at the downfall of the rich. The real horror is yet to come. When the working families die together because they have no hope.

I read a book about the year 1000 AD. It mentioned terrible famines in the previous years where sixty or seventy people would join hands and jump off a cliff rather than starve slowly.

Our economy has failed at the moment our climate is changing. Unless we do everything right, it could be worse than we have ever known.

[Eurobabe]

35. Dropping like flies, a German billionaire commited suicide yesterday too

Adolf Merckle.

"In December, German billionaire Adolf Merckle gave a rare interview to defend his failing investment strategy.

“We are now lumped together with hedge funds, while in fact it was a growth strategy that allowed us to fund companies that are fundamentally healthy,” he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “I have already overcome many of these so-called market crashes, but I could not have anticipated a financial and banking crisis of this size.”

On Jan. 5, Merckle threw himself under a train near the southern German town of Blaubeuren, where in 2005 he lived in a flat-roofed bungalow with a nameplate outside. The suicide was confirmed by a statement from his family, for whom Merckle left a note. A man who answered the family’s home phone number declined to comment further."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=a..XcSgM0fuM&refer=germany

[radfringe]

46. and there was that other guy

who slit his wrists in his office a week or so ago...

I expecting to see more than a few tinfoil hats adorning heads soon....

[byronius]

36. Live only for money...

I've got the Crash Blues right now myself, in a big way. But it's not the end-all-be-all. Yeah, I'm worried about my kids. But every day I get to see their faces, every single day I can walk outside and look up at the sky and know it's full of stars behind those clouds, and that we might get to go exploring there one day, and every day I can still afford to feed those two homeless cats behind my building (I built 'em a hidden heated shelter) is a damn good day.

Anyone contemplating suicide over this foofaraw should read Barbara Tuchman's 'A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century'.

The 14th Century Dick Cheneys burn people alive on every other page, with lots of entrail pulling and gang-rape to boot. The Black Death killed ONE THIRD OF THE HUMAN POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH in a ten year period, for Pete's Sake.

This just isn't that bad. Modern Wimps, these Blue-Chippers. State of mind.

Jeez.

I once considered suicide, over a failed three-day marriage. Lived in a van for a year with my dog.

Chickened out. Found beauty in simply living. Lived.

These guys need to watch 'Harold and Maude' in the worst way.

[heliarc]

40. Well said. nt

[asteroid2003QQ47]

41. 'Harold and Maude' and Trailer Park Boys! :-) n/t

[billyoc]

38. What

a pussy.

[happygoluckytoyou]

42. CLASS WARFARE IS ON ! ! ! Let the redistribution of wealth begin ! ! !

and .... oh yeah... condolences to the family...

got to be a sad moment when you are down to your last hundred million dollars....
day-old caviar
have to empty the ashtray in your car twice before selling it
oh the humanity of it all

[Arctic Dave]

43. I guess when you have ate, slept and lived for Ayn Rand and her

philosophy, you are seeing your entire existence crumbling before your eyes. I can't say I'm too unhappy about their actions.

[IMPERIUM V]

44. How much land does a man need?

Six feet from his head to his heels is all he needs.

[lelgt60]

48. And in the same day, how many poor people committed suicide?

I don't know, but I suspect this economy causes more poor/middle class to commit suicide than the rich. It's just that it's not news.

[Buns_of_Fire]

49. Condolences to his family. That said, it was more entertaining...

when they'd jump out their office windows, a la 1929 -- or were they pushed? In the case of people like Madoff, my money will be on pushed.

Welcome to our world, oh ye "Captains of Industry."