FBI accused of driving witness in Enron case to his death

[undergroundpanther]

A WITNESS in the Enron fraud case was found dead yesterday in an apparent suicide, adding to the controversy surrounding the extradition of three former NatWest employees to the US to face charges.
Neil Coulbeck, a former head of group treasury at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) who had given evidence to the FBI about the case, disappeared from his home in Woodford Green, east London, last Thursday.


http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/65865.html

Fishy fishy stuff..How all these people who could rat out enron are just dying off..

[sweetheart]

1. They worshipped at the money trough

Some animals come for food, when you put it out, and enron had money hanging
everywhere, free money from the heist, just help us bank it... and so the bankers
are come to stress, for being bankers and not asking questions or whistle blowing,
things that no reputable banker would do on a client, given confidentiality,
goodwill and privacy.

But they are just regular people who got greedy, hungry for food, feeding the full
belly feeling of more and more money, more and more sycophantic powers accumulated,
merit badges and kissass peerages, oh the money trough feeds any pain, just buy a new
one, a new marriage, a new kid, a new country, its all about money after all,
just as long as i can get cheap shit at walmart. The new constitution:

Citizenz(tm) have the right to consume, the more you consume, the better you are.
...
and of course people are worshipping at the money trough, sucking it up greedily
with it dripping from their lips, paying for medical care, security protection, transportation,
and education, legitimizing the privatization of human goodwill and its literal deconstruction,
would that it be limited to simply postmodern deconstruction of simulacra.

[monarch]

2. Nice analysis! n/t

[annabanana]

3. He committed suicide in the park?

Sadly, the article gives no details. It still categorizes the death as "unexplained".

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Rabid right wing lawyers drove Clinton mad and took away much

of the potential effectivness of his presidency. One affects an individual. The other affected an entire nation.

[elehhhhna]

6. Yes, and the FBI drove him there ina gov't car. Headline says so!

[deminks]

5. Shades of David Kelly...

and a host of others. How many suicides in the park or off busy bridges are going to be allowed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly

[warrior1]

7. stuff

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1174336.ece



THE body of a Woodford Green banker who had been questioned by the FBI over a multi-million pound fraud has been found on a golf course.

Father-of-two Neil Coulbeck, 53, had been quizzed over the selling-off of parts of NatWest bank's Enron unit.

He went missing on Thursday (6) and the body was found five days later (11) on Woodford Golf Course, close to his home in Clematis Gardens.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/14/natwest314.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/14/ixuknews.html

It is understood that Mr Coulbeck had made a previous attempt to take his life last week.

He later disappeared from his home in Woodford Green, east London, last Thursday.

His body was found in nearby woods five days later. He had left a suicide note for his wife, Susan, and sons Christopher, 27, and 25-year-old Ralph.

The FBI issued a statement saying that it had spoken to Mr Coulbeck four years ago as part of the Enron investigation but that he was not a suspect.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A232602

AT THE 11th hour, the extradition battle involving the three NatWest bankers has taken a shocking turn. The apparent suicide of banker Neil Coulbeck — a colleague of the three and potentially a key witness against them — transforms this complex and sinister affair.

His death was announced as MPs were debating the case and the three accused were preparing to bid farewell to their families before being flown to a Texan jail. Surely this is the moment to stay the extradition and take stock?

The case against their forced removal to the US remains unanswerable. The 2003 Extradition Act (which has not even been ratified by congress yet) allows British citizens to be extradited to America without prima facie evidence. This makes the reciprocal arrangement dangerously one-sided.

Lay, 64, died of a heart attack July 5 while vacationing with his wife, Linda, in Aspen, Colo.

So Ken Lay dies a day before this guy goes missing...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Remember...... all this war in error stuff took the national attention

off Enruin. How convenient that much of the records for Enron were in building 7.

http://www.wtc7.net/articles/kimball/thirdskyscraper.html
FACT 1: WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers, and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concrete structure.4

FACT 2: WTC Building 7 – on its 23rd floor – housed an Emergency Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11th, Mayor Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center – with its clear view of the Twin Towers – but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75 Barkley Street.” WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission.5 Late 2001 was the time of “the height of the investigation into Enron, so the majority of Enron’s SEC filings were likely destroyed when World Trade Center 7 came down.”6


“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth … For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

-- Patrick Henry

[ladjf]

9. and Baxter.