Executive in 500ft Canary Wharf death leap was in
turmoil after split from girlfriend: He used bolt
cutters to reach the roof
'Brilliant' Gabriel Magee had repeatedly tried to get on
Canary Wharf roof
In January he broke through hatch and jumped as workers
arrived
Ex-girlfriend spoke of his interest in students who died
in a suicide pact
'That was something Gabe thought about a lot', she told
his inquest
Coroner records suicide verdict driven by mental illness
Father accused firm of 'murder by omission' for failing
to stop him
JP Morgan head of investigations said it is 'a place of
work, not a prison'
By MARTIN ROBINSON and MARIO LEDWITH FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 10:25 EST, 20 May 2014 | UPDATED: 04:47 EST,
21 May 2014
View comments
A JP Morgan executive leapt to his death from the bank’s
European headquarters in London after using bolt cutters
to break out on to the roof, an inquest heard.
Gabriel Magee fell 500ft to his death as horrified
workers arrived at the building in Canary Wharf.
A day earlier the ‘brilliant’ IT executive had written
‘jump’ on his computer.
Angry: His father Bill Magee spoke outside court to
accuse the firm of 'murder by omission'
+8
Evidence: Lucy Pinches said her ex-boyfriend was
fascinated by parallel universes and an American couple
who hoped if they killed themselves they would wake in
one
+8
Gabriel's father Bill Magee (left) accused JP Morgan of
'murder by omission' after the inquest. In court, Lucy
Pinches (right) said her ex-boyfriend was fascinated by
parallel universes and a couple who had a suicide pact
Poplar Coroner's Court heard Mr Magee had a 'dark side'
and was repeatedly captured on CCTV trying to get onto
the roof of the tower block in the weeks before his
death.
After the breakdown of a long-term relationship, Mr
Magee had developed an obsession with a bizarre suicide
pact involving two students.
In the months leading up to his death he had tried to
access the 33-storey building’s roof on several
occasions.
RELATED ARTICLES
Previous
1
Next
Conviction: Former Eton classics teacher Ian McAuslen
killed himself a decade after he admitted child
pornography charges
Eton classics teacher caught with child porn on
school...
Martin Hadfield
'Too proud to claim benefits': Tragedy of unemployed...
SHARE THIS ARTICLE
Share
Security bosses at the bank said it had been discovered
that he had been on a number of reconnaissance missions
to the bank’s upper floors.
Following his death, investigators also unearthed notes
on his computer expressing self-hatred and reminding
himself to ‘try to jump off the building’.
Mr Magee’s father accused the bank of ‘negligence’ and
‘murder by omission’ last night, suggesting that
‘something more sinister’ was behind his son’s death.
CCTV footage showed Mr Magee, who had worked at the bank
for 10 years, climbing on to the roof on the night of
January 27.
Before he jumped he sent his girlfriend Veronica Strande
several text messages while he sat drinking tequila on
the roof of the building, the inquest heard.
His ex-girlfriend Lucy Pinches said today Mr Magee had
an obsession with the concept of parallel universes and
a suicide pact of two U.S. students.
'There was a story of a double suicide in the States
where two students had killed themselves, she said.
'It was to do with quantum physics and suicide, the two
students were linked up to lethal injections which were
operated by lottery numbers.
'So the only universe they would wake up in would be the
one they both won the lottery in.
'That was something Gabe thought about a lot and had the
mental capacity to think about it a lot, with the
equations and the physics.'
Tragedy: IT executive Gabriel Magee was found dead at
the end of January after jumping from the top of JP
Morgan's headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, and
landing on a surrounding roof
+8
Tragedy: IT executive Gabriel Magee was found dead at
the end of January after jumping from the top of JP
Morgan's headquarters in Canary Wharf, London, and
landing on a surrounding roof
The couple had split up in late 2012 after an on-off
four-year relationship, which began to break down after
his behaviour became more and more unusual.
She continued: 'He was a very unique person, he was
incredibly intelligent, he had a brilliant mind, he was
very kind and affectionate, he was creative, he had a
sense of adventure, he liked trying new things.
'But he did have a darker side to him that I found was
always there.
'I always felt he suffered from some kind of depression
and at various stages it was worse, some times it was
better, but he had a darkness that was linked to his
creativity.'
Mr Magee leapt from the top floor of the tower at around
8am on January 28 and had fallen 24 floors onto a ninth
storey roof, which surrounds the base of the bank's
European Headquarters.
A therapist who treated Mr Magee over ten months in 2012
said she had no reason to suspect that he was at high
risk of committing suicide.
However security logs from his key card and CCTV footage
showed him carrying out reconnaissance to get onto the
roof of the building in the months before he jumped.
JP Morgan investigator Jonathan Shatford told the court
that he was also seen on external cameras standing
outside the building looking at the roof.
Access to the top floor of the holding is limited to an
alarmed fire exit and an access hatch with a padlock,
which had been removed when police arrived on the scene.
Tragedy: Mr Magee's girlfriend Veronica Strande,
pictured with his father Bill Magee, received several
text messages before he killed himself
+8
Tragedy: Mr Magee's girlfriend Veronica Strande,
pictured with his father Bill Magee, received several
text messages before he killed himself
On two occasions Mr Magee was seen climbing a steel step
ladder into the hatch, after attempting to swipe out of
the fire exit with his staff ID card.
He was last seen on CCTV at 20.11 moving around on top
of the roof. When police and Mr Shatford went to
investigate they found a pair of bolt cutters, a mobile
phone and tablet beside an empty bottle of tequila.
Mr Magee, known as 'Gabe' to friends, had lived in the
UK since 2007.
He had spent nearly a decade at the firm, where he
specialised in cutting-edge software that makes huge
profits by predicting patterns in the market.
However a colleague told his inquest that his job was
'low-stress' and had seemed 'extremely happy' in the
days before his death.
Manager Andrew Harling said that Mr Magee had acted 'out
of character' on three occasions in the year before his
suicide.
Close friend and colleague Mark Gibbons was given the
grim task of gathering Mr Magee's belongings together.
He said: 'As part of the process of getting his personal
effects together we spent quite a long time going
through his desk.
Family: Mr Magee's sister Daniela was also at the
inquest where a verdict of suicide was recorded
+8
Family: Mr Magee's sister Daniela was also at the
inquest where a verdict of suicide was recorded
'There was nothing on there particularly untoward about
suicide or the building itself. There was a map of
Canary Wharf, but there was nothing to indicate that he
had actively done any reconnaissance on the building to
find an area.'
But Mr Gibbons said his friend was having 'some very
unusual thoughts and confided with me about them.
'He thought Lucy was maybe a witch.'
Mr Magee's father, Bill, had travelled to the UK with
sister, Gabriela, to hear details of the time leading to
his death.
According to his current girlfriend Veronica Strande Mr
Magee had emailed her the evening before his death
saying he was 'running late'.
She told the inquest he had never talked about taking
his own life. She said: 'On the Sunday before it
happened we had hours of conversation about our future
and what we wanted. I know that he was very happy with
his work arrangements.
'He had just made his citizenship application and we had
spoken about where we wanted to live together. With
British citizenship we could go an move to somewhere in
Europe.
'There was nothing mentioned about being upset with
anything. He was looking forward to the future, what we
wanted, what we wanted to see, what we wanted to do and
what we wanted to achieve.'
Recording death by suicide Senior Coroner Mary Hassell
said that Mr Magee's battle with psychological illness
would have led to struggle at work, rather than work
stress being a driver behind the death.
Gabriel's father Bill Magee refused to accept the
suicide verdict, accusing JP Morgan of 'murder by
omission'.
He demanded to know why JP Morgan security staff did not
stop his son accessing the roof.
Speaking outside the court, he said: 'Why wasn't he
stopped?
'The security features in place - cameras and entry
alarms - should have alerted security and they should
have taken responsibility for keeping any JP Morgan
employee from accessing the roof of the JP Morgan
building.
'This negligence on the part of JP Morgan cost my son
his life. That negligence killed my son.'
The inquest heard that Mr Magee accessed security the
top floors of the building via a fire escape, according
to his security pass logs.
However, his movements were not analysed because his
pass allowed him into those areas from his office on the
ninth floor.
Checks of the pass and CCTV after his death showed he
made several visits to the top level of the building,
once in November 2013 and once in January, days before
he died.
Mr Magee, speaking after the inquest, said: 'I don't
want to accept that [verdict].
'He drank enough tequila that whenever he fell he may
have been looking to say "have I got the guts to do
this" and fell. He could have fallen.'
In shock: A JP Morgan worker looks out of his window as
Mr Magee's body was recovered in January, but it emerged
today he had made several attempts to get on the roof
before his death
+8
In shock: A JP Morgan worker looks out of his window as
Mr Magee's body was recovered in January, but it emerged
today he had made several attempts to get on the roof
before his death
The man was found on the 9th floor of the bank's
European headquarters building
+8
People look out of the window of the J P Morgan building
at Canary Wharf
+8
Roof death: Workers at Canary Wharf said hundreds were
looking at the man's body from their windows
He added: 'Gabriel, our son, was crushed by that fall,
as were the hearts of his brother and sisters and his
mother and I.'
In the inquest Mr Magee asked Jonathan Shatford, JP
Morgan's head of investigations, how his son had been
able to access the roof.
Mr Shatford replied that their security was focused on
preventing unauthorised people getting in rather than
people breaking out.
Mr Shatford said: 'JP Morgan is not a prison, it is a
place of work.'
He said Gabriel Magee had cut open a lock on a hatch on
the fire escape, which was next to an alarmed door which
would have alerted security if he had tried to open it.
Bolt cutters and the broken lock were found on the roof.
In her summing up, Mrs Hassell agreed with Mr Shatford,
and concluded Gabriel Magee had carried out a
'considered act'.
She added: 'JP Morgan have of course a duty of care to
their employees and a duty to keep them as safe as
possible.
'But there has to be a balance that is struck between
the safety of employees and... not imprisoning the
employees.
'If there had been a fire and any escape route had been
blocked we would be here asking why that was.'
A spokesman for JP Morgan said: 'Our heartfelt
condolences go out to Gabriel’s family and friends. We
are focused on supporting our colleagues and those close
to him on this very difficult day.'
For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK
on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or
click here for details
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633973/U-S-IT-worker-obsessed-idea-committing-suicide-lead-waking-parallel-universe-jumped-death-JP-Morgans-500ft-London-HQ.html#ixzz3NkoVmECy
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on
Facebook
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633973/U-S-IT-worker-obsessed-idea-committing-suicide-lead-waking-parallel-universe-jumped-death-JP-Morgans-500ft-London-HQ.html
Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel
Magee, Under Investigation in London
By Pam Martens: February 9, 2014
(Left) JPMorgan's European Headquarters at 25 Bank
Street, in the Canary Wharf Section of London
London Police have confirmed that an official
investigation is underway into the death of a 39-year
old JPMorgan Vice President whose body was found on the
9th floor rooftop of a JPMorgan building in Canary Wharf
two weeks ago.
The news reports at the time of the incident of Gabriel
(Gabe) Magee’s “non suspicious” death by “suicide”
resulting from his reported leap from the 33rd level
rooftop of JPMorgan’s European headquarters building in
London have turned out to be every bit as reliable as
CEO Jamie Dimon’s initial response to press reports on
the London Whale trading scandal in 2012 as a “tempest
in a teapot.”
An intense investigation is now underway into the
details of exactly how Magee died and why his death was
so quickly labeled “non suspicious.” An upcoming
Coroner’s inquest will reveal the details of that
investigation.
It’s becoming clear that when JPMorgan tells us “nothing
to see here, move along,” that’s the precise time we
need to bring in the blood hounds and law enforcement
with the guts to get past this global behemoth’s army of
lawyers who have a penchant for taking over
investigations and producing their own milquetoast
reports of what happened.
Jamie Dimon’s so-called “tempest in a teapot” in the
London Whale matter morphed into $6.2 billion in bank
depositor losses, $1 billion in fines to JPMorgan, 300
pages of scandalous details by the U.S. Senate’s
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that called
into question JPMorgan’s risk controls and the integrity
of upper management, and, finally, resulted in criminal
charges against two of the men involved. The criminal
cases have yet to go to trial.
According to numerous sources close to the investigation
of Gabriel Magee’s death, almost nothing thus far
reported about his death has been accurate. This appears
to stem from an initial poorly worded press release
issued by the Metropolitan Police in London which may
have been a result of bad communications between it and
JPMorgan or something more deliberate on someone’s part.
The Metropolitan Police have provided me with their
original press release. It reads:
“Police were called at approximately 08.02 hrs on
Tuesday 28 January to reports of a man having fallen
from a building at 25 Bank Street, E14 and landing on a
ninth floor roof. London Ambulance Service and London
Air Ambulance attended. The man was pronounced dead at
the scene a short while later. The deceased is believed
to be aged 39. We believe we know the identity of the
deceased but await formal identification. Next of kin
have been informed. No arrests have been made and the
death is being treated as non-suspicious.”
That press release resulted in CNBC running with this
headline: “Death Plunge at JP Morgan Tower Not
Suspicious, Police Say.” Dozens of other media followed
with similar reporting.
The Independent newspaper in London flatly stated that
Magee “died after falling from the roof.” The London
Evening Standard tweeted: “Bankers watch JP Morgan IT
exec fall to his death from roof of London HQ,” which
linked to their article which declared in its opening
sentence that “A man plunged to his death from a Canary
Wharf tower in front of thousands of horrified commuters
today.”
At this moment in time, police have yet to produce a
single witness who saw Magee jump from the rooftop of
this building, let alone “thousands of horrified
commuters.” (Exactly why would thousands of horrified
commuters be standing in front of 25 Bank Street at 8:02
a.m. with their necks tilted up toward the roof? Magee
did not land on the sidewalk; his body was found on a
rooftop 9 floors above street level.) Both the
Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers are
majority owned by Alexander Lebedev, a Russian and
former KGB agent.
No one in the media seemed to notice that Iain Dey,
Deputy Business Editor of the Sunday Times in London,
flatly disputed the notion that a plunge from the
rooftop had been observed by anyone when he reported
that: “Gabriel Magee’s body lay for several hours before
it was found at 8am last Tuesday.”
The only facts in this case which are currently reliable
are that fellow workers looking from their windows in
the building noticed a body lying on the 9th level
rooftop, which juts out from the main 33-story building,
at around 8:02 a.m. on Tuesday, January 28, and called
the police. There is no concrete proof at this moment in
time that Magee fell, jumped or was ever on the 33-story
rooftop, which is a highly secured area of the building
unobtainable by employees other than top security and
maintenance personnel. According to design documents
that have been publicly filed, the rooftop functions as
a highly sophisticated cooling plant with large, bulky
machinery taking up the majority of the space on the
side of the building from which Magee would have had to
jump in order to land on the 9th level rooftop.
No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the
death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of
evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Magee had
emailed his girlfriend, Veronica, on the evening of
January 27 to say that he was about to leave the office
and would see her shortly. She received no further
emails from him, suggesting that whatever happened to
Magee happened shortly thereafter, not the next morning.
According to multiple sources, Magee’s girlfriend
reported his disappearance on the evening of January 27.
The Metropolitan Police would provide me with no details
on that investigation.
The JPMorgan building at 25 Bank Street is located in
the borough of Tower Hamlets. According to drawings and
plans submitted by JPMorgan to the borough after it
purchased the building for £495 million in 2010, the 9th
floor roof is accessible “via the stair from level 8
within the existing Level 9 plant enclosure…” In other
words, it would be just as reasonable to entertain the
possibility that Magee suffered his physical injuries
inside the building and his body was placed on the 9th
level rooftop via an internal staircase access sometime
during the night of January 27.
The LinkedIn profile that Magee set up for himself
online indicates that he was involved with “Technical
architecture oversight for planning, development, and
operation of systems for fixed income securities and
interest rate derivatives.” As a key part of the
computer technology group in London, Magee may have been
involved in providing subpoenaed material for the London
Whale investigation and the myriad other investigations
that JPMorgan has been sanctioned and fined for over the
last year. There are two serious open investigations
into foreign exchange rigging and potential manipulation
of commodities markets.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lists the man
known as the London Whale, Bruno Iksil, who is
cooperating with criminal prosecutors, and the two
traders who have been criminally charged with hiding
hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, Javier
Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout, as having the same
JPMorgan address, 25 Bank Street, as did Gabriel Magee.
Documents produced by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations, however, show a 2012
address for JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office in
London, supposedly where the London Whale trades were
originating, as 100 Wood Street, 6th Floor, London. If
the London Whale traders were located at an address
other than the European Headquarters for JPMorgan, it
could have been to evade detection by regulators that
the firm was using bank deposits in the United States,
that carried FDIC insurance, to place high risk gambles
in London in the derivatives market.
The Senate’s 300-page report noted that key traders
involved in the London Whale matter, including Iksil,
Martin-Artajo, and Grout, refused to submit to
interviews by the Senate investigators. The Senate
report notes that “their refusal to provide information
to the Subcommittee meant that this Report had to be
prepared without their direct input. The Subcommittee
relied instead on their internal emails, recorded
telephone conversations and instant messages, internal
memoranda and presentations, and interview summaries
prepared by the bank’s internal investigation, to
reconstruct what happened.”
If Magee became aware that incriminating emails, instant
messages, or video teleconferences were not turned over
in their entirety to Senate investigators or Justice
Department prosecutors, that might be reason enough for
his untimely death. Yes, this is speculation. But it is
along the lines that smart thinking investigators need
to intensely explore to bring peace of mind and answers
to Gabriel Magee’s loved ones and coworkers.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/02/suspicious-death-of-jpmorgan-vice-president-gabriel-magee-under-investigation-in-london/
January 28, 2014
DECEASED: Gabriel Magee, 39, a JP Morgan employee, died
after reportedly “falling” from the roof of its European
headquarters in London in the Canary Wharf area. Magee
was vice president at JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM) London
headquarters.
Gabriel Magee, a Vice President at JPMorgan in London,
plunged to his death from the roof of the 33-story
European headquarters of JPMorgan in Canary Wharf. Magee
was involved in “Technical architecture oversight for
planning, development, and operation of systems for
fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives”
based on his online Linkedin profile.
It’s important to note that JPMorgan, like Deutsche
Bank, is under investigation for its potential
involvement in rigging foreign exchange rates. JPMorgan
is also reportedly under investigation by the same U.S.
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for its
alleged involvement in rigging the physical commodities
markets in the U.S. and London.
Regarding the initial reports of his death, journalist
Pam Martens of Wall Street on Paradeastutely exposed the
controlled, scripted details of the media accounts
surrounding Magee’s death in an article written on
February 9, 2014. Ms. Martens writes:
“According to numerous sources close to the
investigation of Gabriel Magee’s death, almost nothing
thus far reported about his death has been accurate.
This appears to stem from an initial poorly worded press
release issued by the Metropolitan Police in London
which may have been a result of bad communications
between it and JPMorgan or something more deliberate on
someone’s part.” [Emphasis added].
Ms. Martens also notes:
No solid evidence exists currently to suggest that the
death was a suicide. In fact, there is a strong piece of
evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Magee had
emailed his girlfriend, Veronica, on the evening of
January 27 to say that he was about to leave the office
and would see her shortly. [Emphasis added].
Based on information she developed, it appears likely
that Magee did not meet his fate on the morning his body
was discovered, but hours earlier. Considering the
possibility that Magee might now have died in the manner
publicized, Ms. Martens offers speculation, and notes it
as such:
If Magee became aware that incriminating emails, instant
messages, or video teleconferences were not turned over
in their entirety to Senate investigators or Justice
Department prosecutors, that might be reason enough for
his untimely death.
Looking at the death of Magee in the context of a larger
conspiracy, it is difficult not to suspect foul play and
media manipulation
-------------------
The Inquest of JPMorgan VP Gabriel
Magee: Case Closed; Move Along
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 20, 2014
Jonathan Shatford, Former Member of Metropolitan Police
in London, Headed the Internal Investigation for
JPMorgan Into the Death of Gabriel Magee
If it’s at all possible, don’t die on the premises of a
too-big-to-fail bank like JPMorgan. That’s because if
you do your otherwise meritorious life and career is
likely to be turned into a circus of slanderous tidbits
in order to promote the reputation of the global banking
behemoth as the benevolent guardian of all things noble
and saintly.
A coroner’s inquest began at 10 a.m. in London this
morning to investigate how 39 year old Gabriel Magee, a
technology Vice President who worked in JPMorgan’s
European headquarters at 25 Bank Street in London, came
to be found dead on a 9th level rooftop at approximately
8:02 a.m. on the morning of January 28 of this year.
The inquest had barely begun when the wire service,
Reuters, ran this headline: “JP Morgan Executive Had
High Alcohol Level Before Skyscraper Plunge, London
Inquest Hears.” That’s called framing the story. Within
the next hour, newspapers around the globe who had no
reporter at the inquest to do first hand reporting, were
running with the Reuters headline and abbreviated story.
Next up was a seriously specious headline from the UK
Mirror newspaper. The headline that ran in bold black
type at the newspaper’s web site declared that “A JP
Morgan Bank Vice-President Said He ‘Couldn’t Handle
This’ Before Falling Canary Wharf Tower Block.” (The
word “Off” seems to be missing from the headline as well
as any semblance of truthful reporting.)
The Mirror headline neglects to explain that those words
were uttered at least six years prior to Gabriel Magee’s
death, when he was working for JPMorgan in New York –
words that 90 percent of computer programmers have
likely uttered at some point in their career; sometimes
a dozen times a day. (That JPMorgan investigators were
forced to dig out this ancient nugget and present it at
the inquest shows just how little they had to go on to
make this suicide story stick.)
The Mirror also ferreted out a tidbit from an
ex-girlfriend, reporting: “She added that Magee had had
thoughts about life in another universe that she did not
understand and that he had continually refused help from
those close to him.” The idea of “life in another
universe” is shared by the majority of 2.18 billion
people, otherwise known as Christians, who believe in
life after death and heaven. Typically, they are not
urged to get “help” for those beliefs.
The cold hard facts on the ground are these: Gabriel
Magee was in a loving relationship with a beautiful
young attorney, Veronica Strande. They were happily
living together. Ms. Strande testified at the inquest
that “there was no problem.” Sources close to both of
them say that Magee had brought Strande to the U.S. to
meet his parents and was very happy in the relationship.
As far as being a kook as portrayed by the
ex-girlfriend, Magee’s own career nullifies that
assertion. He had worked for JPMorgan in one of the most
demanding of technology jobs for more than a decade. He
has received promotions and bonuses and risen to the
rank of Vice President. He was a key player in one of
the most important areas of technology at the company.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he was currently
engaged in “Technical architecture oversight for
planning, development, and operation of systems for
fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives.”
A former colleague told Wall Street On Parade that Magee
“focused extensively on Java and Sybase databases. He
also did C++ and many other UNIX related languages.”
In fact, Magee’s career history was staid and stable
compared to the history of his firm which has been
charged by regulators with an endless series of crimes
over the past 18 months, including lying to Congress,
facilitating the Madoff fraud (two suspended felony
counts for that one and two years of probation), rigging
electric markets in California and the Midwest,
fraudulently selling mortgages, losing $6.2 billion of
bank depositors’ money in a crazy derivatives scheme
(London Whale), rigging Libor interest rates and on and
on.
The bank’s reputation under its current CEO and
Chairman, Jamie Dimon, was summed up thusly by Senator
Carl Levin: The bank “piled on risk, hid losses,
disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged
oversight, and misinformed the public.” (See our series
here for an in depth look at the culture of this firm.)
The sensational reporting of news from Gabriel Magee’s
inquest this morning was matched only by the outrageous
and unprecedented reporting on the morning his body was
discovered on January 28 of this year.
The Independent newspaper in London flatly stated that
Magee “died after falling from the roof.” The London
Evening Standard tweeted: “Bankers watch JP Morgan IT
exec fall to his death from roof of London HQ,” which
linked to their article which declared in its opening
sentence that “A man plunged to his death from a Canary
Wharf tower in front of thousands of horrified commuters
today.”
The only person who seemed to give a whit about
reporting this story honestly was Iain Dey, Deputy
Business Editor of the Sunday Times in London, who
flatly disputed the notion that a plunge from the
rooftop had been observed by anyone when he reported
that: “Gabriel Magee’s body lay for several hours before
it was found at 8am last Tuesday.”
Lost in this morning’s sensational headlines was the
very disturbing detail that out of those “thousands of
horrified commuters” and the “bankers” reported to have
seen Magee fall, not one eye witness has been produced
by the police to this alleged jump from the top of
JPMorgan’s offices at 25 Bank Street.
As it turns out, an ole pal of the Scotland Yard was put
in charge of the internal JPMorgan investigation.
Jonathan Shatford is a former Metropolitan Police
officer from New Scotland Yard and a career detective
who rose to the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent
over 32 years. Shatford previously worked for Bear
Stearns, which collapsed during 2008 and was taken over
by JPMorgan. Shatford is responsible for JPMorgan
investigations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
As if there had been any doubt from the beginning as to
the outcome of this inquest, the coroner, Mary Hassell,
ruled at the end of the proceeding that “I am wholly
satisfied that Gabriel jumped off the 32nd floor with
the intention of killing himself.”
Case closed. Nothing to see here. Move along.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/05/the-inquest-of-jpmorgan-vp-gabriel-magee-case-closed-move-along/