Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad

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Number Six
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Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/busin ... f=business

I hope we don't see any more citizens looking for a "final exit" as the deadline approaches for amnesty over Swiss Bank accounts.
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Number Six
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Re: Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad

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Legally, it would be interesting to know how situations like this play out with the tax criminal facing the heat of the law vs. dropping dead and letting the family face the consequences. Presumably he left a will to minimize the financial trouble his family would later face with all the loopholes possible when you have access to top level legal firms.
'There are two kinds of injustice: the first is found in those who do an injury, the second in those who fail to protect another from injury when they can.' (Roman. Cicero, De Off. I. vii)

'Choose loss rather than shameful gains.' (Chilon Fr. 10. Diels)
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Demosthenes
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Re: Suicide Victim May Have Hidden Millions Abroad

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My guess is that he owned a whopping big life insurance policy (through a trust, of course.) If so, dying was one way of both avoiding the shame of a perp walk combined with dying from cancer in prison + getting his heirs the funds they need to pay the back taxes and penalties.
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