As we first reported on power lunch yesterday, the engineer pioneer died in a car crash in oklahoma yesterday, less than 24 hours after he was indicted on charges of conspireing to rig the price of oil and gas leases. Reuters now reporting the private equity fund emg halted new deals with mcclendon just before his death. Bethany mcclean is a contributing editor at vanity fair and cnbc contributor. We knew aubrey was scheduled to be in court later on that day. And now this. What have you found . Well, this is clearly a guy who was under siege from a lot of quarters and im connecting multiple dots, but you have obviously the indictment by the u. S. Government, and having the weight of the u. S. Government brute force come down on you is not an easy thing to live with. Thats been an investigation ongoing for the last four years. He was clearly starting to have a lot of trouble raising money and keeping his empire together. He tried to raise 2 billion in an ipo for American Energy partners
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In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.
In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.
Terrible news, eh? Chilly, gloomy, miserable and pointless February is upon us and it’s not going down well with the Covid refugees. Reports from the UK’s leading estate agents have it that the townies are heading back to the city. According to Hamptons, the number of homes bought outside of the capital by Londoners is at its lowest figure since 2014, while Savills say that the trend of rocketing house prices in rural areas is over and buyers are flocking back to the city.