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Oklahoma City police tweeted that the victim of a fatal single-vehicle wreck this morning was embattled oilman Aubrey McClendon.

Oklahoma City firefighters said earlier Wednesday that one person was found dead in a burned vehicle that had crashed on the city's northeast side.

District Fire Chief Benny Fulkerson said the person's body was found in the vehicle about 9 a.m. Wednesday after it crashed into a bridge.

McClendon, 56, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City on charges of conspiring to rig bids on oil and gas leases.
He was founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy; he left the company in 2013 following a shareholder revolt.

Aubrey McClendon has been found dead after a single vehicle crash in OKC this morning.  He was to appear before a judge today regarding the indictment handed down yesterday.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/headlines/okc-police-embattled-oilman-aubrey-mcclendon-dies-in-single-vehicle/article_731f6017-0f7c-53c9-9a62-9dad73f0362f.html

Hmm.  Suicide maybe?

Hmm.  Suicide maybe?

Frickin' coward.

It does make you wonder who the other big name company co-conspirator is.

The other biggest player in shale is Hamm. Could it be him?

Or sad/overwhelmed, hopeless...any number of things.

The other biggest player in shale is Hamm. Could it be him?

Tom Ward and Aubrey started Chesapeake together.  One article I read said Ward was the CEO at Sandridge during that period.

Hate to speculate but high rate of speed and an abrupt left turn into a bridge abutment under I-44 on a fairly desolate stretch of N. Midwest Blvd sounds like a little more than an accident.

Silkwooded?

Bid rigging can't be one sided. But its very nature, that's just not possible. Others are going down old Rt 66 in the near future.

First thing I thought. 40 MPH isn't that fast.

The more I read about McClendon’s career, I ask myself: “When is enough wealth enough?"

Not to turn this conversation too far left... but:

There are 200,000 people in the world with a net worth above $30 mil (70,000 of those in the US, 5000 Americans have more than $100 mil). Those people experienced 7% wealth growth last year.  There are 2,300 people with more than $1 Billion. Those people experienced wealth growth of 12 % last year. Everyone else lost wealth in the aggregate.  Those ultra high net worth individuals ($30mil+) control ~$30,000,000,000,000.00 in wealth. Or about 12% of all the wealth in the world. Drop the bar to $1mil net worth, and that .7% owns 50% of all wealth in the world.

For many people, the answer to how much wealth is enough is "more." And many will lie, cheat, and steal to get it. Even if the consequence is losing your company, respect, facing criminal charges, and even death. Just a billion more is all I need.

Anyway, are we sure that was him? Couldn't have been much left. Poor soul.

The only way to fake a death is when there's no body to be found.

More on 40 mph....even without seat belts, the would likely be survivable even without seat belts just due to air bags.  Painful, but survivable...

40 mph frontal impact is like falling off a 5 story building - inflating an airbag on the ground at the last moment would certainly make it "survivable," but statistically I'm not sure your odds are better than 50/50. It sure would suck.

Per the conspiracy theory - DNA and dental records are easy to confirm. Add in wedding rings, cell phone signals, etc. Weak conspiracy theory.

He wasn't going 40....Upwards of 90......

Here is an assortment of 40 mph crashes.  His car definitely going faster!  Seems like a lot of fire, too, for some reason... Was that a GM vehicle??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5cp93zefk

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/aubrey-mcclendon-bet-big-finance-233800421.html

According to the OKCPD, the Tahoe’s black box says 88 MPH 5 seconds prior to impact.  It also shows the brakes were “tapped” but he made no attempt to jam on the brakes.  Sounds like he might have been having second thoughts up to the end.

So he went back to the future.....???

Damn flux capacitor

DNA and dental records are easy to confirm. Add in wedding rings, cell phone signals, etc. Weak conspiracy theory.

Reading the car data record, he was traveling 78 mph at impact.  Down from 88 to 90 mph a short time before the crash.

They attributed that to the soft soil on the side of the road in the presser yesterday.

The terms outlined in the April 2013 pitch, obtained by Bloomberg, were so favorable to McClendon, however, that most investors turned him down, according to people familiar with the response.

After some haggling, one of the few that accepted was Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Energy & Minerals Group, the firm led by Raymond, son of former Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Lee Raymond.

Though there’s still time to salvage the bets, much — if not all — of the estimated $2.6 billion that an EMG fund put into a half-dozen enterprises set up by McClendon’s American Energy Partners LP could be lost, according to Carin Dehne-Kiley, a Standard & Poor’s credit analyst who tracks three of the four biggest ventures. Side bets by EMG investors added hundreds of millions of dollars to that figure, said two people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the information is confidential. That, too, is at risk.

“There’s a good chance these guys will default in the next 12 months,” barring an oil-price rebound, Dehne-Kiley said of the EMG-backed American Energy Partners ventures that she tracks.

Medical Examiner rules it was an accident.

Silkwood...China Syndrome...he never got a chance to bring the files...

Guess they don't  have to worry that life insurance policy won't pay off now that it's ruled an "accident".

Medical Examiner rules it was an accident.

http://kfor.com/2016/06/08/medical-examiner-aubrey-mcclendons-death-an-accident/ (http://kfor.com/2016/06/08/medical-examiner-aubrey-mcclendons-death-an-accident/)

I never realized what a fire plug he was at 6'3” tall and 194# according to the autopsy.

FTFY  :)

Nope, autopsy report claims 63”.

From the same Oklahoma ME's office making national news about funding and missed accreditation?

As a commercial driver I see lots of drivers displaying suicidal behaviour everyday. Speeding, driving one handed with a phone to their ear, swerving lanes without signals, ignorant of driving rules, eating, smoking and under the influence. I do not find it curious that a stressed oil man under indictment might have lost control of his vehicle because of any of these behaviors. Its also just as likely that he momentarily yielded to that stress, but there is no evidence to indicate it was suicide. Its weird to see so much enmity and conspiracy over this guy. Rich guy exposed as subject to the same greed and incompetence as the general population. Nothing new here.