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Antifa Assassin? Health Insurance CEO Gunned Down on Manhattan Street

Posted on | December 4, 2024 | No Comments

A masked man using a pistol with a silencer murdered a health insurance CEO near the Hilton hotel on 6th Avenue in midtown Manhattan this morning, and Ace of Spades speculates that the gunman was Antifa, which might be the only political motive that makes sense, but I have no reason to suspect that this was politically motivated. The slain executive’s wife says there had been threats against her husband, which is exactly what she’d say if she had hired a hit man to kill him so she could cash in his life insurance — which I’ve got no reason to suspect that, either, but if this was a network primetime crime drama, you know the wife would be Suspect No. 1. But then it would turn out that the dead man’s mistress or his business partner did it, because it’s never the obvious suspect, is it?

The motive is the real mystery here, and what makes the story so fascinating is, first of all, the smoothness of the killer, who had obviously spent time planning this murder, staking out the hotel, lying in wait, then making his getaway on a bicycle. This is spy-thriller stuff. And, of course, this isn’t a “usual suspects” sort of murder. Like, there will be hundreds of homicides in New York City this year, the vast majority of which will be Ghetto Dudes killing other Ghetto Dudes — some kind of personal dispute or a gang rivalry or a drug deal gone bad. But this was a rich white guy getting shot by another white guy in a “targeted” killing outside a posh hotel, not a random drive-by in the ’hood.

By the way, the slain CEO was being investigated by the Department of Justice on suspicion of insider trading. Could that have something to do with why he was killed? Was he prepared to testify against other executives suspected in that case? Or was somebody afraid that he might spill the beans about something else? IYKWIMAITYD.

Just sayin’ . . .



 

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