“British Bill gates”, Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley chairman, Jonathan bloomer, disappear

[milotic2]

❗️🌪🇮🇹 - British multimillionaire Mike Lynch, co-founder of Autonomy, and Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, are missing after their yacht, Bayesian, was wrecked by a tornado off the coast of Sicily.

The yacht had 22 people on board; 15 were rescued,… pic.twitter.com/QDOKkytJeS
- 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) August 20,

Comments

[komichi]

Lynch and the passengers were celebrating Lynch's acquittal on fraud charges for billions for the sale of his company to HP.

Oop 💅 bye

[squirrels_oh_no]

From what I've read about the case, it probably was MOSTLY innocent - HP just regretted their poor business decisions later and fired the exec who approved the deal 5 weeks after he signed off on it. HP vetted his company poorly and regretted it later. People expected since he was found guilty in a civil suit in the UK, he'd be guilty in the US, but nope, he was acquitted. Not to say he was a good person or anything, but tbh it sounded like HP really fucked up on their end and tried to blame someone else for an £11 billion oopsie. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/mike-lynch-fraud-trial-acquittal-autonomy-explained

[aristobrit]

In 2023, the British judge found him liable for civil fraud in the matter, and in a separate trial, one of his co-conspirators was found guilty and I believe sentenced to five years in prison. It was a surprise that he was acquitted in the SF trial, most experts thought he would be found guilty, regardless of HP's vetting or lack of vetting the deal.

[automaticpeople]

Yeah, let’s celebrate the death of a barely adult girl, because her rich dad was found not guilty of fraud.

[theylezharold]

They found them all dead, I think his daughter's body is the only one still not found....

Alsooooo 👀 👀

"The aura of misfortune? only deepened when it emerged that Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former vice president of finance for Mr. Lynch’s former company and a co-defendant in the fraud case, was killed two days earlier, when he was hit by a car while jogging near his house in England."

[anterrabre]

This sounds like something that happens when everyone involved got cursed.

[theylezharold]

I think it's being cursed (I've been researching and deep-diving the huge role that luck plays in people's lives and it's so unfair bc I have none and it's also fascinating, but also sucks bc the odds are against you if you have a shitty childhood

[for_serious13]

This whole comment is wild

[iamkenough]

The other guy that was part of the same case was hit by a car on Saturday and died and now this.

Freaky.

[sabrina54]

Yooo, what was the case? What did they do?? Because two people involved in the same case dying a week apart can't be a coincidence...😶

[piratesswoop]

i mean, it would be weird if the second guy was the only victim but this was a weather related event.

[iamkenough]

I don't think the deaths are on purpose but it is just one of those freaky coincidences.

[belle_chouette]

I just read an article with the manufacturer, they said that this yacht is basically unsinkable … unless you do something like leave portholes open during a storm which lets lots of water in 💀

[pi_lady]

I read that too and it sounds like a bs claim to cover their asses and shift blame elsewhere. Nothing that's human-made is ever going to be actually indesctructable, there's just no way to ensure that.

[belle_chouette]

oh yeah, unsinkable never means truly unsinkable, but this vessel was built to withstand very high winds like these so I'm curious about the open hatches/doors/windows theories.

[blazingeternity]

As a sailboat noob, I wonder if it made a difference that they were anchored. As in having too much resistance against the force, so instead of getting pushed away, you receive the full impact?

[felixfin]

Did the Orcas do this?

I saw the article a few days ago and was waiting for it to come here haha. Rest in Pieces to another billionaire.

[therearewords]

Yearly sacrifice to Poseidon.

[theylezharold]

Billionaire euthanasia