Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'fakesuicide'
July 3, 2008
Samuel Israel, the hedge fund founder who went on the lam the day he was supposed to start a 20-year prison sentence, told a judge he did try to kill himself two days ago. WCBS 2 reports that during this morning's hearing in a Manhattan federal court, Israel claimed "he swallowed 175 morphine pills and the rest of his painkillers for his bad back." However, when he woke up, he "realized God didn't want me......
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