Thunder Part-Owner Indicted, Later Dies in Car Crash

alam1108 · Mar 2, 2016

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Oklahoma City Thunder Part-Owner Indicted For Bid-Rigging Oil And Gas Land Leases

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Oklahoma City Thunder part-owner Aubrey McClendon—who owns 20 percent of the team and was part of the group that bought the then-Seattle SuperSonics from Howard Schultz and moved them to Oklahoma City—was charged today by the Justice Department with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. Each charge carries a maximum possible penalty of 10 years in jail, and a $1 million fine.

According to a Justice Department release, McClendon, who founded Chesapeake Energy in 1989 and was CEO until 2013, colluded with another oil and natural gas company over a five year period to avoid bidding against each other for leases in Oklahoma, with the pre-determined winner allocating part of the lease to the “loser.”

Since buying the Thunder, McClendon has consistently been embroiled in legal trouble. In 2015 Chesapeake Energy sued McClendon’s new company, American Energy Partners, alleging McClendon took proprietary information when he left. American Energy Partners settled the suit by paying $25 million and giving Chesapeake Energy 6,000 acres. Chesapeake Energy also paid $25 million to settle a suit filed by the Michigan attorney general, with similar collusion charges levied against McClendon as the ones just brought by the federal government.
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Victim In Fatal NE OKC Crash Identified As Aubrey McClendon

OKLAHOMA CITY -

The victim in a deadly single-vehicle crash in northeast Oklahoma City has been identified as 56-year-old Aubrey McClendon, Oklahoma City Police confirm.

First responders were called to the scene of the deadly crash just after 9 a.m. on N. Midwest Blvd., between E. Memorial Rd. and NE 122nd. St. to an SUV that had reportedly struck a bridge and burst into flames. One person was pronounced dead at the scene and later police confirmed with News 9 that the deceased individual was in fact McClendon.

The Medical Examiner’s office would not confirm that fact, and said they will have to continue to investigate.

McClendon, the former CEO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corp., was indicted for conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma on Tuesday. He was expected to turn himself in and appear before a judge at the federal courthouse on Wednesday.
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A rather eerie story.

Barnstable · Mar 2, 2016

This sounds like a tv show story line.

Like he faked his own death and moved to Cuba like 2Pac.

Or it could have just been suicide

Extremely weird.

therealdeal · Mar 2, 2016

This is completely strange. Could be a coincidence or it could have been something much more saddening and troubling... Not a good story...

John3:16 · Mar 2, 2016

Definitely committed suicide. Indicted a day earlier, drove off the road, thru the grass, to the wall. Police say he had a lot of time to correct himself if he simply lost control.

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