Those wacky Wall Street hedge fund managers…

DoJ says fugitive financier Samuel Israel arrested

Fugitive hedge-fund manager Samuel Israel surrendered to police in Massachusetts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition, citing the Justice Department. Israel has been on the run since June 9 when his sport-utility vehicle was found abandoned in New York’s Westchester County with the words "suicide is painless" scrawled on the hood.

I’ll bet that suicide was especially painless.  He was heading for jail for defrauding investors, so maybe he simply decided to end his life the way he lived it…by faking it.  They talk a good game in the financial stratosphere about free markets and self reliance for pretty much the same reason the religious right likes to yap, yap, yap about Jesus and family values.