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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison abandoned his car on a bridge with the phrase “Suicide is Painless” scrawled on its hood, but no body has been found in the river below — and the victims of his fraud say they doubt he killed himself.
The FBI and state police are skeptical, saying they’re still looking for Samuel Israel III, a co-founder and chief executive of the now-collapsed Bayou hedge funds. He was sentenced in April to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy and fraud.
