Schrenker: "Data" show he tried to fake own death

2010-03-14T12:30:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Accused money manager says "data" show he tried to fake his own death in plane crash</div><div><p>A former money manager facing fraud charges acknowledges in a newspaper interview that evidence indicates he was trying to fake his own death when he parachuted from his private plane that later crashed in a Florida swamp.</p><p>Marcus Schre...

Ind. money manager plans book about plane crash

2010-02-24T19:52:29Z

<div id="subtitle">Indiana money manager who tried to fake death with Florida plane crash says he plans book</div><div><p>An indicted Indiana money manager plans a book about his attempt to flee mounting personal problems, which ended with him parachuting from a plane that later crashed into a Florida swamp.</p><p>

Ind. man who tried to fake death held on $4M bond

2010-02-25T07:19:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Ind. money manager who tried to fake death with plane crash makes court appearance via video</div><div><p>A former Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death by jumping out of a small plane before it crashed in Florida appeared in court via video on Tuesday to face charges that he bilked a family member, friends and othe...

Ind. money manager faces more trouble at home

2010-02-25T18:30:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Indiana money manager who crashed plane faces a new legal saga of financial fraud charges</div><div><p>Authorities say the troubled Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death in a plane crash to avoid financial ruin had built his investment businesses on the backs of people he knew — acquaintances, a friend of 10 years and even his own aunt.</p>&lt...

Plane Crash Mystery

2009-08-19T06:45:37Z

FILE - A Aug. 31, 2008 file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows investment manager Marcus Schrenker. Schrenker, who pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of intentionally crashing his plane to fake his death and flee financial ruin is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 in Pensacola, ...

Ind. money manager guilty in Fla. plane crash

2010-02-27T01:41:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Ind. money manager pleads guilty to intentionally crashing plane in the Fla. Panhandle</div><div><p>An Indiana money manger avoided trial in Florida by pleading guilty on Friday to federal charges that he intentionally crashed his plane to fake his death and flee financial ruin, but his legal troubles aren't over.</p>...

U.S. money manager pleads guilty in plane crash hoax

2010-02-27T01:03:39Z

<div><p>MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. money manager pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges stemming from a plot to fake his own death in a small plane crash in Florida in an attempt to avoid financial fraud charges in Indiana.</p><p&gt...

Money manager to plead guilty in Fla. plane crash

2010-02-27T01:40:04Z

<div id="subtitle">Ind. money manager to plead guilty to crashing plane in Fla. in attempt to fake his death</div><div><p>An Indiana money manager plans to plead guilty to crashing an airplane near a Florida Panhandle neighborhood in a botched attempt to fake his own death and escape f...

US Plane Crash Mystery

2009-06-04T18:23:12Z

FILE - This Jan. 13, 2009 file photo shows a latex glove sitting on a picnic table near the spot where U.S. Marshals took Marcus Schrenker into custody at the KOA campground in Chattahoochee, Fla. A federal public defender's office in Florida says Schrenker is set to plead guilty to charges of crashing an airplane ...

Ind. money manager competent for trial in Florida

2010-03-01T10:44:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal judge finds Indiana money manager competent to stand trial on Florida charges in June</div><div><p>A troubled Indiana money manager accused of trying to fake his death and escape financial ruin by parachuting before crashing his plane is competent for a June trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday.</p><p&...

Ruined financiers committing desperate acts

2010-03-01T20:20:43Z

<div><p>In the abyss of financial ruin, faced with sure disgrace and possibly prison, some of the newly scandalized rich have taken desperate measures in these despairing times.</p><p>The black hole of hopelessness can be overwhelming. A man who lost $1.4 billion to Bernie Madoff sits down in his Manhattan office and carefully write...

Wife: Affair began money manager's downward spiral

2010-03-01T22:01:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Wife says happy life with now-indicted, parachuting money manager changed when he began affair</div><div><p>An Indiana money manager charged with trying to fake his death in a plane crash began to change over the past year — ultimately revealing a double life — after he started an affair, his estranged wife said Friday.</p><p>"Everything that happen...

Indiana pilot ordered to pay $12M in Ala. lawsuit

2010-03-02T05:46:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Indiana financial manager in staged plane crash ordered to pay $12M in Alabama lawsuit</div><div><p>The money troubles of an Indiana financial manager accused of staging a plane crash to fake his own death got worse when an Alabama judge ordered him to pay $12 million in a lawsuit stemming from the sale of an airplane.</p&am...

Assets of parachuting money manager's wife frozen

2010-03-02T06:56:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Judge freezes assets belonging to wife of Indiana money manager charged in Fla. plane crash</div><div><p>An Indiana judge has frozen the assets of an indicted money manager and his wife, placing the money in a receivership where his clients might recover some of their losses.</p><p>Authorities have charg...

Former girlfriend: Ind. financier was suicidal

2010-03-02T14:40:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Former girlfriend of Ind. financial manager says he was suicidal in weeks before plane crash</div><div><p>A former girlfriend of indicted money manager Marcus Schrenker testified Friday that he was suicidal a week before he crashed his airplane into the

Jailed investor tells paper he can't recall crash

2010-03-02T17:58:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Investor accused of faking plane crash tells newspaper he doesn't recall bailing out</div><div><p>An Indiana financial adviser accused of trying to fake his death in a plane crash said he's been under psychiatric care and claims not to recall the events of the day he bailed out, a newspaper reported Friday.</p><p>Indiana financial manager to testify in court, claim they lost thousands</div><div><p>Six people who claim they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to an Indiana investment adviser before he tried to fake his death in a Florida plane crash will tell their stories in court.</p><p>

Ind. pilot accused of faking death out of hospital

2010-03-02T20:04:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Ind. pilot accused of faking death to escape financial, personal trouble is out of hospital</div><div><p>An Indiana financial manager suspected of faking his death in a plane crash has been released from the hospital.</p><p>Marcus Schrenker was booked into the Marcus Schrenker downed a punch of pills containing acetaminophen to this his blood before his failed suicide attempt. Doctors have now decided they want to keep Schrenker at a Tallahassee hospital for observation through the weekend.<br /> <br /> Schrenker, who is accused of trying to fake is own ...

Ind. pilot expected to stay in Fla. hospital

2010-03-02T20:56:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Officials: Money manager accused in plane crash hoax will stay in hospital until next week</div><div><p>An Indiana financial manager suspected of staging his death in a plane crash is expected to remain hospitalized until early next week.</p><p>U.S. Marshals say 38-year-old

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