A Wall Street analyst who spoke to Peter Smith the day before he reportedly committed suicide told the Daily Caller News Foundation there were no indications the Chicago businessman and anti-Clinton political investigator was about to take his life.
“He may have been a fantastic actor but I certainly didn’t leave that phone call saying, ‘oh shit, the guy’s at the end of his rope,’” Charles Ortel, a Wall Street investment banker and market analyst, told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group.
“This does not seem like a settled story. It made perfect sense to me he might have died of natural causes, but little chance he would have killed himself,” Ortel said.
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Ortel and Smith shared a common interest in the Clintons. Ortel has dug deeply into the financial operations of the Clinton Foundation. He first came to public attention in 2007 by exposing questionable accounting practices at General Electric. Ortel has similarly expressed doubts about the circumstances of Seth Rich’s murder — which police have concluded was a robbery gone wrong — commending those “who are trying to discover why so many people close to the last election have died along the way.”
The difference here is that Ortel knew Smith personally.
“We had countless discussions,” Ortel recalled of his relationship with Smith. “He was using his unique decades of experience in politics to offer me advice how to expose the Clinton Foundation.”
The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday that the Minnesota death record states Smith committed suicide in a hotel room May 14.
The investigator’s death came only 10 days after a Wall Street Journal interview by investigative reporter Shane Harris, who focused on Smith’s attempts to locate 33,000 emails deleted by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before she surrendered her email server to federal authorities.
The Tribune reported that Smith was asphyxiated. “He was found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached.”
Prior to Thursday’s revelation, it was assumed the 81-year old political investigator had died of natural causes while at the Mayo Clinic.
Ortel vigorously dismissed the allegation that Smith took his own life. Ortel, who may have been the last person to speak with Smith prior to his death, told TheDCNF there were no indications the wealthy Chicago businessman was about to commit suicide the next day.
“It was a friendly chat,” Ortel recalled of the phone conversation that occurred May 13. “But it certainly wasn’t the kind of chat where a person might go out and purchase two helium canisters and put a bag over your head. That made no sense,” Ortel said.
According to the death certificate, Smith died at 1:17 pm Central Time on Sunday, May 14.
Ortel said Smith did not appear depressed or give any hints he might be on the verge of taking his life.
“Absolutely not,” Ortel said. “He was excited to learn the particulars of a project we had been discussing.”
Ortel said he was concerned about Smith’s overall health and asked him about it.
“On this final call, I had to ask him, saying ‘Look, I want a straight answer, are you OK heath-wise?’ And he said, ‘well I’ve been dealing with some problems. I’m up at the Mayo Clinic.’ So that’s what he told me.’”
Ortel said Harris asked him during his June 30 interview if he believed Smith had died of natural causes.
After sharing information of Smith’s health, “Shane and I both concluded that Peter had died of natural causes.”
Smith, 81, had a long history of investigating the Clintons. He reportedly had a hand in exposing then Gov. Bill Clinton’s “Troopergate” scandal in which the future president used state troopers to guard him while he was having sex with various women.
Smith was behind an unsuccessful 2016 effort to enter the “dark Internet” to uncover Clinton’s deleted emails.
He also faced criticism by some as a person who exaggerated his accomplishments and was a name dropper who claimed to have ties to powerful or famous people.
“He got his jollies hanging around and saying he was close to all these famous political figures,” Ortel admitted.
Ortel did express doubts about the note Smith allegedly left behind, written in all caps, stating “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER.”
Smith reportedly wrote that he was taking his own life because of a “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017” and that his timing was related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.”
Ortel said that none of the emails he received from Smith were written in all-caps.
“I don’t remember a single one in all cap letters,” he said. “To put that in a suicide note as many times as he did and in language that’s not really professional doesn’t sound like him”
He also noted that many life insurance policies usually exclude payment to beneficiaries in the case of suicide.
“He struck me as one of those deeply patriotic, motherhood and apple pie types who cared deeply about this country,” Ortel said of Smith.
Another one found dead in Miami. Klaus eberwein about to give evidence about Clintons corrupt Haiti foundation dies from gunshot wound to head.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
Most life insurance policies only exclude payouts for suicide for the first two years. It’s entirely possible that he could have taken out a term policy many years ago and was coming to the end of the term where croaking before its expiration could mean a payout to his family. If he was ill anyway, it might have made financial sense to expedite his own demise. And I believe the Hillary was involved in the deaths of Vince Foster, Seth Rich and Antonin Scalia.
sounds like a fake suicide note written by the dumbed down millennial class that have watched far too many hollywood movies and had far too little education but way too much gov indoctrination. …all caps and multiple repetitions….
definitely a lower IQ signature, not one of indicative of a man in his particular position in society
Suicides and murders are common place around/
within the Clinton frame.
Haitian Gov’t Official Commits Suicide Days Before Testifying At Anti-Corruption Commission!
Wayne Dupree
We’re not claiming that Hillary Clinton had anything to do with this suicide. However, we’re just shooting the breeze with ya.
Just a couple of days ago, we learned Peter Smith, 81, allegedly committed suicide by placing a bag over his head and inserting a helium attachment because he was running out of health insurance. Now, a Haitian official who seemingly got caught up with Haitian corruption during and after the huge 2010 earthquake that killed thousands.
Related Article – Republican Who Sought Clinton Emails Found Dead In Minnesota Hotel Room!
While it’s true, the Clinton Foundation took the lead in shelling out funds they received from all over the world for Haiti Relief after the earthquake, the possibility of this government official and the Clintons is better than chance. In the story, a friend said just a couple of weeks ago, Klaus Eberwein was in great spirits as he was looking forward to opening a restaurant, so why suicide? Nobody knows or do they?
Source: Miami Herald
Klaus Eberwein, a former Haitian government official, was found dead Tuesday in a South Dade motel room in what the Miami-Dade medical examiner’s office is ruling a suicide.
“He shot himself in the head,” said Veronica Lamar, Miami-Dade medical examiner records supervisor. She listed his time of death at 12:19 p.m.
The address where Eberwein’s body was discovered according to police, 14501 S. Dixie Hwy., is a Quality Inn.
A supporter of former Haitian President Michel Martelly, Eberwein served as director general of the government’s economic development agency, Fonds d’assistance économique et social, better known as FAES. He held the position from May 2012 until February 2015 when he was replaced. He was also a partner in a popular pizza restaurant in Haiti, Muncheez, and has a pizza — the Klaus Special — named after him.
“It’s really shocking,” said Muncheez’s owner Gilbert Bailly. “We grew up together; he was like family.”
Bailly said he last spoke to Eberwein, 50, two weeks ago and he was in good spirits. They were working on opening a Muncheez restaurant in Sunrise, he said.
But it appears that Eberwein had fallen on hard times. An Uber spokesperson confirmed that he worked as a driver for awhile in South Florida.
During and after his government tenure, Eberwein faced allegations of fraud and corruption on how the agency he headed administered funds. Among the issues was FAES’ oversight of shoddy construction of several schools built after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake.
Eberwein was scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Haitian Senate’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the head of the commission, Sen. Evalière Beauplan confirmed. The commission is investigating the management of PetroCaribe funds, the money Haiti receives from Venezuela’s discounted oil program.
This video is very important as it shows how Haitians were angry at the Clintons for “destroying” Haiti:
Enough is enough. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the DOJ need to investigate now before more die!
There could possibly be no connection between Clinton and Eberweinm but then again it could the “Clinton Curse”. If you have theoretical dirt (which isn’t even real by the way because they are as clean as the Large Hadron Collider) on the Clinton’s you will ultimately kill yourself due to the guilt of having considered doing harm to those kind, wonderful and generous human beings.
You would think that by now the body count alone would prompt a really serious investigation from someone, somewhere!
Enough with the Clinton Murder Machine nonsense! Every claimed victim that I checked out so far (to primary sources) I’ve found there’s never evidence of anthing out of the ordinary. My position on the Clintons is simple: “we don’t need to make up outlandish stories about the Clintons because the truth is damning enough”. As astronomer Carl Sagan said “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
You’re either really dense, or someone’s paying you to to troll us Marshmallow Bunny.
How many people involved with you have had suspicious deaths? Coincidence stops at the 2nd one, 3rd tops.
Below is a copy & paste from a 2013 article. How many new names can be added to the list since then?
James McDougal – Clinton’s convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.
Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
Vince Foster – Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.
Ron Brown – Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown’s skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller committed suicide
C. Victor Raiser II- Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.
Paul Tulley – Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock, September 1992. Described by Clinton as a “Dear friend and trusted advisor”.
Ed Willey – Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
Jerry Parks -Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
James Bunch – Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a “Black Book” of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas.
James Wilson – Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.
Kathy Ferguson- Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
Bill Shelton – Arkansas State Trooper and fiancée of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancée, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancée.
Gandy Baugh – Attorney for Clinton’s friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.
Florence Martin – Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.
Suzanne Coleman – Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
Paula Grober – Clinton’s speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
Danny Casolaro – Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.( I read a wonderful book about this incident by an investigative reporter…scary stuff!)
Paul Wilcher – Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 “October Surprise” was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.
Jon Parnell Walker – Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.
Barbara Wise – Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
Charles Meissner – Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
Dr. Stanley Heard – Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton’s advisory council, personally treated Clinton’s mother, stepfather and brother.
Barry Seal -Drug running pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no accident. (all tied in with the death of those two boys killed on the railroad track)
Johnny Lawhorn Jr. – Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
Stanley Huggins – Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.
Hershell Friday – Attorney and Clinton fund raiser died March 1, 1994 when his plane exploded.
Kevin Ives & Don Henry – Known as “The boys on the track” case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury. BILL CLINTON was Governor and knew about this, and evidence of strong possibility that he covered for those involved.
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE
Keith Coney – Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.
Keith McMaskle – Died stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988.
Gregory Collins – Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
Jeff Rhodes – He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.
James Milan – Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to “natural causes”.
Jordan Kettleson – Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
Richard Winters – A suspect in the Ives / Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD
Major William S. Barkley Jr.
Captain Scott J . Reynolds
Sgt. Brian Hanley
Sgt. Tim Sabel
Major General William Robertson
Col. William Densberger
Col. Robert Kelly
Spec. Gary Rhodes
Steve Willis
Robert Williams
Conway LeBleu
Todd McKeehan
Well done Miles Long ! Every time I mention any of this laundry list of coincidental deaths all with one common thread Bill and Hillary Clinton I am accused of wearing a tin foil hat ! My point is , you can’t make this shit up and Marsh Rabbit fact checks everything but when the fact mill is controlled by those involved that support Bill and Hillary Clinton what then ! Damage control is a way of life for the most powerful political conspirency couple ever concieved .
I believe Hillary’s loss to President Trump has a very common thread : most average Americans tire of the Clinton shenanigans and the majority of today’s Clinton supporters are leftist extremist or liberal youthful idiots to young and ignorant of Clinton history and brain washed by leftist extremists in schools !
You’re are playing a version of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” and labeling any death within six degrees to a Clinton as “suspicious”. You’ve provided a list of names; now share you evidence that makes them suspicious.
For example, let’s start with the oft-repeated claims that, A-Vince Foster was shot in the back of his head, and B-his keys were not found:
A-According to the forensic pathology report, Vince Foster was shot in the mouth. See page 110 et seq at the link below.
B-Vince Foster’s keys were recovered at the scene; see pages 21-22 at the link below.
https://vault.fbi.gov/vincent-foster/vincent-foster-part-02-of-04/view
There are a lot of good reasons to not like the Clintons, but peddling nonsensical tales based in fantasy rather than evidence damages the credibility of those pushing the story. Stick to verifiable facts. We don’t need to make up stuff about the Clintons; the truth is damning enough.
They didn’t call them ‘Arkan-cides’ without reason! I guess people shooting themselves in the back of the head with shotguns and going to sleep on railroad tracks with trains bearing down on them are normal run of the mill accidental deaths………please.
Off topic but good.This is a link to the Half Full Report for this week.The entire report is good but the video called “Dankheart” is great.
Guys,this is a link about Eberwein that was posted on another thread.
However,it’s the headline at the top of the page the link goes to that is important.
I believe it may solve the mystery of Stucky’s disappearance-Canada has now legalized bestiality.
Stucky is probably in Nova Scotia rooming with you know who and chasing bears out on the ice.
https://archive.fo/D33R8