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Joseph Rago, Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter, found dead in Manhattan home at 34
2017-07-24
Wall Street Journal reporter Joseph Rago, 34, was found dead at his Manhattan home Thursday, July 20, 2017.

Joseph Rago, who wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials for the Wall Street Journal, was found dead at his home in Manhattan. He was 34-years-old.

Rago was found by police at 7:40 p.m. Thursday after he didn't show up at work, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Police said they found no visible signs of trauma and that the cause of death would be determined by the city medical examiner’s office.

“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm the death of Joseph Rago, a splendid journalist and beloved friend,” Paul Gigot, editor of the Journal's editorial page, said. “Joe and his family are in our thoughts and prayers, and we will be celebrating his work in Saturday's paper.”

Rago won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011. The prize committee praised his “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Rago joined the paper as an intern in 2005.
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#12  TW, Abbot Labs now owns the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in Russia, so they can effectively outsource their domestic manufacturing for less expense and import foreign generics without FDA inspection or import tariffs. The 'all cash' transaction probably paid Bill's speaking fee.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-24 13:44  

#11  My first thought was "Arkancide?"
Posted by: Barbara   2017-07-24 13:06  

#10   Yes! I guessed some of you may join some dots when I posted the link up

I did wonder, Bright Pebbles. But I rely on Rantburgers to explain the many things I don't know enough about..
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-24 11:34  

#9  At this point, what with all the democrat related deaths, I'm wondering if this might be the work of a or several deranged serial killer(s)?

Once is suspicious, twice is not a coincidence, three or more is a conspiracy!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-24 10:46  

#8  Strange, I couldn't find Rago on the Clinton or Obama Death Pool.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-24 08:15  

#7  No, it was the Clinton Flu.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-07-24 07:20  

#6  Yes! I guessed some of you may join some dots when I posted the link up.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-07-24 07:19  

#5  Um, durgs?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-07-24 07:14  

#4  Vanity Posted on 7/22/2017, 9:54:47 PM by TigerClaws

Wall Street Journal writer Joseph Rago found dead in his apartment .

He was reportedly investigating Hillary’s involvement in the purchase of Russian drug company Veropharm by Abbot Labs at a time in 2014 when sanctions against Russia would have prevented the sale. The purchase was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories. Hillary has ties to both Abbot Labs and Kew Garden Hills LLC.

Critical to note about Abbott Laboratories acquiring Veropharm, this report explains, is that it was accomplished on 12 December 2014—which was 9 months from the March 2014 Obama regimes sanctions against Russia prohibiting such company takeovers—and that only someone with Hillary Clinton’s power and lust for money could make happen.

To how this takeover was completed in order to evade the Obama regime sanctions against Russia, this report details, was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories.

Handling this takeover transaction, this report continues, was the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital—who are most to be noted for their having paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech he gave before their top executives in Moscow.

Posted by: Tarzan Glaith9189   2017-07-24 04:37  

#3  'Bait and Sketch' at YouTube.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-24 01:38  

#2  Rago won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for a series of editorials about the Affordable Care Act, which were praised as being “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”

“No matter where you fall in the debate of health care reform, the arguments advanced by Joseph Rago in his series of editorials in The Wall Street Journal were impossible to ignore,” the judges noted. “Not paying attention to these editorials was not an option for policymakers.”

Rago’s last editorial, a criticism of Republicans’ failure to repeal ‘Obamacare’ and replace it with a better plan, ran Wednesday.
Emphasis added.
Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-24 01:05  

#1  More than a little controversy concerning this fellow's passing.

Interesting story on Rago from the WSJ.

Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-24 00:30  

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