More Info Comes to Light About McClendon’s Last Days/Last Moments

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We've spotted several new (to us) bits of information about Aubrey McClendon that may have bearing on his state of mind prior to the fiery crash that took his life on Wednesday. We now know who the likely second party was in the Dept. of Justice's (DOJ) indictment of Aubrey on a single count of conspiracy. As we've pointed out from the beginning of the DOJ's indictment, by definition you can't have a conspiracy with just one person. You need at least two people. The problem was/is, the DOJ hasn't indicted anyone else--which made this a witch hunt, not justice. You don't get to say just one person is guilty in a conspiracy. We also have information about the state of Aubrey's new business venture--American Energy Partners. It seems he was losing control of all the subsidiary companies spun off from AEP, and that his biggest backer, Energy & Minerals Group, was about to hang Aubrey out to dry. It may have seemed like with the indictment and his new venture slipping away and with old friends turning on him, that Aubrey's world was closing in. First up, let's begin our coverage with eyewitness accounts of the crash...

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