According to the NY Post a former Wall Street trader who
collapsed in court after being found guilty of arson and later died committed
suicide by taking cyanide, according to an autopsy released Friday. The
Maricopa County medical examiner's office toxicology tests showed that
53-year-old Michael Marin had the poison in his system. The report also noted
an apparent suicide note emailed by Martin shortly before his death and cyanide
found in his car afterward.
After he was found guilty of arson in June, Marin put his
head in his hands and appeared to put something in his mouth. He then drank
from a sports bottle.
It was a bizarre ending to a case that began in 2009 when he
emerged from his burning Phoenix-area mansion in scuba gear. Prosecutors said he torched his home when he
couldn't keep up with the payments. Marin faced seven to 21 years in prison.
Prosecutors painted him as a desperate man who had $50 in
his bank account in July 2009, down from $900,000 a year earlier. He also had a
monthly mortgage payment on the mansion of $17,250 and an upcoming balloon
payment of $2.3 million...
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