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Billionaire JP Morgan Board Member Who Previously Served On Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board Dies In Car Crash
By Anthony Scott Jun. 26, 2023 8:40 pm168 Comments
James Crown, a longtime JP Morgan board member, died in a tragic car crash on Sunday in Colorado.
Crown, who also served as the chairman of the Aspen Institute, died after he got in a car crash when he hit a barrier at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Colorado.
Besides being notable in the business world, Crown also dabbled in the political realm.
Crown’s involvement in politics stems from his longtime friendship with former President Barrack Obama.
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The Chicago Sun Times reported Crown was the Illinois co-finance chair for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
In 2014 during his second term, Obama appointed Crown to his Intelligence Advisory Board.
Per The Hill:
Billionaire and philanthropist James Crown died Sunday in a car crash while on a racetrack in Colorado.
The Colorado Sun reported that Crown, 70, died Sunday after his vehicle hit a barrier on a racetrack at Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colo., Sunday, which was also his birthday. According to the Colorado Sun, the coroner ruled that Crown’s death was an accident and that “multiple blunt force trauma” was evident as the autopsy remains pending.
Crown had also served on JPMorgan’s board since the early 1990s and was also a board director at General Dynamics. Crown, who lived in Chicago, was also the managing partner of Aspen Skiing Co. based in Colorado, according to CNN.
In recent months JP Morgan has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In June, JP Morgan agreed to a $290 million settlement with Epstein victims for conducting business with convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein despite him being flagged as a “high-risk client.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/billionaire-jp-morgan-board-member-who-previously-served/
His birthday?
Tipple a glass or two?
3 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years.
The cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions
In late May, Sarasota County, Florida, health officials confirmed they had identified a case of locally transmitted malaria. In mid-June, they confirmed the second. On June 23, Texas joined in: its state health department announced it had confirmed a case of local malaria transmission in Cameron County.
This is all highly unusual. The US hasn’t documented a locally acquired malaria case in 20 years.
Although about 2,000 people infected with malaria turn up in the US health care system every year, those cases are all linked to travel outside the US. Neither those involved in the Florida cases nor the Texas case had traveled. That means in both states, the infection was acquired within US borders.
Experts say the three cases shouldn’t warrant panic about widespread malaria transmission in the US. But it does warrant asking some questions, and being wary of the threat of more local transmission. Mosquitoes can infect multiple people before a full-on outbreak is even identified — so more cases could be out there.
Even if this turns out not to be widespread, it’s a good reminder: Malaria could make a comeback in the US, and we — and our public health infrastructure — ought to be prepared. This is especially true as a changing climate and
https://www.vox.com/science/2023/6/23/23771154/malaria-transmission-florida-texas-mosquitoes-risk-prevention-anopheles