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They Didn't Call Him 'Ping-Pong' For Nothing
Topic Started: Oct 29 2016, 03:05 AM (85 Views)
Catseye
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It was a story straight out of the Cold War, or a John le Carre novel. Mikhail Lesin, 57, former press minister to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead last November in a Dupont Circle hotel room. His body was beat up. There had to be some foul play involved, right?

No. That's according to Washington's chief medical examiner and federal authorities, who released a statement Friday on the death nearly a year after it occurred. Their inquiry found Lesin died because he was on a days-long bender that left him dead on the floor of his room at The Dupont Circle Hotel.

"Based on the evidence, including video footage and witness interviews, Mr. Lesin entered his hotel room on the morning of Nov. 4 . . . after days of excessive consumption of alcohol and sustained the injuries that resulted in his death while alone in his hotel room," said a statement issued by the chief federal prosecutor in Washington. Lesin "died as a result of blunt force injuries to his head, with contributing causes being blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities, which were induced by falls amid acute ethanol intoxication."

The statement should throw water on conspiracy theories that Lesin was killed by the Kremlin.

I know I'm convinced. :yes:

Toward the end of the story, this one-sentence aside: "Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB officer who began informing to British intelligence, was murdered in London in the first-ever case of nuclear assassination when radioactive polonium-210 was found in his tea."

Those wacky Russians!

Go here for the rest of the story, which is the first of many, so not as long as the right-hand scroll thingie suggests:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/28/prosecutor-putins-former-press-secretary-died-in-d-c-hotel-because-he-was-drunk/

Edited by Catseye, Oct 29 2016, 03:55 AM.
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George K
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Lesin "died as a result of blunt force injuries to his head, with contributing causes being blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities, which were induced by falls amid acute ethanol intoxication."
Uh huh.
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I had a close friend who died of blunt trauma from the head brought on by intoxication (she fell down the stairs). But "neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities?

Did he know Hillary?
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