"British Bill Gates" McClinchey held a party on his own yacht in the Mediterranean some time ago to celebrate his successful escape from the 13-year lawsuit with HP.
The news said that his yacht had sunk in a storm! He was also drowned, along with Jonathan Bruno, the chairman of Morgan Stanley.
These two were key figures in selling a fake British company called Autonomy to HP for $11 billion in 2012. Not long after the sale, the company went bankrupt and liquidated, causing HP to lose face and tens of billions of dollars. Then came the lawsuit that lasted for more than a decade.
McLinch spent a huge amount of money to hire a team of lawyers, and made arrangements and maneuvered around, and he was finally acquitted not long ago, so there was this yacht celebration party.
Knowing that the U.S. military was behind HP, they still didn't keep a low profile, thinking that everything would be fine as long as they won the lawsuit, but in the end they were implicated.
And on the same day as the yacht incident, another co-defendant in the fraud case, Vice President of Finance Chamberlain, who did not attend the party that day, was also hit and killed by a car while out jogging.
