I think the death was a hoax: He bought a corpse, paid for whatever
>cosmetic manipulation was necessary to fake his death, and he's now
>relaxing on some tropical island he bought (perhaps along with Whitey >Bulger).
>
>With as much money as he probably had salted away in foreign bank
>accounts, anything's possible. I know my friends at RATSC will have
>their own interesting ideas, so what do you think?
I thought the same thing. I would not be real surprised if in fact that was the case - a faked death so that he could escape.