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On 14 May 2017, 81-year-old Peter W. Smith committed suicide in a hotel near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He left a carefully prepared file of documents, including a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.
Smith had been implicated in the HIllary Clinton email scandal, where, after then-candidate Donald Trump urged Russia to find Clinton’s “lost” emails, he had assembled a team to try and locate them. Smith had a history of doing opposition research, the formal term for unflattering information that political operatives dig up about rival candidates, and had focused much of his work on the Clintons.
Smith stressed in his suicide note that his reasons were “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017" and timing related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.”
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