Raymond Dalio is the owner of Bridgewater Associates Hedge Fund, the largest in the world with assets estimated at $135+ billion. Dalio is personally worth over $20 billion. James Comey was Bridgewater's general counsel just prior to rejoining the DOJ as the head of the FBI in late 2013.

On Thursday, Dalio's 42 old son was killed when his Audi crashed into a Verizon store in a strip mall and it exploded. Sounds like the hallmarks of a hit if you ask me, and looking at the crash pictures I find it odd that the car precisely hit the front doors of the Verizon store (not off to the side), landing inside the store. See photos of the crash scene here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9070051/Son-wealthy-philanthropists-Ray-Barbara-Dalio-killed-car-crashes-Verizon-store.html

Note that the son had worked at his father's firm and also owned his own company worth millions.

Verizon Connection

In looking for clues about motive for this death, I learned that the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates and long-time Dalio colleague, T. Britton Harris, was also the CEO of Verizon Investment Management, a Verizon Communications' employee benefit trust. BINGO. After leaving Bridgewater, Harris took the CEO position for one of the largest pension funds in the US, Teachers Retirement Systems of Texas. In this role, he invested heavily in one of Bridgewater's newer investment funds "Fair Weather".

So crashing the car into a Verizon store could have been a message to confirm a "hit".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Britton_Harris_IV

Possible Revenge Motive

In July this year, it was revealed that Bridgewater Associates lost in arbitration a lawsuit where they accused former employees of stealing trade secrets when they left the firm to open up their own hedge fund. The reason this became public is that Bridgewater failed to pay the $2 million legal fees of the accused, as ordered by the judge. Bridgewater was found to have manufactured evidence to accuse the former employees -- with the purported motive to tie them up in court and bankrupt them. Seems like this isn't the first time they've done this either. Zero Hedge covered the story, and muses if James Comey had a hand in the strategy, because it has all the earmarks of the fake Russia investigation on President Trump.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bridgewater-manufactured-false-evidence-crush-potential-competitors-and-was-jim-comey

Note that in the story, we find that two other Billionaires provided $40 mmm seed money to fund the new hedge fund started by the former Bridgewater Associates. Could a hit have been made on Dalio's son as revenge for this lawsuit and possibly other cases? Maybe.

China Connection

Recently, Raymond Dalio gave $10 million to China to fight CoronaVirus. Interesting. His fund also invests in China. And Dalio has made many public statements that are very pro-China. Could this also lead to a motive? Maybe, but as yet nothing has emerged to indicate what that motive might be.