Prominent Bridgewater Associates executive Bruce Steinberg and his family were among 10 Americans killed when a charter plane crashed into a mountain in Costa Rica on Sunday.
The news was first reported by the New York Post yesterday. Bruce and Irene Steinberg and their sons, Matthew, 13, William, 18, and Zachary, 19 were all aboard the single-engine Cessna when it smashed into a mountainous region in the Guancaste province while en route to the capital city of San José, officials said.
“The Bridgewater family lost Bruce Steinberg (a senior investor at Bridgewater and a wonderful man) and his family,” Ray Dalio, the founder of the Westport, Connecticut-based hedge fund, said in a Facebook statement on Monday. “Right now, we are each processing this devastating tragedy in our own ways. At this time I will be devoting my attentions to doing this and helping others.”
“Their children would have changed the world,” family friend Robin Shainberg told The Post. “They were just the most lovely family – the most giving, caring, wonderful friends to have.”
The site of a plane crash in Punta Islita, Costa Rica on Dec. 31.
Bruce Steinberg, 50, was a graduate of Columbia Business School, and Irene Steinberg, 51, was active with the UJA-Federation of New York. In 2015, she chaired the annual campaign kickoff of the organization’s Scarsdale Women’s Philanthropy group, according to the New York Post.
Bruce Steinberg’s sister mourned the loss of her brother, sister-in-law and “3 amazing nephews” in a Facebook post Sunday night.
“We are in utter shock and disbelief right now,” Tamara Steinberg Jacobson wrote, thanking those who were reaching out to her and her devastated parents.
Susan Adler, a Scarsdale neighbor, called it “a very sad situation . . . unbelievable.”
The Steinbergs were active in philanthropy and the local Jewish community, Rabbi Jonathan Blake of the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale wrote in a statement on its Facebook page. They were involved with the UJA-Federation of New York, the AJC Jewish advocacy organization and Seeds of Peace. They also were members of the Sunningdale Country Club.
“All the Steinbergs will be remembered by their Scarsdale and the temple community as among the most devoted to the welfare of the Jewish community and the beauty of the Jewish tradition,” Blake said. “They will be deeply missed.”
Another US family that perished in the crash was identified as Mitchell and Leslie Weiss — both doctors from Florida — and their daughter, Hannah, a 19-year-old student at Columbia University.
Mitchell, 52, was a radiology specialist in Clearwater who went to medical school in Philadelphia. Leslie, 50, was a pediatrician who practiced in Tampa.
The other Americans killed were Amanda Rae Geissler and Gene Wing Szeto. Their hometowns were not immediately available.
The plane’s crew members were identified as Juan Manuel Retana and Emma Ramos Calderon.
Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, who held office from 2010 to 2014, tweeted that Retana was her cousin.
“Our beloved cousin dies as part of the crew of the plane crash in Guanacaste,” she wrote. “Strength to your children and siblings and peace to your remains. You will remain in our dear heart #JuanManuelRetana.”
Authorities in Costa Rica said strong winds were reported in the area of the crash and were being examined as a possible factor in what happened, according to the Associated Press.
“No possibility can be left out for certain,” the AP quoted Michael Soto, deputy director of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation agency, as saying. “We have two aspects: The principal one would be some weather condition and if there was a mechanical issue.”
In another crash involving a small aircraft, Compass Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Richard Cousins and four members of his close family were killed when a seaplane crashed into the Hawkesbury River in Sydney, Bloomberg reported.
Another Kazharian bites the dust.
I thought the article said 10 “Americans” were killed?!
Good start, what with the new year and all, but for US to achieve an effective total we’re all gonna have to wear hard hats and have sore necks from lookin up!
Day 2 , 2018.
I’d have to say we’re off to a good start.
Just a plane crash at this point, but if the cause of it turns out to be mechanical failure, you have to wonder if one or more members of this family weren’t about to betray some Kazarian secrets. (a la Ben Freedman)
Their philanthropic work within the Jewish community might give them the ability to “know too much”, as well as being evidence of having a conscience. Put the two together and you may wind up with someone who knows too much trying to expose too much truth.
(there are, and always have been Jews working on our side, and Ben Freedman is a perfect example of a high-ranking Zionist deciding to do the right thing).
A dead Blackwater executive would have been just as appreciated.
“Their children would have changed the world,”
We know.
That’s why that jew trash is better off dead.
We don’t want THEIR kind of change.
I certainly can’t afford a fancy holiday in Costa Rica…only rich Hebes can go with chartered flights. This is good news to start the year!
Never slurp Matzo while at the controls.
Stop the presses:
According to All News Pipeline, ( http://allnewspipeline.com/Julian_Assange_Cryptic_Tweet.php )
Zero Hedge reported this:
“Steinberg was an executive at a company called Bridgewater Associates, a company which James Comey spent three years as an executive at.”
But their link to the Zero Hedge article brings you to the article posted above, which doesn’t contain the quote that Pipeline printed.
But that explains the plane crash. Add ’em all to the Clinton Body Count.
And whomever wrote the quote above, Pipeline or Hedge; “which James Comey spent three years as an executive at.”…. please don’t end a sentence with a preposition. Instead, you might try “at which Comey spent three years as an executive” so you don’t sound like you just swam across the border.