A day after his indictment on bid-rigging charges, Aubrey McClendon, the former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., died Wednesday morning in a car crash in Oklahoma. An Oklahoma City police spokesman said the 56-year-old, also a part-owner of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, was speeding and “drove straight into the wall” when he was killed in a single-car crash.Capt. Paco Balderrama said McClendon crossed the center line, drove into a grassy area and crashed into a wall at about 9 a.m. Wednesday.”He pretty much drove right into the wall,” Balderrama said. “There was plenty of opportunity for him to correct and get back on the road but that did not occur.”Police are still investigating the single-vehicle crash, and said it was too early to say whether it was intentional. Balderrama said McClendon was not wearing a seat belt and was driving above the speed limit of 50 mph.McClendon was indicted Tuesday on a federal charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma. He was expected to turn himself in and appear before a judge at the Oklahoma City federal courthouse on Wednesday, CBS affiliate KWTV reported.The Department of Justice said in… Read full this story
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