OKC Thunder part-owner dies in car crash one day after indictment
By Dan Devine | Yahoo Sports
Mar 2, 2016
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Capt. Paco Balderrama of the Oklahoma City Police Department told reporters that (Aubrey) McClendon's 2013 Chevy Tahoe went "left of center, traveling at a high rate of speed," and collided into an embankment wall of an overpass...

The crash came one day after a federal grand jury indicted McClendon was indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice and charged with conspiring to rig bidding oil and natural gas leases in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act between 2007 and 2012, when he served as CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, the company that since 2011 has held the naming rights to the arena in which the Thunder play. Under scrutiny over mixing of personal and corporate finances, McClendon stepped down as Chesapeake's CEO in April 1, 2013; the next day, he founded American Energy Partners, another large private oil and natural gas company.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged that McClendon "orchestrated a conspiracy between two large oil and gas companies to not bid against each other for the purchase of certain oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma," suppressing prices paid to leaseholders and putting "profits ahead of the interests of leaseholders entitled to competitive bids for oil and gas rights on their land." The violations with which McClendon was charged carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals.

He denied the U.S. Department of Justice's claims on Tuesday.