El Paso Corp. exec Charles Dana Rice, apparent suicide
Posted: Monday, June 3rd, 2002 5:45 pmThe treasurer of El Paso Corp., one of several energy trading companies facing questions about accounting practices, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to his head in an apparent suicide at his Houston townhome, police said Monday.
There was no immediate indication the death Sunday of Charles Dana Rice was directly related to the company’s troubles. According to industry executives, he was known to suffer from some health problems. …
Another energy executive, J. Clifford Baxter, a former vice chairman at Enron Corp., shot himself in his car not far from his home in a southwest Houston suburb Jan. 25, after that company, also based in Houston, collapsed in an accounting scandal.
Rice, 47, was a senior vice president at El Paso, where he worked for 25 years. … Read full obituary
