Spagnoletti’s momentum sent his car veering off the highway, and it came to a stop in a thicket of tropical brush. 40-caliber handgun, shattering his windows, and four bullets hit him in the head. Someone fired at least nine shots from a. But a few minutes after Spagnoletti got onto the highway, he slowed for a backup on a bridge over a canal. The drive to his condo on palm-tree-lined Condado Beach took just 15 minutes when there wasn’t traffic. He’d flown his sister-in-law in for the party, too. His wife was waiting at home with their 6-year-old daughter. The sun was setting on another muggy San Juan day as Spagnoletti pulled out of Doral’s bland office park downtown. He’d walk through the Doral office, stopping at underlings’ desks to get up to speed on who ran what and how. At 6 feet 2 inches and about 250 pounds, with a strong Jersey accent and hands that he used to punctuate his sentences, Spagnoletti reminded his new colleagues of Tony Soprano without the menace. When the banker arrived on the island, he made a good first impression. In late 2010, Doral hired Spagnoletti, a New Jerseyan experienced in managing large banks, with orders to reduce costs and get Puerto Rican operations under control. The Wall Street investors had put up $610 million, but Doral continued to lose money, and they were losing patience. Once flush, the bank had been almost ruined by a fraud scandal, and in 2007 it was rescued by Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, and a group of hedge funds. Spagnoletti, 57, was the No. 2 executive at Doral Bank in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was June 15, 2011, the day before his wife’s birthday, and he was planning a celebration.
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That was his jealous advisors.On the day Maurice Spagnoletti was murdered, his black Lexus sedan was full of balloons. "I don't think it was his idea to have everybody bow down and worship the golden statue when the musical instruments played and it was probably not his idea to put Shadrach, Mechach and Abednego in the furnace. "He was egotistical and probably narcissistic, but I think he was easily influenced," he said. McLemore said Nebuchadnezzaar was not the imperious, self-assured king that he appeared. But we should choose the laws of God even when under duress." As born again Christians, we shouldn't go out and threaten and holler and protest when laws pose a dilemma. There are laws passed that we should obey because they are the law of the land unless they break the laws of God. "It's an example of what we're to do in the modern day. The bottom line is that the king realized their God was more powerful than him and all the gods of Babylon. They told him that they understood he was the king and to be respected, but they would be violating the laws of their God and they weren't going to do it. "Most Bible scholars believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were teenagers. "His dreams are interpreted by Daniel and we see some of the same prophecies in the Book of Daniel that are in Revelation," McLemore said. John McLemore, pastor of Belmont Baptist Church in Odessa, said Nebuchadnezzar "shows up in the most prophetic books of the Bible.
He wanted total control."Ī successor of Nebuchadnezzar's, King Darius the Mede, put Daniel in a lions' den in the sixth chapter of the Book of Daniel.
He got mad because the Hebrews wouldn't do what he wanted them to and he had the fire heated seven times hotter than it had ever been heated and then he brought them out and put in the people who had caused them to be there in the first place. "He was a powerful guy who wasn't afraid to be ruthless. "He is known outside the Biblical canon as an important king like Darius who was able to overthrow Israel and take the Hebrews into captivity," he said. Headrick said he might have been afflicted with boanthropy, which is a psychological disorder in which the person believes that he or she is a cow or an ox, according to. Noting the story in Daniel 4:25-35 about Nebuchadnezzar's abasement, the Rev. "Then he totally reversed course on what he was going to do." They have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.' "Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire and said, 'Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire. Nathan Headrick, pastor of Midland Church of God.
"The story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego has always signified to me that even the hardest-hearted person can be reached," said the Rev. Those stories are in the Book of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar is also mentioned in Second Kings, First Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther and Jeremiah.