Assemblyman Bill Nojay, who
died by suicide Friday morning, had been scheduled to appear Friday in
U.S. District Court to face fraud - related charges connected to a trust fund he handled as an attorney, according to sources familiar with the case.
While in many families it would be big news if one member was to up and visit one of the most dangerous places on earth - a place where Mom had previously been shot at (though she always said they were shooting at the tires, not at her), where she had met with the military leader Ahmed Shah Massoud (who was later assassinated
by two
suicide bombers), where the Taliban still controlled much of the country, and where more than two hundred members of the
U.S. and Coalition forces would
die before the year was out - for our family it was business as usual.