Aubrey McClendon, the former CEO of Chesapeak Energy, was killed in a car crash Wednesday in Oklahoma City, police are reporting.
The crash happened one day after McClendon was indicted on a charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma.
The Department of Justice said in a statement Tuesday that McClendon is suspected of orchestrating a scheme between two large energy companies, which are not named in the indictment, from December 2007 to March 2012.