Richard Ruzika, Ex-Goldman Commodities Trader, Dies at 53

Richard Ruzika, the former commodities chief at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has died after a stroke following knee surgery last month. He was 53.

He died yesterday at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut, Joe Howley, his business partner and family spokesman, said in a telephone interview. He had been in intensive care since April 22 when a blood clot caused the stroke, three days after surgery on his left knee at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, Howley said.