The Great Wall Street Escape You've Never Heard OfWe’ve all heard plenty about white collar crime and dirty investors doing big time. But the case of Eddie Lampert is something of its own story. In 2003, ESL Investment’s billionaire hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert was kidnapped at gunpoint by three men in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was taken to a hotel and held for ransom. The men told Lampert they had been hired to kidnap and kill him for $1 million. Lampert was forced to record a message for his wife and was held captive for 39 hours. But Lampert, using the gift of gab, convinced his kidnappers to release him by telling them he would pay them off with a stashed $40,000—all they had to do was let him go and show up to a Wendy’s trash can a few days later. Obviously, these kidnappers had never heard of supply and demand. After Lampert’s release, the FBI caught the kidnappers after an associate used Lampert’s credit card to order a pizza.