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  • They kidnapped a fortune, but this crime didn't pay - captors' bungling leads to freedom, arrests

    01/31/2003 6:35:01 AM PST · by MeekOneGOP · 2 replies · 199+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jan | Associated Press Staff
    They kidnapped a fortune, but this crime didn't pay Wealthy captive's cool, captors' bungling leads to freedom, arrests 01/31/2003 Associated Press GREENWICH, Conn. - Three weeks ago, one of the richest men in America was abducted from a parking garage in this wealthy New York suburb after leaving work at his $5 billion hedge fund. The kidnappers were clearly out of their league. Authorities said Edward Lampert's abductors were from crime-ridden New Haven neighborhoods, a world away from Greenwich. Two had drug convictions; one was an eighth-grade dropout who, his lawyer says, can't read or write. The man they...