I'm thinking he had it easy compared to the advisor who was kidnapped and tortured by a bunch of German retirees. Or the stockbroker who was kidnapped and tortured by a client dressed in a Santa suit.
From Yahoo Finance, March 27:
A self-styled "Crypto King" who allegedly fleeced investors out of millions was kidnapped and tortured, according to explosive court documents.
Aiden Pleterski led a lavish lifestyle and owned McLaren sports cars and a Lamborghini — and even rented a plush waterfront home for $45,000 a month.
He had promised his investors healthy returns of 7%, but it all came crashing down and he ended up filing for bankruptcy.
It's believed Pleterski, who was 23 when his company went under, was abducted by disgruntled creditors.
Testimony from his father Dragan reveals:
One person that Pleterski was allowed to contact was a man called Sandeep Gupta, his landlord.
Gupta recalled receiving multiple calls late at night from Pleterski, in which he said:
Gupta told him that this would be impossible to arrange — and while he was determined not to pay any money, he wanted to engineer the situation so he didn't come to harm. On a different phone, he began to call 911.
Over the following days, the landlord worked with officers in an attempt to set up a sting meeting and ensure that Pleterski could be brought to safety.
He was later released on the understanding that he would get the cash to his kidnappers as soon as possible — and was warned that interacting with law enforcement would make his situation much, much worse.....
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The dentist:
....In a July '07 post "FBI: Goldman Sachs threat not of 'high credibility' (Off-topic)" I asked:
...2) Does anyone remember the story of the dentist who put on a Santa Claus suit, kidnapped his stockbroker and tortured him for three days with a cattle-prod, all the while screaming the names of the lousy deals the broker had put him in?I received some confirmations from folks who recognized the story but no citations. If you've got the cite, drop us a line.
When I ask this question at parties I get funny looks and solitude.
If you have any details please email....A quick Google search turns up a reference I don't recall, dated December 21 2000:
YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
Ah! Thank you, Miss or Mr. Anonymous: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan. 4,1984
Now back to those German pensioners...
German pensioners ‘kidnap and torture their investment adviser’
A group of well-to-do pensioners who lost their savings in the credit crunch staged an arthritic revenge attack and held their terrified financial adviser to ransom, prosecutors said yesterday.
The alleged kidnapping is the latest example of what is being dubbed “silver crime” — the violent backlash of pensioners who feel cheated by the world.
“As I was letting myself into my front door I was assaulted from behind and hit hard,” the financial adviser James Amburn, a 56-year-old German-American, said. “Then they bound me with masking tape until I looked like a mummy. I thought I was a dead man.”
He was freed by 40 heavily armed policemen from the counter-terrorist unit last Saturday. The frightened consultant was in his underwear, his body lacerated by wounds allegedly inflicted by angry pensioners.
It appears that two couples had entrusted Mr Amburn’s investment company with €2.4 million (£2 million), which he ploughed into Florida’s boom-and-bust property market. The properties became forfeit during the sub-prime mortgage crisis but the couples wanted their money back.
After being bundled into the boot of an Audi in the west German town of Speyer, Mr Amburn was driven southwards to Chieming, close to the Austrian border, where one of the couples Roland K, and his wife, Sieglinde, 79, had a holiday home.
The financial adviser claims he was held there in a cellar for four days almost naked, fed soup twice a day and beaten. Another couple, Gerhard F, 63, and his wife, Iris, 66, both retired doctors, allegedly helped to torture the prisoner....MORE
