He communicated exclusively through notes slipped under the hotel room door, and a small group of staffers controlled his fortune by controlling the flow of those notes.
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Factions developed in this group, and eventually one side - the side that Peloquin worked for - decided they needed to take physical possession of Hughes. So Peloquin was tasked with kidnapping him.
On Thanksgiving evening, Peloquin made his move- sending a team into the hotel to physically bundle Hughes up, strap him into a chair, and bring him down the back stairs into a waiting car.
The INTERTEL team sent Hughes to the airport, and flew him to the Caribbean, where they set him up in another hotel penthouse designed to look exactly like the one he had come from. Now Peloquin’s faction controlled Hughes, the flow of under the door notes, and his billion dollar empire.
Peloquin, I should note, described this as a rescue rather than a kidnapping. He justified it to me because he believed Hughes actually sides with his faction. But how could anybody have really known?
Anyway, long story! There’s more in the book. But if you are an eccentric billionaire, you might want to keep a careful eye on your security team. -30-
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