Wallance, a partner at the law firm Kaye Scholer and former chief litigation counsel to Kidder Peabody.

FORBES: Could Municipal Bonds Be the Next Financial Titanic?

Hutton, Salomon Brothers and Kidder Peabody did so because the competition roasted them.

ECONOMIST: UnfulPhilled

Tilton spent two decades surrounded by men while working at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer, Kidder Peabody and Amroc Investments.

FORBES: Lynn Tilton: The Wild Woman of Wall Street

In February of 1987, he brought charges of insider trading against two Kidder, Peabody executives.

NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

But the last time he ran an investment bank (Kidder, Peabody), he presided over a disastrous bond-trading scandal.

ECONOMIST: Citigroup

Giuliani had his agents burst into Kidder, Peabody, throw Richard Wigton up against the wall and handcuff him.

NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

Previously, he held senior management positions in the equity and equity derivative departments of Bear Stearns, Nomura and Kidder, Peabody in both London and New York.

FORBES: How The Harvard And Yale Endowment Models Changed To Avoid A Repeat Of 2009

Green, 55, has managed money using this strategy since 1980, after he left a career at Kidder, Peabody and then Goldman Sachs to found fund-sponsor Westchester Capital in Valhalla, N.

FORBES: M&A for the Little Guy

That at least like Kidder, Peabody seems to be no more.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street