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Ivan Frederick Boesky (/ ˈ b oʊ s k i /; [1] March 6, 1937 – May 20, 2024) was a convicted criminal and an American stock trader who was infamous for his prominent role in an insider trading scandal in the mid-1980s. [2]
On Friday October 16, 2009, Raj Rajaratnam was arrested by the FBI and accused of conspiring with others in insider trading in several publicly traded companies. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara put the total profits in the scheme at over $60 million, telling a news conference it was the largest hedge fund insider trading case in United States history.
The public successes of the venture capital industry in the 1970s and early 1980s (e.g., DEC, Apple, Genentech) gave rise to a major proliferation of venture capital investment firms. From just a few dozen firms at the start of the decade, there were over 650 firms by the end of the 1980s, each searching for the next major "home run".
A massive insider trading case brought by the SEC revealed that some people working for SAC Capital routinely skirted the rules surrounding non-public information and allowed them to bag big ...
1.2 In the 1970s – R&D and finance. 1.3 Kidder and the 1980s insider trading scandal. 1.4 1994 bond trading scandal. 1.5 September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Ivan Boesky, the infamous insider trader whose name became synonymous with financial greed and helped inspire the fictional character Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film “Wall Street,” has died. He ...
"A Raid on Wall Street" Time magazine article describing Martin Siegel's involvement in the insider trading scandals of the 1980s; Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal, by Jeff Madrick, Beard Books, 2003. Retrieved March 10, 2019. ISBN 978-1587982170
Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.