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Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), [ 2 ] and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. [ 3 ]
In 1966, Boesky and his wife moved to New York where he worked for several stock brokerage companies including L.F. Rothschild and Edwards & Hanly.In 1975, he initiated his own stock brokerage company, Ivan F. Boesky & Company, with $700,000 (equivalent to $4 million in 2023) worth of start-up money from his wife's family [6] with a business plan that speculated on corporate takeovers.
Working undercover, Boesky secretly taped three conversations with Michael Milken, the so-called "junk bond king" whose work with Drexel Burnham Lambert had revolutionized the credit markets. Milken eventually pleaded guilty to six felonies and served 22 months in prison, while Boesky paid a $100 million fine and spent 20 months in a minimum ...
Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall ... other pivotal figures of the era — chief among them Michael Milken, the so-called "junk bond king," who ultimately pleaded guilty to six securities violations ...
Den of Thieves recounts the insider trading scandals involving Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and other Wall Street financiers in the United States during the 1980s, such as Robert Freeman, Terren Peizer, Dennis Levine, Lowell Milken, John A. Mulheren, Martin Siegel, Timothy Tabor, Richard Wigton, Robert Wilkis, Tony Ressler, and others.
Ivan Boesky/Michael Milken. Michael Milken was known as the “junk bond king” for his role in pioneering the industry for high-yield corporate bonds, which investors used to orchestrate ...
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.
Ivan F Boesky, the infamous Wall Street trader who inspired Michael Douglas‘s Gordon Gecko character in the movie Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.. His daughter Marianne Boesky told The ...