Ivan Boesky
Financial Crime / Insider Trading
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Ivan Boesky Ivan Boesky was one of the most successful arbitrage traders of the 1980s and a central figure in the insider trading scandal that shook Wall Street during that decade, having built a fortune estimated at $200 million by trading on non-public information obtained from investment bankers and other insiders. He agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in 1986 and paid a then-record $100 million penalty, providing testimony that led to the prosecution of junk bond financier Michael Milken and others. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison and permanently barred from the securities industry.
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Ivan Boesky was one of the most successful arbitrage traders of the 1980s and a central figure in the insider trading scandal that shook Wall Street during that decade, having built a fortune estimated at $200 million by trading on non-public information obtained from investment bankers and other insiders. He agreed to cooperate with federal authorities in 1986 and paid a then-record $100 million penalty, providing testimony that led to the prosecution of junk bond financier Michael Milken and others. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison and permanently barred from the securities industry.
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Born in Detroit, United States
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