Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed. He helped inspire Hollywood’s fictional financial mogul Gordon Gekko and his greed-is-good mantra. He cut a deal to cooperate with the feds and help ...
Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. His daughter ...
Boesky, who partly inspired the Gordon Gekko character in the 1987 movie "Wall Street," was at his peak considered a genius at risk arbitrage, the business of speculating in takeover stocks, and his ...