Ivan Boesky, who reached the pinnacle of fame and fortune as a high-flying Wall Street arbitrageur in the 1980s only to be exposed as a cheat in the insider-trading scandal that defined the era ...
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 in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.