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...1980s were a monument to Wall Street excess, witnessing some of the most notorious insider-trading prosecutions in history. Corporate raider Ivan Boesky - said to be an inspiration for the fictional Gordon ("Greed ... is good") Gekko, villain of the Oliver Stone film Wall Street - was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and fined $100 million in 1986 for insider trading. Financier Michael Milken, the "junk-bond king" who famously earned $550 million in 1987, avoided prosecution on similar charges by pleading guilty to other criminal counts. But the largest insider-trading conviction came two decades later, in 2007, when...
...long series of rushes from juniors Gino Gordon and Collier Winters and freshman Treavor Scales brought the ball to the one-yard line, where Scales punched it in for a touchdown...
Winters took to the air, with a 33-yard pass to sophomore Adam Chrissis—the highlight of the 79-yard drive. But once inside the 10, it was Gordon who brought the ball into the endzone nearly untouched...
...Miller brothers should provide the running back duo of junior Gino Gordon and freshman Treavor Scales with more of a challenge than Dartmouth...
Against the Big Green, the only uncertainty was which Crimson running back would amass more rushing yards; Scales, who had 120 on the day, edged out Gordon...