Word: milken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skate, like forlorn lovers, on Bright's empty ice for two more weeks, hoping desperately that the NCAA tournament committee still had the Christmas spirit. But the boys who dole out the tournament bids (including BU's Jack Parker) had about as much St. Nick in themselves as Michael Milken...
Then there are the books. Five. Then the clients: Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Penthouse, Frank Snepp, John Landis, John DeLorean, David Crosby, Patricia Hearst, the Tison brothers, various death row inmates, Rabbi Meir Kahane....There are more...
...death row--the boys we were portraying in the movie--we just won their case this part year. That case cost a fortune to pursue and we had no resources to do that, not even expenses. So I used the fees that I earned from Von Bulow and Milken and Helmsley to pay for these boys on death...
Tattle when you're a third-grader, and you'll get a stern parental reprimand. Tattle when you're an imprisoned junk-bond trader, and you'll get time off. That's the lesson celebrity financier and felon Michael Milken was taught by Federal Judge Kimba Wood, who reduced his prison sentence by one year for cooperatively testifying against former colleagues. For the past 17 months, Milken has been a model inmate at a minimum-security California prison. He can expect to return home to his family next March...
While corporate insiders have rarely faced criminal charges a la Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, observers expect that to change. Says Robert Lamb, professor of finance at New York University: "We may soon see corporate executives being carried away in handcuffs...