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Still at the center of the investigation, by all accounts, are Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken, head of the investment firm's junk-bond operation. Since junk bonds, which are high-yield, high-risk securities, are often used to finance takeovers, Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees have had advance knowledge of many big deals and could have passed information to speculators like Boesky. Drexel Burnham admits that in 1986 it received a $5.3 million payment from Boesky for "advisory services." After news of the payment broke, the firm's chief executive, Frederick Joseph, steadfastly ! maintained that internal company...
Ranked just below David-Weill on the FinancialWorld roster were such eminences as George Soros, 56, president of Manhattan's Soros Fund Management ($90 million to $100 million); Richard Dennis, 38, a partner in Chicago- based C&D Commodities ($80 million); and Junk Bond King Michael Milken, 40, senior executive vice president of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm (up to $80 million). Not far behind, at $65 million or so, was J. Morton Davis, 58, chairman and president of D.H. Blair, a Manhattan investment bank that specializes in stock offerings for health-care firms...
...more beleaguered firm appears to be Drexel Burnham, the investment house with close ties to Boesky. Wall Street is restlessly waiting for the results of an SEC probe and a reported grand jury investigation into Drexel's activities, among them the highly profitable operation run by Michael Milken, the junk-bond guru. Even though no charges have been filed against Drexel, rumors have proliferated among competing firms that Drexel could conceivably face fines running into the hundreds of millions of dollars if its staff is found to have committed widespread insider trading...
...connection with the Boesky case, at least six Drexel Burnham employees, including Siegel and Junk Bond Guru Michael Milken, have been subpoenaed by the SEC, an action that does not imply guilt of any kind. Even so, Milken has reportedly hired three of the country's top criminal lawyers, Edward Bennet Williams, Arthur Liman and Martin Flumenbaum, to represent him before the SEC and in a parallel federal grand jury investigation. In December, Drexel Burnham Chief Executive Frederick Joseph publicly admitted that for a time, when Milken lined up potential buyers for takeover junk bonds, the investment bank would supply...
Drexel Burnham was not helped by the revelation that it received an undocumented $5.3 million fee from Boesky last March, which Milken's brother Lowell later averred was for "advisory services." A similar $3 million fee for "investment advisory services" went from Boesky to the Los Angeles brokerage firm Jefferies & Co., headed by Boyd Jefferies, 56. That company specialized in quietly assembling large blocks of shares for corporate raiders outside the purview of the New York Stock Exchange. In that role, Jefferies & Co. almost always had advance knowledge of any important takeover deal. Lawyers familiar with...