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16 Jun 2008, 6:01 am
For a thorough review of the mendacity of the Keating prosecutions, pick up a copy of Dan Fischel's book, Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial Revolution (HarperCollins 1995). [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 5:13 am
In that greed-is-good decade, Minkow wanted to be just like Michael Milken, the junk bond pioneer. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 8:09 pm
The late 1970s and early 1980s were, after all, the era of Michael Milken, Gordon Gecko, and the relatively unsupervised expense account.] [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 5:44 am
Milken clearly helped [...] [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 5:15 am
That is a record that eclipses even what Michael Milken paid in the most notorious financial fraud case of all time.'' As we have discussed here, that's not entirely an accurate description of what happened. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 12:57 pm
Last year I was riffing an off-the-cuff account of the career of Michael Milken when I remarked on how Ted Turner had paid him a "tip" of (as I said) "something like two million. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 8:21 pm
As an aside, the expert witness who was improperly excluded in the Nacchio trial -- Daniel Fischel -- was the author of the book that exposed the true nature of, and motive behind, Rudolph Giuliani's prosecution of Michael Milken. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 6:30 am
And taking a contrarian view, Larry Ribstein (via Bainbridge) says an appropriate comparison for Lerach would be to Michael Milken (Drexel Burnham) or Jeff Skilling (Enron) -- but in the good sense. [read post]
24 Dec 2007, 8:44 am
And it was Michael Milken who taught us that anything--anything--is a bargain at the right price.An earlier generation of lawyers was brought up to believe that this sort of thing is unethical conduct, maintenance and champerty. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 10:05 pm
Of course, part of that popular legacy is Giuliani's highly-publicized prosecution of Michael Milken and the related destruction of Drexel Burnham Lambert. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 8:50 am
In the early 1990s, former junk-bond king Michael Milken contributed $900 million to settle civil actions related to the government’s insider-trading investigations. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 11:22 am
This is, after all, the guy who railroaded Michael Milken, one of the great crimes against the market of the 1980's. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 5:29 am
Not since Michael Milken’s Predators’ Ball in the 1980’s have so many of Wall Street’s bold-faced names dared to mingle together. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 11:05 pm
You can usually count on Michael Milken making an interesting observation or two whenever interviewed about markets, particualarly the housing market: "The idea that any loan against real estate is a good loan has never been a rational thought. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 5:14 am
The shockingly fast freeze-over of these markets reminds me of a maxim of Michael Milken, that once-in-a-generation genius of innovation in fixed income markets, who had this to say about liquidity: "Liquidity is an illusion. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 12:54 am
Hedge fund investors, "including the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Rupert Johnson, George Soros and George Lucas, Michael Bloomberg and Michael Milken" don't need the SEC to hold their hand or to protect them. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 8:56 am
Perhaps folks like Lewis Libby, Martha Stewart, Lil' Kim, Michael Milken, Paris Hilton and other high-profile "ex-criminals" who have poured into the community can help bring attention to this issue. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 5:14 am
Clifford Chance took on climate change by attempting to do for carbon and emissions trading what Michael Milken and Drexel did for junk bonds: Standardize the disclosure and documentation to make the market more liquid. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 9:46 pm
Suddenly, in stepped an unknown federal prosecutor from New York - one Rudolph Guiliani - who single-handedly closed Drexel and jailed the head of its bond unit, Michael Milken. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 2:05 pm
If I were just coming out of a coma, my money would be on Michael Milken. [read post]
