Topic: Ivan Boesky
AP News | 2009-12-29 19:54:38
<div id="subtitle">Morris Lasker, judge who sat in NYC and Boston and sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison, dies</div><div><p>Morris Lasker, the judge who sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison in a 1980s insider trading scandal and helped eliminate horrid conditions in New York City jails, has died. He was ...
BusinessWeek | 2009-10-30 16:02:42
GALLEON'S DOWNFALL
Profiting from insider info has plagued stock markets from time immemorial. But the bust of Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of hedge fund Galleon Group, for allegedly trafficking in ill-gotten information, harks back to what might be called the Golden Age of insider trading, when Ivan Boesky stalked the Street in the 1980s. Rajaratnam and five others, including ...
