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Episode 7: Boesky & Milken’s Insider Trading Empire — How Greed Corrupted Wall Street
In the excess-filled 1980s, Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken became two of the most powerful men on Wall Street. One was the self-proclaimed “King of Arbitrage.” The other was the “Junk Bond King.” Together, they built a massive empire based on stolen insider information, secret payoffs, and hundreds of millions in illegal profits.
In this episode, former FBI Special Agent Kevin Barrows takes you inside one of the largest insider trading scandals in American history — a story of breathtaking ambition, moral collapse, and how the “Greed is Good” culture enabled it all.
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