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...almost from scratch and amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $500 million, is attracting plenty of attention these days -- much of it in the form of official probes. For 18 months, a federal grand jury in Manhattan has been investigating Milken and other executives of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, reportedly on charges that they helped Ivan Boesky carry out his insider-trading schemes. Milken and his employer have denied any such wrongdoing...
...civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. "I do not want it to be done. Why don't we pay you for all the copies you would have sold -- if you had written it," Milken suggested to Bruck after she began working on the project in 1986, according to an extract of the manuscript obtained...
Margaret A. Burnham of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute called the show "an important addition to the public discussion taking place in this bicentennial year, it raises questions whether promises of equality have been real with respect to Black Americans...
...Burnham said the idea for the program came from a group of lawyers and professors who met at Harvard in October for a conference on "Constitution and Race...
...home, it is Milken who is being pursued. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan reportedly issued a new round of subpoenas in the long-running insider-trading probe of Milken and Drexel Burnham, allegedly implicated by Ivan Boesky in 1986. Milken and his firm have denied any wrongdoing...