Ivan Boesky
4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2020 by Joel Greenblatt · said 23 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Richard Sandler (21), Tom Steyer (1), Joel Greenblatt (1)
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2024 21 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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Nov 23, 2020
Six broken deals in 1986 slashed Gotham's returns from 80% to 30%
“I had in my portfolio five or six merger deals that were going on, whether I had a piece of a security or I had some iteration of it, and I thought that was diversity. In my portfolio, but it turned out it was all the same bet. You know, is the financing going…”
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Sandler: Judge assessed market damage from Michael Milken's violations at zero
“Interesting enough, when the judge assessed the economic damage to the marketplace from everything Michael pled to, included on the three counts that related to Bosque, that the total economic effect of these violations was zero. Not one penny was lost.”
Mar 4, 2024 neutral
Sandler: Ivan Boesky did very little trading with Drexel Burnham Lambert
“Ivan Boski was probably the most revered and respected risk arbitrageur on Wall Street. He had accounts with every firm. In fact, he did very little trading with Drexel. He was probably the largest equity buyer of securities of stocks at the time for any firm …”
Mar 4, 2024 negative
Sandler: Milken pled to violations never previously criminally prosecuted
“We actually found things to plead to, none of which had ever been subject to criminal prosecution before, many of which hadn't probably even been enforced as regulatory violations before, but we found things that he could admit to.”