Flash from the past
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Ivan F. Boesky, Rogue Trader in 1980s Wall Street Scandal, Dies at 87
An inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the movie “Wall Street,” he made a fortune from insider trading before his downfall brought a crashing end to a decade of greed.
Those were interesting days, when Wall Street money exploded to previously unheard-of levels and newly-minted multi-millionaires flooded into Greenwich, transforming its culture and, of more immediate notice, its housing market.
I won’t say that change was for the better, but change it did, and Boesky, who himself stayed in Westchester, was one of its most prominent symbols.
