Prosecutors charged Peizer, who worked under Milken in the 1980s, with illegally avoiding losses by selling about $20 million ...

Michael Milken has been out of prison for 30 years. Getty Images. Neither called the Milken prosecution a mistake, mind you, yet years later as they look back with the benefit of time and ...

A protege of former junk bond king Michael Milken was sentenced on Monday to 3-1/2 years in prison for insider trading at a ...

Michael Milken is a philanthropist and chair of the Milken Institute. He joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1969 and traded in high-yield bonds, which earned him the nickname "junk bond king." ...

News about Michael R. Milken, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Michael Milken (left) made history by creating the high yield or junk bond market back in the 1980s. It’s where he earned the moniker “Junk Bond King.” Adam Winnick has been quietly making a ...

Michael Milken speaks at the Milken Institute's Global Conference in May 2022. A childhood friend, one of his attorneys in his 1980s-era security fraud case, penned a book about his prosecution.

Then there’s Michael Milken, the former “junk bond king” from the infamous “decade of greed.” If there were a Mount Rushmore of white-collar crime, all three men might have a place.