Ivan Boesky, the financier who gave birth to the “greed is good” mantra before going to prison in one of the biggest Wall Street insider trading scandals of the 1980s, has died in La Jolla at ...

Ivan Boesky, a one-time Wall Street titan-turned convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film "Wall Street," has died at the age of 87. Though he denied ever saying ...

Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.