There are few figures who typified Wall Street excess more than Ivan Boesky. A bold, brash trader and financier who made millions betting on tips gathered through insider trading, Boesky would go ...

Ivan Boesky, who went to prison and paid a record $100 million fine for a sprawling insider-trading scandal, becoming a symbol of extravagance and corruption on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87.

(JTA) — Ivan Boesky, a financier whose role in an illegal insider trading scheme in the go-go 1980s sent shockwaves through a Jewish community to which he had been a generous donor, died Monday.

Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Portrait of a smiling Ivan Boesky, an American financier and expert in risk arbitrage. He would ... [+] later be convicted of illegal insider trading.