Infamous Wall Street stock trader Ivan Boesky has passed away in his sleep peacefully, his family has confirmed. Boesky, who made a $200 million fortune in the Wall Street in the early 1980s ...

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.

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.

The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s. (JTA) — Ivan Boesky, a financier whose role in an illegal insider trading ...