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Inside the life of Michael Milken, the pardoned former financier who made $500 million a year in the 1980s before being sent to prison by Rudy Giulian
On February 18, President Donald Trump granted clemency to seven individuals who had previously been convicted of white-collar crimes and commuted the sentence of four others. Michael Milken, a prominent philanthropist and former Wall Street financier, known in the 1980s as the "junk bond king," was among those pardoned. He spent several decades building a prominent career before being indicted on insider trading charges and spending 22 months in prison. In the 1990s and afterward, Milken has donated significant amounts to charity and currently has a net worth of $3.7 billion. Take a look inside his life. Born to ... (full story)