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 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 Boesky, who partly inspired the Gordon Gekko character in the movie Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. The former financier was a central figure in insider trading scandals of the 1980s.