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unusual facts about junk bond



James B. Stewart

These writings led to the publishing of his best-selling work of non-fiction called Den of Thieves that recounted the criminal conduct of Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and junk bond king, Michael Milken.


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Campeau Corporation

Through massive junk bond LBOs which were at their most popular in the mid 1980s, Campeau gained control of Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, owner of Bloomingdale's.

Dennis L. Montgomery

Dennis Montgomery originally worked for Warren Trepp, a former top junk bond trader for Michael Milken, at eTreppid Technologies and later partnered with Yellowstone Club founders Edra and Tim Blixseth under the banner Blxware to solicit government contracts for his spy software.

Sealy Corporation

First Boston made a bridge loan to the buy-out firm just as Drexel Burnham Lambert was running into trouble and the junk bond market was drying up, and was stuck with the loan.