Yes, for Ivan Boesky, greed was good — and it worked for him. He amassed a net worth of $280 million (about $818 million in today’s currency) and a trading portfolio valued at $3 billion ...

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 the ...

Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be attached to him until much later. Ivan ruled as Russia’s first-ever czar for nearly four decades.

He then digitally altered the face of said contributor until they matched Ivan’s dimensions. “The final bust was a combination of all this data,” said Moraes.