9780712649322 - Inside Out: The Dennis Levine Story von Levine, Dennis; Hoffer, William (4 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Uk Edition. Hardback. Inside Out. Very slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. This book is the headline-making story of one of the biggest corporate and financial dramas of our time - what really happened in the insider trading scandal that brought down Wall Street. When Dennis Levine, an orchestrator of multi-billion dollar Wall Street deals, was arrested on May 12, 1986 for insider trading, shock waves could be felt across the country, from the New York office of Ivan Boesky to the Beverly Hills office of Drexel Burnham's junk-bond king, Michael Milken. Never before had such a major player been apprehended. Levine was the first domino to fall, and Boesky and Milken would topple after him, prompting a shif of alighment of the American economy that is still being felt today. In this book, Dennis Levine speaks out for the first time, breaking the self-imposed wall of silense in place since his arrest. While others may interpret and analyze, Levine tells the story from the dead centre of the scandal. He shows what really went on during Wall Street's most secret meetings, the real stories behind some of the Street's biggest deals, and why a man like himself - one of the most powerful on Wall Street - would risk everything on inside tips. Levine takes the reader through the chaotic evolution of his dual life - from face-to-face dealings with the financial world's most famous movers and shakers, including Boesky, Milken,Ronald Pereiman, Henry Kravis, Sir James Goldsmith, Carl Icahn, and others, to secret bank acocunts in Switzerland and dummy corporations in Panama, to his ultimate downfall. For the first timne, readers will learn how Levine's arrest led the Federal prosecutors to Ivan Boesky and how Boesky, in turn, led the Feds to Drezel Burnham and Michael Milken, how Milken handing the on-going investigation, and most revealing of all, the smoking gun that enabled the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Attorney's office to ultimately convict Michael Milken. Illustrated. 431 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Thus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Dennis Levine was a middle-class boy from the Queens district of New York. His financial acumen propelled him up through the tiers of Wall Street until at the age of 32 he was a managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, specializing in corporate take-overs. He was earning nearly $2 million a year, but his salary was insignificant compared with the gains he made from insider trading and salted away in a secret bank account in Switzerland, unknown even to his wife. In detail Levine traces the deals that, with the help of accomplices such as Milken and Boesky, funded his life-style in a Park Avenue apartment decorated with Picassos. His addiction to the risks and thrills of his illegal operation - when his entire fortune was sometimes riding on the results of a take-over bid - was so great that even when he knew the SEC was getting suspicious he just couldn't stop trading. But officers of the bank where he was making his deposits were following his insider information on their own account and their "piggy-back" dealing eventually led to his detection and arrest in 1986. Levine describes his imprisonment and looks back over "a decade of shame" in Wall Street that ended with the downfall of many of the firms and colleagues he depicts. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 431 pages.