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671:, defrauding its clients and stock parking (buying stocks for the benefit of another). All of the transactions involved Milken and his department. The most intriguing charge was that Boesky paid Drexel $ 5.3 million in 1986 for Milken's share of profits from illegal trading. Earlier in the year, Boesky characterized the payment as a consulting fee to Drexel. Around the same year, Giuliani began seriously considering indicting Drexel under the powerful
470:. The enlarged firm was privately held; Lambert held a 26 percent stake and received six seats on the board of directors. Most of the remaining 74 percent was held by employees. Burnham remained the enlarged firm's chairman. He handed the posts of president and CEO to Robert Linton, who had begun at Burnham and Company in 1945 as a stock certificate runner. Burnham handed the chairmanship to Linton as well in 1982.
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864:, had increased. Innovative financial instruments often generate skepticism, and few have generated more controversy than high yield debt. Some argue that the debt instrument itself, sometimes dubbed "turbo debt", was the cornerstone of the 1980s "Decade of Greed". However, junk bonds were actually used in less than 25% of acquisitions, and
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only co-head of corporate finance until his death in 2009. In 1993, the SEC barred him from serving as president, chairman or CEO of a securities firm for life for failing to properly supervise Milken. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's chairman and CEO is John Sorte, Joseph's successor as president and CEO of Drexel from 1990 to 1992. In 2011,
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during that period. Nevertheless, by 1990 default rates on high yield debt had increased from 4% to 10%, further eroding confidence in this financial instrument. Without Milken's cheerleading, the liquidity of the junk bond market dried up. Drexel was forced to buy the bonds of insolvent and failing
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at any time. Drexel had no corporate parent that could pump in cash in the event of such a crisis, unlike most
American financial institutions. Groupe Bruxelles Lambert refused even to consider making an equity investment until Joseph improved the bottom line. The firm posted a $ 40 million loss for
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The government had dropped several of the demands that had initially angered Drexel but continued to insist that Milken leave the firm if indicted—which he did shortly after his own indictment in March 1989. Drexel's Alford plea allowed the firm to maintain its innocence while acknowledging that it
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saw "no light at the end of the tunnel" for Drexel. They gave Joseph an ultimatum–unless Drexel filed for bankruptcy, the SEC would seize Drexel that morning before the markets opened. After Joseph told the board that Drexel had effectively been told to "go out of business", the board voted to file
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Even though
Burnham was by far the dominant partner and nominal survivor in the merger, the more powerful investment banks insisted that the Drexel name come first as a condition of inheriting the old Drexel's place in the "major" bracket. Burnham had no choice but to agree, since his enlarged firm
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The firm's aggressive culture led many Drexel employees to stray into unethical, and sometimes illegal, conduct. Milken and his colleagues at the high-yield bond department believed the securities laws hindered the free flow of trade. Eventually, Drexel's excessive ambition led it to abuse the junk
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to establish Morgan Joseph, a middle-market investment bank that caters to many of the same kinds of clients as Drexel had. In 2011, the firm merged with Tri-Artisan
Partners, a merchant bank, to form Morgan Joseph TriArtisan. Although the firm carried Joseph's name and he was part-owner, he was
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led a group of banks that tried to put together a loan package for the reeling firm, but this came to nothing. With other firms shutting Drexel out of deals, Joseph's last resort was a bailout by the government. Unfortunately for Drexel, one of Drexel's first hostile deals came back to haunt it at
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In April 1989, Drexel settled with the SEC, agreeing to stricter safeguards on its oversight procedures. Later that month, the firm eliminated 5,000 jobs by shuttering three departments—including the retail brokerage operation. In essence, Drexel was jettisoning the core of the old
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had a habit of absconding with the funds of indicted companies, and the writers of RICO wanted to make sure there was something to seize or forfeit in the event of a guilty verdict. Most Wall Street firms, then as now, relied heavily on loans. However, 96 percent of Drexel's capital was borrowed
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bankruptcy protection. Drexel was the first Wall Street firm since the
Depression to be forced into bankruptcy. The filing covered only the parent company, not the broker/dealer; executives and lawyers believed that confidence in Drexel had deteriorated so much that the firm was finished in its
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It became one of the more successful brokerages in the country, eventually building its capital to $ 1 billion. While
Burnham eventually branched out into investment banking, the company's ability to expand was limited by the structure of the investment banking industry of that time. A strict
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money, by far the most of any firm. This debt would have to take second place to any performance bond. Additionally, if the bond ever had to be paid, Drexel's stockholders would have been all but wiped out. Due to this, banks will not extend credit to a securities firm under a RICO indictment.
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Despite having only two major clients by the 1970s, Drexel was still considered a major firm, and thus got a large chunk of the syndicates formed to sell stocks and bonds. It was a shell of its former self, however, in 1973 when a severe drop in the stock market sent the firm reeling. Drexel
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Even before the firm's bankruptcy, Tubby
Burnham spun off the firm's funds management arm as Burnham Financial Group, which currently operates as a diversified investment company. Burnham was reportedly still arranging deals until his death in 2002 at age 93. The rest of Drexel emerged from
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Due to several deals that did not work out, as well as an unexpected crash of the junk bond market, 1989 was a difficult year for Drexel even after it settled the criminal and SEC cases. Reports of an $ 86 million loss going into the fourth quarter resulted in the firm's
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remains an industry model today. Michael Milken, one of the few senior executives who was a holdover from the old Drexel, got most of the credit by almost single-handedly creating a junk bond market. However, another key architect in this strategy was
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firms. While Milken was clearly the most powerful man in the firm (to the point that a business consultant warned Drexel that it was a "one-product company"), it was Joseph who succeeded Linton as president in 1984, adding the post of CEO in 1985.
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subsidiary into its holding company, Drexel
Burnham Lambert Group—only to be ordered to stop by the SEC on February 9 out of concerns about the broker's solvency. This sent Joseph and other senior executives into a near-panic. After the SEC, the
637:. Levine had joined Drexel only a year earlier. Unknown to Drexel management, he had spent his entire Wall Street career trading on inside information. Levine pleaded guilty to four felonies, and implicated one of his recent partners, super-
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needed the informal blessing of the more powerful firms to survive on Wall Street. Thus, Drexel
Burnham and Company, headquartered in New York, was born in 1973 with $ 44 million in capital. The merged firm claimed 1935 as its founding date.
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Only two days later, however, Drexel lawyers found out about a limited partnership set up by Milken's department, MacPherson
Partners, they previously hadn't known about. This partnership had been involved in the issuing of bonds for
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With literally minutes to go before being indicted (according to at least one source, the grand jury was actually in the process of voting on the indictment), Drexel reached an agreement with the government in which it entered an
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Nonetheless, negotiations for a possible plea agreement collapsed on December 19 when Giuliani made several demands that were far too draconian even for those who advocated a settlement. Giuliani demanded that Drexel waive its
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By this time, several Drexel executives—including Joseph—concluded that Drexel could not survive a RICO indictment and would have to seek a settlement with Giuliani. Senior Drexel executives became particularly nervous after
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cast doubts about a restructuring plan, Joseph concluded that Drexel could not stay independent. Unfortunately, concerns about possible liability to civil suits derailed an eleventh-hour attempt to find a prospective buyer.
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In 1940, several former Drexel partners and associates formed an investment bank and assumed the rights to the "Drexel and Company" name. The old Drexel, which chose to concentrate on commercial banking after the
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immediately following the Drexel bankruptcy with a number of partners and began building the firm into what today is the largest, independent, full service, global investment bank (non bank-holding company).
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rating being cut in late November. This made it nearly impossible for Drexel to reborrow its outstanding commercial paper, and it had to be repaid. Rumors abounded that the banks could yank Drexel's
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For two years, Drexel steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the criminal and SEC investigations into Milken's activities were based almost entirely on the statements of Boesky, an admitted
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There was also the 1838 Group named after the founding date of Drexel established by another group of investment fund managers. The funds suffered from under performance and the group folded.
833:, a small investment bank with only 20 employees (at its height, Drexel employed over 10,000 people) and strict limits on its activities. In 1994, New Street merged with Green Capital, a
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to six felonies—three counts of stock parking and three counts of stock manipulation. It also agreed to pay a fine of $ 650 million—at the time, the largest fine ever levied under the
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that other firms at Wall Street did not support Drexel or come to its aid when the company got into trouble because they were "smelling an opportunity to grab this business".
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in 1986, netting $ 545.5 million—at the time, the most profitable year ever for a Wall Street firm, and equivalent to $ 1.29 billion in 2023. In 1987, Milken was paid
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652:, launched his own investigation. Ominously, Milken refused to cooperate with Drexel's own internal investigation, only speaking through his attorneys. A year later,
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unwritten set of rules assured the dominance of a few large firms by controlling the order in which their names appeared in advertisements for an
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named Joseph the seventh-worst CEO in American business history, saying that "his poor management left the company without a crisis plan."
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management soon realized that a prominent name was not nearly enough to survive and was very receptive to a merger offer from Burnham.
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looking to reduce his sentence. This was not enough to keep the SEC from suing Drexel in September 1988 for insider trading,
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this point. At the time of Pickens' raid on Unocal, the company's investment bank was the establishment firm
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of as much as $ 1 billion in lieu of having its assets frozen. This provision was put in the law because
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regulated the separation of commercial and investment banking, was completely absorbed into the
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Drexel, however, was more aggressive in its business practices than most. When it entered the
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firm at the time, equivalent to $ 1.29 billion in 2023. Milken, who was Drexel's head of
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in 1965 to form Drexel Harriman Ripley. In the mid-1970s, it sold a 25 percent stake to
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in 1986, netting $ 545.5 million, which represented the most profitable year ever for a
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driver, promised Burnham that in 10 years, he would make Drexel Burnham as powerful as
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1585:"Drexel Pleads Guilty, to Pay Record Fine: $ 650-Million Accord Closes Boesky Chapter"
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The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
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Burnham found a willing partner in Drexel Firestone, an ailing
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called Joseph and told him that they, Brady and NYSE chairman
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Organizationally, the firm was considered the definition of a
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Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken
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United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
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Drexel's legacy as an advisor to both startup companies and
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1464:"I.W. Burnham II, a Baron of Wall Street, Is Dead at 93"
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for bankruptcy. That night, Drexel officially filed for
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trade. He was under nearly constant scrutiny from the
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1989—the first operating loss in its 54-year history.
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Company. The retail accounts were eventually sold to
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1618:"Drexel to Pay $ 650 Million in Guilty Plea"
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1649:"A Stomping Ground for Veteran Analysts"
1444:"The Collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert"
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1085:(1937—2009), co-founder of Morgan Joseph
1069:, co-founder of Apollo Global Management
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1764:"Drexel's Ex-Chief Is Back in Business"
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1376:"Wages Even Wall St. Can't Stomach"
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1374:Eichenwald, Kurt (April 3, 1989).
1285:"Your Best Job | MoreBusiness.com"
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1697:My Life Seen Through Our Eyes
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1674:"Drexel Gives Up The Ghost"
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1095:, and senior partner at
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888:Apollo Global Management
532:mergers and acquisitions
464:Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
426:Drexel, Morgan & Co.
1729:The Wall Street Journal
1062:Jefferies & Company
988:Goldman, Sachs & Co
773:New York Stock Exchange
576:Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
540:highly confident letter
1880:Drexel Burnham Lambert
1808:. CNBC. April 30, 2009
1792:Institutional Investor
1593:. September 11, 1989.
1254:Stone, Dan G. (1990).
1035:1995 air rage incident
979:AIG Financial Products
829:bankruptcy in 1992 as
733:-era securities laws.
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514:high-yield securities
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402:Francis Martin Drexel
328:high-yield securities
211:Investment management
156:I. W. "Tubby" Burnham
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1450:. February 14, 1990.
1172:Squawk on the Street
1132:Moelis & Company
414:Mexican–American War
379:Isaac Wolfe Bernheim
1684:on January 3, 2008.
1083:Frederick H. Joseph
825:then-current form.
715:Storer Broadcasting
678:respondeat superior
578:successful bid for
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274:Number of employees
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1565:. December 5, 1988
1543:The New York Times
1468:The New York Times
1448:The New York Times
1381:The New York Times
1348:Cohan, William D.
1291:on August 12, 2007
1177:Tea Party movement
1160:, chairman of the
1058:Richard B. Handler
831:New Street Capital
817:John J. Phelan Jr.
809:E. Gerald Corrigan
669:stock manipulation
517:
433:Glass–Steagall Act
245:US$ 545.5 million
207:Investment banking
139:Financial services
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1590:Los Angeles Times
1185:, founder of the
1073:Roderick M. Hills
1060:, current CEO of
984:Abby Joseph Cohen
920:John Adams Morgan
866:hostile takeovers
858:leveraged buyouts
811:and SEC chairman
794:Nicholas F. Brady
550:' failed runs at
544:corporate raiders
536:hostile takeovers
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910:Jefferies Group
906:Richard Handler
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993:Jerry Doyle
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896:Josh Harris
727:Alford plea
719:money funds
648:, then the
642:Ivan Boesky
639:arbitrageur
598:fiscal year
587:meritocracy
580:RJR Nabisco
564:Phillips 66
562:'s bid for
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485:Fred Joseph
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320:fiscal year
191:Fred Joseph
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119:S&P 100
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1874:Categories
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1203:References
1152:Marc Rowan
1124:Ken Moelis
1118:junk bonds
999:Marc Faber
966:Leon Black
960:Fast Money
900:Marc Rowan
892:Leon Black
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796:, was now
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560:Carl Icahn
410:California
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235:Net income
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