Martin Siegel

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Martin Siegel was a star investment banker who became embroiled in the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, alongside Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. He attended Harvard Business School before working at Kidder Peabody and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He was lauded in the banking industry as a leading expert in defensive tactics for avoiding hostile takeovers. In 1987 he plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the securities laws and one count of tax evasion for failing to report payments from arbitrageur Ivan Boesky. Having cooperated with the government, Siegel received only a two month prison sentence. His involvement in criminal activities is recounted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart.

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