he got caught up in a crisis of a man named ivan busski the made money off of takeovers who was one of the most aggressive fiefs on wall street. one thing about him, i hesitate to admit it but i do know him personally. i even worked with him. and won't go further than that but not on wall street investment. he would admit unlike many of these people who created these fantasies about the good they were doing in america he would admit that what he did was against the law. milton pled guilty. lot of commentators, smart people said that brought him down, that scandal. he was going down anyway because he was making bad loans. where was washington? nowhere to be found. paul volcker was worried about it. milkin was financing takeovers absurd prices. who benefited from those absurd prices? wall street. because they had a little piece of the action. any time the takeover price went up they got a bigger piece of the action. they made fortunes. leveraged-buyouts. some were from milkin who was financing. people turned into millionaires based on the takeover of existing companies that they claim th