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- BUSINESS, Page 65Business NotesSECURITIESOn Easier Street
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- After a year of seemingly endless legal trauma for Drexel
- Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken, each got unexpectedly
- favorable news last week. Federal Judge Kimba Wood recommended
- that the former junk-bond king be eligible for parole after
- serving only 36 to 40 months of the 10-year sentence she
- imposed on him for securities violations. Wood based her
- decision on the financial damage done to investors and
- companies as a result of Milken's confessed misdeeds, which she
- calculated to be $318,000, less than a day's pay during
- Milken's highest-flying years and far less than the
- government's claim of more than $1 million. Milken is scheduled
- next week to check into a minimum-security prison camp near San
- Francisco, where he will share a dormitory room with three
- other inmates.
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- Since Milken's former employer declared bankruptcy early
- last year, creditors and other parties have filed an estimated
- $20 billion of claims against it. The problem, observed Federal
- District Judge Milton Pollack, who is overseeing Drexel's
- reorganization, is that the company's assets are worth only
- $2.8 billion. To avoid costly litigation that would drain the
- firm's remaining assets, Pollack last week secured a tentative
- accord from the key parties to slash their claims 90%, to $2
- billion. If the agreement stands, Drexel could soon emerge from
- Chapter 11 and resume business on its own.
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