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- <title>
- Mar. 02, 1992: Business Notes:Settlements
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 43
- Business Notes
- SETTLEMENTS
- Reversal Of Fortune
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Poor Michael Milken. He's already paid $600 million in
- penalties and is 12 months into a 10-year prison sentence--and
- he still has to worry about hundreds of lawsuits filed by
- investors claiming they were bilked by his schemes. To settle
- those charges, the fallen junk-bond king has now agreed to pay
- $500 million more in a deal that requires the approval of U.S.
- Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. Plaintiffs include the
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which alleges Milken
- helped undermine the savings and loan industry by persuading S&L
- chairmen to load up on junk bonds that collapsed when the market
- for the risky IOUs turned sour.
- </p>
- <p> Milken's latest payment would be part of a $1.3 billion
- deal that calls for other former executives of the Drexel Burn
- ham Lambert investment firm to contribute $300 million. The
- officers' insurance firms would provide the remaining $100
- million. At the same time, Pollack would decide how to
- distribute the funds among plaintiffs in the various legal
- actions.
- </p>
- <p> Milken's overall share of the settlement would come to a
- whopping $900 million, including $400 million in restitution
- that was part of his previous penalty. Not to worry: that still
- leaves the junkman with about $500 million of the wealth he
- amassed during the 1980s.
- </p>
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