I suppose that depends on how you define "Life Ruined." He was diagnosed with cancer in January,1993...same month he was released. 13 years later, he's still alive and working in the financial field.
He's got his own website that promotes...well, HIM. He started a supposedly non-profit (heh) think-tank (the miliken institute), started a charity (fastercures.org), continued funding a school and another charity he started when he was RICHER and sitting in on global conferences. That's not including the cable channel he almost started or the private business like the Cardean Learning group he partly own or invests in.
And he didn't do 10 years, either. To wit: "However, Milken served only about 22 months (from March 1991 until January 1993) before being released. Upon his release, it is estimated he still had over one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000 USD) of his personal fortune intact even after paying $900 million dollars ($900,000,000 USD) in fines and settlements. He is now worth close to three billion dollars ($3,000,000,000 USD) and has long since entered other business ventures."
I mean, if that's what his life is when it's ruined, I marvel at what it would have been like otherwise.
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Re: We're all making a fortune selling daddy's dope.
Date: 2006-05-26 12:39 pm (UTC)He's got his own website that promotes...well, HIM. He started a supposedly non-profit (heh) think-tank (the miliken institute), started a charity (fastercures.org), continued funding a school and another charity he started when he was RICHER and sitting in on global conferences. That's not including the cable channel he almost started or the private business like the Cardean Learning group he partly own or invests in.
And he didn't do 10 years, either. To wit: "However, Milken served only about 22 months (from March 1991 until January 1993) before being released. Upon his release, it is estimated he still had over one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000 USD) of his personal fortune intact even after paying $900 million dollars ($900,000,000 USD) in fines and settlements. He is now worth close to three billion dollars ($3,000,000,000 USD) and has long since entered other business ventures."
I mean, if that's what his life is when it's ruined, I marvel at what it would have been like otherwise.
Re: We're all making a fortune selling daddy's dope.
Date: 2006-05-26 01:04 pm (UTC)