Trump advisors reportedly seeking a pardon for ‘junk bond king’ Milken
[{"sender": "Richard Kahn [richardkahn@hbtk.com]", "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "6/15/2018 1:06:12 PM", "subject": "Trump advisors reportedly seeking a pardon for ‘junk bond king’ Milken", "body": "https://www.cnbe.com/2018/06/15/trump-advisors-reportedl y-seeking-a-pardon-for-junk-bond-king-\nmilken.html\n\nTrump advisors reportedly seeking a\npardon for ‘junk bond king’ Milken\n\nTae Kim\n\nSeveral of President Donald Trump's advisors are pushing him to pardon Michael Milken,\nBloomberg News reported Friday.\n\nMichael Milken, 71, was known as the \"junk bond king\" in the 1980s and was convicted for\nsecurities fraud.\n\nBloomberg said former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci,\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, senior advisor Jared Kushner and attorney Rudy\nGiuliani support the pardon for Milken.\n\nMilken has a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes. The financier, who pioneered\nthe market for high-yield bonds while at Drexel Burnham Lambert, was sentenced to 10\nyears in prison and permanently banned from the securities industry by the Securities and\nExchange Commission. His prison term was reduced to two years.\n\nThe White House and a spokesperson for the Milken Institute did not immediately respond\nto requests for comment.\n\nSee the full Bloomberg News report here."}]