The Jewish exploiter Ivan Boesky may be familiar to some, having been busted for insider trading and other gross financial misdeeds back in the economic scandals that raged during the 1980s.
As a result of his economic terrorism, Boesky served 2 years in prison (a very light sentence…was the presiding judge a fellow Jew?) and was fined 100 million dollars — he was also barred from working in the American financial industry for life.
During a few of his younger years, Boesky worked for the CIA in Iran.
After his criminal conviction, Boesky found religion and re-embraced Judaism, his ancestral faith. Prior to his arrest Boesky had been a donor to various Jewish causes, similar to Madoff who had served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University (LOL!), and as Treasurer of its Board of Trustees. Boesky’s story is similar, and he had donated millions to Jewish ‘charities’ including the library at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America — however, that school removed Boesky’s name from their library after he was convicted for economic crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop Boesky from pursuing Judaism, and in the late-1980s he continued studying Hebrew and Talmud at the JTS:
The scandal that surrounded Mr. Boesky caused considerable unease at the numerous Jewish and secular charitable organizations in which he was active. The seminary was particularly embarrassed when an old picture of Mr. Boesky wearing a yarmulke and being held aloft at a seminary dinner was circulated after the scandal became public.
The implication of Mr. Boesky and other Jews in the scandal spawned a host of colloquia about Jewish ethics and values. At the seminary, administrators answered questions from students for more than an hour after the school had announced it was removing the arbitrager’s name from the library and accepting his resignation from its board. Many students had challenged the school for becoming entangled with Mr. Boesky, who had pledged more than $2 million to the school.
This summer, Mr. Boesky is taking ”Foundations of Hebrew” and ”Entering the Rabbinic Library: An Introduction to Mishnah, Midrash and Talmud.” He is not a degree student. [SOURCE]
