and then he pled guilty to avoid a retrial and was allowed out for time served. stewart: the climate had gone from celebrating the excesses of wall street to condemning them pretty quickly. reporter: mr. milken! jennings: tonight s headline milken pleads guilty in what may be the largest individual case of fraud ever to rock wall street a case which ended in a plea bargain with the government. frank: judge kimba wood said milken s crimes merited his removal from society. she sentenced the one-time king of wall street to 10 years in prison. stewart: he didn t end up serving anywhere near that. he did go to jail for just under two years. but i m confident when he left, he was at a minimum a billionaire, and quite possibly a multi-billionaire. jensen: the game of monopoly could have been invented for donald trump. but monopoly is a tricky game. when you borrow $2 billion and the economy goes into a tailspin and you can t pay the interest on your loans,
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