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You'd think Carl Icahn would be here given that the core "takeover and gut an airline plot" is something he actually did with TWA. Ronald "Ronnie" Perelman did something similar with both Marvel and Revlon, gutting the businesses for himself. Boesky and Milken were both convicted of insider trading.
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