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Douglas’s Gekko Is FBI’s Newest Insider-Trading Recruit

Gordon Gekko, the character played by actor Michael Douglas in the movie “Wall Street,” is the newest weapon in the FBI’s arsenal to combat insider trading, part of a law-enforcement initiative agents say will continue for at least five more years.

The message from Douglas in a public service announcement unveiled today isn’t “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” In a first for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Douglas, reprising his Oscar-winning role in the 1987 Oliver Stone film, urges fund managers and Wall Street analysts to avoid taking the same route to the federal penitentiary as his character does.