has michael milken donated to education 
education is a key focus of the milken family foundation among other things the foundation awards prizes to hardworking k 12 teachers and principals and offers financial support to college bound students in need of assistance 11the bottom linemichael milken is a billionaire and philanthropist mainly known for pioneering the junk bond craze of the 1980s nicknamed the junk bond king milken while working as an executive at the investment bank drexel burnham lambert became famous for getting companies with lower credit ratings access to capital milken s work turned him into one of wall street s highest earners and a symbol of the greed and growth of financial markets in the 1980s by 1990 he was behind bars for securities fraud 