Legendary Investor Carl Icahn Dishes On McDonald’s, Wall Street And His New HBO Doc

Legendary Investor Carl Icahn Dishes On McDonald’s, Wall Street And His New HBO Doc

Carl Icahn at his home in East Hampton, NY. It's a week after his 86th birthday and billionaire investor Carl Icahn is back doing what he does best: launching a proxy fight. Only his latest target is fast-food giant McDonald's, which confirmed Sunday that Icahn has nominated two members to its board of directors. The infamous corporate raider's er, beef? The mistreatment of sows housed in its suppliers small gestational crates. Icahn, who is known to have inspired Gordon Gekko's "If you want a friend, get a dog" quote from the 1980's movie Wall Street, says he feels "very emotional about the treatment of animals" ever since it was brought to his attention by his daughter, Michelle, a vegetarian who has been involved with the Humane Society. "I'm not trying to be sanctimonious, I just feel [bad] about it," he says from his home in Indian Creek, Miami, an area otherwise known as the "Billionaire Bunker." Icahn's 200 shares of McDonald's stock, worth less than $50, 000, scarcely merits a footnote among the $9 billion in investments his Icahn Enterprises holds. But the mistreatment of farm animals isn't really on top of Icahn's agenda. After a long career rattling corporate