whereas the lindner companies and financial institutions once operated on conservative, cautious principles they later became involved in riskier ventures. lindner insurance companies began to invest in junk bonds and other lindner companies began to issue junk bonds. the sec noted that lindner companies were the single largest filers of new issues of securities in the u.s. lindner was repeatedly accused of self-dealing in the corporations under his control; e.g., having such a corporation give him a private aircraft. he became closely associated with michael milken and the others in the junk bond field to the extent that his financial institutions invested in the junk bonds of the others. he and others actively engaged in public relations efforts to present an image of fiscal propriety to the general public while helping to bankrupt individuals and families aiding central american democracy groups in the 1980s even while they helped chiquita's cause.