From a showy way of life in the 1990s to a fraud conviction as the decade drew to a close and a new life as a uplifing speaker, the tale of Jordan Belfort is perhaps one of the most studied stories of Wall Street gone wrongâ€"-and how to make it right.
Born in July, 1962, Jordan Belfort was the child of Max and Leah Belfortâ€"-Jewish accountants living in the Bronx and later Manhattan. Max Belfort was a significant influence in Jordan's life, even going on to become the Director of one of the most notable, opulent and ultimately fake Wall St brokerage firms, Stratton Oakmont.
Jordan Belfort studied to be a dentist, but dropped out of college to make his fortune. After several years of working tiny sales roles, he seemed to make a fast, worthwhile and probably illegal practice of brokering in low priced shares. As his operation expanded, he rapidly scaled up his operation to make Stratton Oakmont, a disgusting boiler room company that is claimed to have cheated backers of over $200 million. Belfort's company finalised the plan of selling large amounts of penny stocks and shares to unsuspecting financiers, artificially inflating their price and then selling them for a profitâ€"-often named as a 'pump and dump' schemeâ€"-earning him over $50 million a year. Belfort is perceived as the inventor of this suggestion that's considered by analysts and finance corporate management to be the predecessor to the modern Ponzi scheme. At the pinnacle Stratton Oakmont employed over 1,000 brokers dealing in stock worth over one billion bucks.
Belfort's illegal empire immediately came under the scanner of the Monetary Crimes Unit of the Federal Agency Bureau of Investigation and the office of the Alabama Instruments Commissioner. He was found guilty of the white-collar crime and served about 2 years in Fed prison for money laundering and securities fraud. In prison, he wrote the manuscript of what would be his hottest 2008 book, 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and in 2009 wrote a chase up titled 'Catching the Wolf of Wall Street'. As 1 part of his sentence, he was ordered to pay over $110 million of the cash he had gained in fake trading. In 2013, he was charged with being tardy in meeting his amendment commitments and is claimed to be trying to find relief from the adjudication that ordered him to settle 50% of the money he took from speculators.
Today, Jordan Belfort is a writer, consultant and motivational speaker who has written about the import of company ethics in one or two American and global papers and magazines. Through his firm Straight Line, Belfort trains and educates corporate management about the best way to use high-return sales methods to generate wealth in a moral demeanour. He also speaks at some of the most distinguished CXO-level meetings and conventions around the planet. His life has been portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film 'The Wolf of Wall Street'.
Born in July, 1962, Jordan Belfort was the child of Max and Leah Belfortâ€"-Jewish accountants living in the Bronx and later Manhattan. Max Belfort was a significant influence in Jordan's life, even going on to become the Director of one of the most notable, opulent and ultimately fake Wall St brokerage firms, Stratton Oakmont.
Jordan Belfort studied to be a dentist, but dropped out of college to make his fortune. After several years of working tiny sales roles, he seemed to make a fast, worthwhile and probably illegal practice of brokering in low priced shares. As his operation expanded, he rapidly scaled up his operation to make Stratton Oakmont, a disgusting boiler room company that is claimed to have cheated backers of over $200 million. Belfort's company finalised the plan of selling large amounts of penny stocks and shares to unsuspecting financiers, artificially inflating their price and then selling them for a profitâ€"-often named as a 'pump and dump' schemeâ€"-earning him over $50 million a year. Belfort is perceived as the inventor of this suggestion that's considered by analysts and finance corporate management to be the predecessor to the modern Ponzi scheme. At the pinnacle Stratton Oakmont employed over 1,000 brokers dealing in stock worth over one billion bucks.
Belfort's illegal empire immediately came under the scanner of the Monetary Crimes Unit of the Federal Agency Bureau of Investigation and the office of the Alabama Instruments Commissioner. He was found guilty of the white-collar crime and served about 2 years in Fed prison for money laundering and securities fraud. In prison, he wrote the manuscript of what would be his hottest 2008 book, 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and in 2009 wrote a chase up titled 'Catching the Wolf of Wall Street'. As 1 part of his sentence, he was ordered to pay over $110 million of the cash he had gained in fake trading. In 2013, he was charged with being tardy in meeting his amendment commitments and is claimed to be trying to find relief from the adjudication that ordered him to settle 50% of the money he took from speculators.
Today, Jordan Belfort is a writer, consultant and motivational speaker who has written about the import of company ethics in one or two American and global papers and magazines. Through his firm Straight Line, Belfort trains and educates corporate management about the best way to use high-return sales methods to generate wealth in a moral demeanour. He also speaks at some of the most distinguished CXO-level meetings and conventions around the planet. His life has been portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film 'The Wolf of Wall Street'.
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