Jordan Belfort is best known as The Wolf of Wall Street, due to his earlier work, life style, publications and now his films, born in 1962 Jordan was the son of accountants, Max and Lear Belfort. He is known for his, perhaps greatest brokerage firms on the...
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Jordan Belfort is best known as The Wolf of Wall Street, due to his earlier work, life style, publications and now his films, born in 1962 Jordan was the son of accountants, Max and Lear Belfort. He is known for his, perhaps greatest brokerage firms on the Wall Street in the 1990s, Stratton Oakmont, although he was never on Wall Street but on Long Island. His sales methods, and his passion to become famous and rich, led him to establish Stratton Oakmont; which was a firm that sold untrained investors valueless stocks, and deserted them once the stocks plummeted. The racket led to a 22 month term in jail and Jordan was forced to repay those he had defrauded. When running Stratton Oakmont, Jordan made in excess of $1 billion dollars via a number of loyal workers he had hired to carry out penny stock sales to prospective investors. Jordan and his workforce got rich quickly, they lived life in the fast lane, abusing drugs and partying hard.
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