He has an affair with a woman named Naomi Lapaglia. Jordan becomes immensely successful and slides into a decadent lifestyle of prostitutes and drugs. After an expose in Forbes, hundreds of ambitious young financiers flock to his company. To cloak this, Jordan gives the firm the respectable-sounding name of Stratton Oakmont. The basic method of the firm is a pump and dump scam. They recruit several of Jordan's friends, whom Jordan trains in the art of the 'hard sell'. Jordan befriends his neighbor, Donnie Azoff, and the two found their own company. Thanks to his aggressive pitching style and the high commissions, Jordan makes a small fortune. Jordan soon finds his career terminated following Black Monday and takes a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. Rothschild, employed under Mark Hanna, who quickly entices him with the sex and drugs fueled stockbroker culture and passes on his idea that a stockbroker's only goal is to make money for himself. In 1987, Jordan Belfort procures a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden. Watch The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Trailer.
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