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Jordan Belfort
Born July 9, 1962 (age 51) 1! "he Bron#, $e% &ork, '()( 1!
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Jordan R. Belfort -! (67lfrt65 7orn July 9, 1962) i, an *merican moti+ational ,peaker and former ,tock7roker( 8e %a, con+icted of fraud crime, related to ,tock market manipulation and running a penny ,tock 7oiler room for %hich he ,pent 22 month, in pri,on( 5!
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Jordan %a, rai,ed in a Je%i,h home and remain, Je%i,h( 4! 8e gre% up in Bay,ide, @ueen, and graduated
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Belfort ,tarted hi, career a, a 7roker at =(F( 0oth,child( 1/!
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*ccording to federal pro,ecutor,, Belfort ha, failed to li+e up to the re,titution reCuirement of hi, 2//1 ,entencing agreement( "he agreement reCuire, him to pay 5/D of hi, income to%ard, re,titution to the 1,511 client, he defrauded( ;f the .11(6 million that ha, 7een reco+ered 7y BelfortE, +ictim,, .1/(- million of the total i, the re,ult of the ,ale of forfeited propertie,( "he ,entencing agreement mandate, a total of .11/ million in re,titution( 1?!
An ;cto7er 2/11, federal pro,ecutor, filed a complaint that Belfort, %ho had income of .1,?6?,2/9 from the pu7lication of hi, t%o 7ook, and the ,ale of the mo+ie right,, plu, an additional .2-,/// from moti+ational ,peaking ,ince 2//?, paid re,titution of only .2-1,/// o+er the pa,t four year,( "he go+ernment i, currently not holding Belfort in default of hi, payment, in order to keep negotiation, open, 7ut it i, unclear %hen the full amount of the mandated re,titution %ill 7e repaid( 14!
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0eportedly ,o7er ,ince 1994, Belfort %rote t%o memoir,, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, %hich ha+e 7een pu7li,hed in appro#imately -/ countrie, and tran,lated into 14 language,( 5! 8i, life ,tory %a, turned into a motion picture ,tarring =eonardo 2i:aprio, Jonah 8ill, and >argot 0o77ie, and directed 7y >artin )cor,e,e( Filming 7egan in *ugu,t 2/12( 19!"he mo+ie %a, relea,ed on 2ecem7er 25th, 2/11(
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