“In fact, he set up his business around when I joined the bureau. “By that point in time he had been up and running for a number of years, he had a lot of momentum behind him,” Mr Coleman said. The white-collar crime expert joined the FBI in 1989 and in 1992 he was assigned to a Wall Street financial crime squad in New York, investigating things such as stock manipulation, stock fraud and insider trading.īy late 1992 the squad was tipped off by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Belfort, who was becoming known in Wall Street circles for his stockbroking business Stratton Oakmont.

Camera Icon Gregory Coleman Credit: News Corp “Belfort at this point freely admits to that kind of thing in his books and his movies, you name it, it was there,” Mr Coleman said. Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Belfort is depicted as an abuser of Quaaludes and cocaine, and regularly hosted wild parties which had free-flowing champagne and were attended by workmates and prostitutes.

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