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Watching this scene from
"The Wolf of Wall Street,"
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it's kind of disturbing.
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Turn around!
Let's go the other fucking way!
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We can't!
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This is pretty accurate
of how desperate it was.
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Walk me through the story,
the true story
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of the sinking
of the "Nadine."
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The true part is,
is that I actually lived it.
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Jordan said, listen, we're
taking the yacht to Sardinia.
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I think there were
19 of us on board.
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And Captain Mark
says to Jordan,
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there's a storm
in the Mediterranean.
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My advice would be
stay in Rome.
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Jordan's like, no fucking way.
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We get on the boat
against Mark's wishes.
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Probably two or three hours
into the trip,
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people are getting sick.
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Dishes are starting
to move around.
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Things are getting worse.
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I'm starting to feel
the boat shake a little bit.
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And then, out of nowhere,
I'm splashed, covered in water.
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We're hitting
30, 40 foot seas.
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I think everyone
was pretty nervous.
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What does Jordan say to me?
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Rob, you got the 'ludes?
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I'm like, no,
I thought you had them.
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Get those fucking 'ludes!
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Rob, go get them.
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The whole boat
was full of water,
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but it was still floating.
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There was electricity
in the water.
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I was getting shocked the
whole time, but I got them.
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And then,
just like in the movie...
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Jesus Christ!
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We were hit by
the perfect storm wave.
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And it crashed over the yacht.
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We're all screaming
and freaking out.
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We're gonna die.
We're gonna die.
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It just brings it
back again, you know?
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You never forget
something like this.
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This is a life or death
situation.
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Just like the movie shows,
we got into a squall.
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And the waves, I don't even
know how big they were,
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but they were crashing
over the boat.
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And I definitely
thought I was dying.
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So the helicopter finally
arrives over the yacht.
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So like, oh, my God.
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Thank God,
we're gonna be saved.
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I call my parents.
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They say,
we saw it on the news.
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You know, Americans
rescued by Italian Navy.
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That whole 18 hours
changed my life drastically.
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I do have PTSD from it.
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But for Jordan,
he loved extreme life.
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He loved taking things
to extreme limits.
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After that yacht sank,
the Associated Press
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were all getting videos of us.
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He ate his 'ludes.
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He was hanging out
with the captain.
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He didn't look at it as
we could have died.
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I wanted to fucking kill him.
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I was cleaning myself.
You know how it is.
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This is Jordan
on a chartered yacht.
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And he just came out
of the ocean.
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And I said to him, hey, Jordan,
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is it cool to take a shower
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in front of the American flag
naked?
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And his response to me was...
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It's the American way.
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And to me, that was
like basically saying
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to the government, fuck you.
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So now we're in the mid-90s,
and Jordan is barred
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from the securities industry.
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Thanks to his sweetheart
exit agreement,
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Stratton is paying him
$1 million a month.
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Meanwhile, he seems to still be
heavily involved in these IPOs
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that Stratton and its sister
firms are taking public.
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We were in love and there
was a lot of great moments.
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So many great moments
with friends coming over,
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so many great trips.
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And of course,
babies come and they're
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so adorable and beautiful.
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But along the way,
you know, he's just
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dominating and doing drugs.
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He's the father.
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Then the drug addiction
just gets, you know, like--
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like the way it is.
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It's a progressive disease.
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Right, either you stop
or it gets worse.
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Don't get me wrong.
Did he have a drug problem?
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Absolutely.
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But that came because he didn't
know what to do with himself.
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Him losing Stratton Oakmont
was losing
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the ultimate drug for him.
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That was who he was.
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I was a little bit
worried, actually.
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Jordan started to
maybe act a little bit strange,
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maybe a little
more short-fused,
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a little more jumpy.
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Easy to get on his bad side.
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I think that's when he
started changing a little bit,
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preparing for the inevitable.
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My name is Gary Carlton.
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In the 1990s,
I worked for NASD,
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the National Association
of Securities Dealers.
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NASD had been in contact
with other regulators.
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We were looking for patterns.
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We found that
there was a smaller case
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involving one of the
initial public offerings.
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The offering was
Master Glazier.
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Master Glazier
was a karate studio.
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I don't understand why
that would become public.
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But I can tell you they did
have at least one location,
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maybe they had more.
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It wasn't like a Starbucks.
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But Stratton Oakmont took
Master Glaziers public.
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We looked at
the initial public offering
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for Master Glazier,
and we noticed that
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there were significant markups.
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A markup is the price
that a brokerage firm
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is going to earn
when they execute a trade
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on a stock
that they already own.
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Anything over 10% of a markup
is considered fraudulent.
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Some of the securities were
marked up as high as 33%.
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Stratton was selling
the Master Glazier stock
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to investors
that exceeded the legal limits.
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Master Glazier's Karate
was the one that
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kind of tipped off
the authorities.
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And that was
the beginning of the end.
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At that point,
we thought the only way
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to resolve the question
of Stratton Oakmont
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was to have them expelled.
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So you essentially
shut down Stratton Oakmont?
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Yes, absolutely.
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When Stratton Oakmont
shut down, there was no raid.
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There were no explosions.
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There were no guns and horses
or anything like that.
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I called one of the partners
on the bat line,
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of course,
because it wasn't taped.
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Ah, it's bullshit,
it's bullshit, it's bullshit.
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The bat line rang
ten seconds later and said--
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It's not bullshit.
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We're done.
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NASDAQ shut us down.
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We were just taken
off the NASD.
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We're done.
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♪ Hey, won't you be ♪
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♪ My one and only ♪
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Five or ten minutes later,
one of the partners
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walked out of his office
with a bat
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and smashed every single
fax machine in the office...
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So that no investor could
fax over a sell ticket.
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Everybody scattered
like roaches.
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The income stopped.
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The camaraderie stopped.
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Everything came
to a screeching halt.
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It was the end of an era.
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After Stratton Oakmont
was shut down,
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Jordan was still involved
in IPOs
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through Biltmore
and Monroe Parker.
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And since he couldn't legally
work in this industry,
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a lot of his payment came
under the table in cash.
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The only thing I knew is
that he had a lot of cash.
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And I mean a lot.
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He had $3 million
in his bedroom in cash.
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And I remember walking in
the front door of the house.
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And Jordan had
a shopping bag, and he goes,
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hey, I got a present for you.
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And he holds his shopping bag
over the banister
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and he drops it to me.
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And it hits the floor,
and I look in,
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and there's $1 million in cash
in the shopping bag.
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If he would have taken
the millions of dollars
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that he had at
that point and just
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lived his life
happily ever after,
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he would be living
his life a millionaire.
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But he is the epitome
of the word greed.
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Can you pick up the book
under your chair
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and read the first paragraph?
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"Catching the Wolf of Wall
Street" by Jordan Belfort.
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"Joel Cohen, the disheveled
Assistant United States
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"Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York
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was a world class bastard
with a degenerate slouch."
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First of all, I don't think
I'm a degenerate slouch.
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Am I slouching degenerately?
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Am I okay? Okay.
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Common slate.
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My name is Joel Cohen,
and I was the prosecutor
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in the Eastern District
of New York.
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So in 1997, I was doing
a whole range
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of white collar
investigations.
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Senior people
in the office said
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there's a Stratton Oakmont
investigation
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you probably know about.
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It's been going on
for a couple of years.
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Would you be interested
in taking this on?
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Once NASD orders Stratton
Oakmont to be shut down,
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the question becomes,
will anyone be held accountable
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for the stock fraud, the
manipulation that took place,
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you know, over the years?
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And then I met with
the FBI agent, Greg Coleman,
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who had been leading it.
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In early 1997, I've picked
up numerous brokers
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and other people,
but now I'm finally focusing
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on the top two main guys,
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Jordan Belfort
and Daniel Porush.
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We began to gather
evidence that there was
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money moving into Switzerland.
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Back then, Switzerland
was a famed and easy place
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to hide money, and that's what
people did there.
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Jordan Belfort
had so much cash
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that came to him
in the form of kickbacks
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from his
manipulated deals that
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there was too much money
to spend.
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He really ran into
the same problem
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that sort of drug cartels have.
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They conduct business,
which is done in cash,
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but they need to
get rid of it at some point.
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They need to get it
into the system.
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So the first step he has
to do is get it to Switzerland.
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He brings in a guy
by the name of Todd Garrett.
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How accurate
was the portrayal
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of Todd Garrett in the film?
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Bring some of them chicks
around here sometime, Ma.
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Let 'em watch.
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It was incomplete.
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Todd Garrett was
an interesting character.
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Todd was a Bayside boy.
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Jordan knew him
from the neighborhood.
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Good guy, fun guy.
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One of the nicest people,
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give you the shirt
off his back,
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but one of the toughest guys
you've ever met.
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Todd Garrett is brought in
because of certain,
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let's say, skills that he has.
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He was a drug dealer.
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He's the guy
that's been selling Quaaludes
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to the brokers
at Stratton Oakmont.
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He's married to a woman
who's a Swiss citizen.
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So Belfort and Porush
bring in Todd and his wife
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to be their couriers.
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Now, at this point, I know
nothing about any of this,
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but it's what happens next that
leads to me being tipped off.
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In the movie, there was
a transfer of money
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from Danny Porush
to Todd Garrett.
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This is where funds
are passed from
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Jonah Hill, which is
supposed to be Danny Porush,
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transferring money
to Todd Garrett.
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I need you to shove it right
up your wife's Latvian cunt,
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you understand?
- Oh, my fucking wife?
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Chill!
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That isn't even
close to accurate.
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So Danny Porush drives
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to Bay Terrace Shopping Center
in Queens.
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And as his fancy car pulls
into the shopping center,
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it catches
the guard's attention.
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So they actually turn
the cameras on the car.
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What happens next is,
Todd Garrett
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pulls into the shopping center
and he parks.
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Now, the way Todd Garrett
is dressed at this point,
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he looks like either a ninja
or a drug dealer.
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He's dressed in all black,
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and he comes through
the parking lot
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and he meets a guy
who looks like
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some kind of businessman
driving another fancy car.
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So all of these things
were incredibly strange.
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The guards called 911, saying,
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we believe we've seen
a drug deal go down.
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So the police find the car.
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At gunpoint, they pull
the driver out of the car.
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They see a briefcase
on the seat.
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They open it up and inside
is $200,000 in cash.
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The police question him.
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Is this your money?
Yes, it is.
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And he says, well,
I have a friend who's a broker,
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and he just loaned it to me
for a heart transplant.
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Now, the police can't
believe the answer
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that they've just gotten.
A heart transplant?
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And he says, no, really.
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And he lifts up his shirt,
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and he shows them a scar
on his chest,
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and he says that he's on the
donor list for a new heart.
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Well, the police aren't
really sure what to do next.
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So ultimately,
they arrest him,
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and they run him through
the FBI's computers.
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That's what leads to me,
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because they were subjects
of my investigation.
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And we realized
that probably was money
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that was destined
for Switzerland.
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It was a white collar
money laundering,
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is essentially
what was happening.
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And it had been
caught on videotape.
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I had $1 million in cash.
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And I really thought that would
last me the rest of my life.
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That was just an inexhaustible
amount of cash.
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Certainly to look at,
it was endless.
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But my monthly overhead
was $30,000,
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maybe $40,000
just to pay my rent,
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parents' mortgage,
the cars, the insurance.
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My average day,
I took 15 Quaaludes.
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They were $30 a pill.
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That turns out to be a $13,000
a month cash Quaalude habit.
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I turned around and
the last bit of cash was gone.
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Gone. Zero.
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I, at this point,
was so addicted
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that there was no such thing
as getting a job.
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And I remember explaining
to one of the 12 therapists
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that I had had
over those years the feeling.
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And I said, could you imagine
you're Michael Jordan,
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and all of the sudden you get
a phone call one morning
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and they say,
hey, good morning, Mike.
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You can't play
basketball anymore.
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Have a nice day. Click.
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That's what it was like.
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This is all I knew.
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What am I gonna do?
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Jordan always felt that he
was pretty much indestructible.
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He took Quaaludes quite a bit.
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He drove wasted
plenty of times.
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He also flew a helicopter
a few times with me
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in it--'luded,
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which is amazing that
we're still alive.
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But he was not a happy person.
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And what he did in return
was took to drugs.
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So we are at the infamous
Brookville Country Club.
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Jordan never spoke
from his home phone
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because he felt it was tapped,
and he decided to drive here
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00:16:58,495 --> 00:17:00,976
to the payphone
in Brookville Country Club,
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which is three blocks
from his house.
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And this is where Jordan,
in the movie,
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crashed his Lamborghini.
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Jordan took a few Quaaludes,
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00:17:12,074 --> 00:17:13,815
and he went
to this country club.
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And like in the movie, the
Quaaludes really kicked in.
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Pow.
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He walked out of the
building and then proceeded
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to roll down 20 or 30 stairs.
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But as you can see,
it's four steps
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00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,180
and four steps in real life.
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He did manage to
get into his car 'luded,
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00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,793
and was able to drive
the three blocks
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back to his house.
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Get out of the fucking way!
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God forbid you should get
behind the wheel of a car.
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The scene when Jordan drove
while he was very high
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really smashed up his car.
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00:17:50,591 --> 00:17:53,246
That was a real event
that occurred,
348
00:17:53,376 --> 00:17:56,205
and everybody knew about that.
349
00:17:56,292 --> 00:17:58,773
I remember
the phone call at 9:00
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that Jordan got
into an accident.
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I said, Nadine,
I'll be right there.
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00:18:02,603 --> 00:18:07,347
I drove down this driveway
to the garage in front of me,
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where his Mercedes was parked
and still running.
354
00:18:10,611 --> 00:18:12,352
The door was open.
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00:18:12,439 --> 00:18:15,790
Jordan was totally
spiraling out of control.
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The movie depicts it when
you start seeing it going bad.
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When he came back
from the country club,
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00:18:22,753 --> 00:18:25,887
that's when things really,
I think, start to turn.
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00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:50,738
He treated Nadine
really bad.
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00:18:50,825 --> 00:18:55,656
He was an abusive drug addict,
and he was an abusive husband.
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00:18:55,743 --> 00:18:57,223
You know, when you're
dealing with addiction,
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which I had never dealt with
before, nothing works.
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00:19:00,835 --> 00:19:02,924
I would stay home with him.
I would leave him at home.
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I would tell him not to do it.
We'd get into fights.
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00:19:05,970 --> 00:19:09,278
And I was like, guys,
he can't go out.
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00:19:09,365 --> 00:19:12,412
And they were like, oh,
just tell him to do some coke.
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00:19:12,499 --> 00:19:15,937
I'm like, that is
not a solution.
368
00:19:16,024 --> 00:19:18,722
The coke was really
what did him in.
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00:19:18,853 --> 00:19:22,377
That's when it got really bad.
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00:19:22,378 --> 00:19:25,642
I'm just wondering how long
that would have lasted.
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00:19:25,773 --> 00:19:28,079
And obviously, it didn't last
because it blew up.
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00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:32,562
But--but I think she
stuck around till the end,
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until it got
really, really ugly.
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00:19:38,525 --> 00:19:41,876
The tremendous benefit to the
case of arresting Todd Garrett
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00:19:41,963 --> 00:19:44,748
is it's part of
the money laundering chain.
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00:19:44,879 --> 00:19:47,360
And so we began to see
if we could flip him.
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00:19:47,490 --> 00:19:50,100
It was not easy.
Todd Garrett was a tough guy.
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00:19:50,101 --> 00:19:53,975
He was an ex-Hell's Angel.
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00:19:54,062 --> 00:19:55,890
He's a boxer.
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00:19:55,977 --> 00:19:57,805
He had sort of
cauliflower ears.
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00:19:57,892 --> 00:19:59,589
He had the crooked nose.
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00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,765
He was a tough-looking guy.
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00:20:01,852 --> 00:20:05,116
I had heard rumors that if
he pulled down his bottom lip,
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00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:07,641
he had RIP tattooed inside.
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00:20:10,513 --> 00:20:13,473
The big breakthrough
was that Todd Garrett
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00:20:13,603 --> 00:20:16,693
really was on the list
to get a heart transplant.
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00:20:16,780 --> 00:20:19,653
And I realized that
extreme circumstances
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00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:21,611
call for extreme measures.
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00:20:21,742 --> 00:20:23,831
So I communicated
to Todd Garrett's lawyer
390
00:20:23,961 --> 00:20:26,268
that we had enough evidence
to bring charges against him
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00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:28,401
for Quaaludes possession,
and that that would
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00:20:28,531 --> 00:20:31,186
take him off the list
to get a heart transplant.
393
00:20:31,273 --> 00:20:33,448
Did you have
any ethical qualms
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00:20:33,449 --> 00:20:35,146
about, like,
is this going too far
395
00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:39,499
to get the information I want?
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00:20:39,586 --> 00:20:41,631
I certainly thought,
when I communicated
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00:20:41,718 --> 00:20:43,807
to Garrett's lawyer
how to say it.
398
00:20:43,894 --> 00:20:47,158
It's not a threat; you're just
communicating facts.
399
00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:50,073
Play ball or you might
not get a new heart.
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00:20:50,074 --> 00:20:52,512
And I was just
telling him the truth.
401
00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:56,080
And then he came in
and cooperated.
402
00:20:56,211 --> 00:20:58,300
And that was the Wolf of
Wall Street's downfall.
403
00:21:10,312 --> 00:21:12,705
Todd Garrett came in and
revealed to us even more
404
00:21:12,706 --> 00:21:13,576
than we could have imagined.
405
00:21:16,971 --> 00:21:19,756
He gave us information that
Belfort and his wife and others
406
00:21:19,843 --> 00:21:22,716
would have parties at
their Long Island mansion,
407
00:21:22,803 --> 00:21:25,153
and they would have friends
who would fly over
408
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:30,289
with the money to Switzerland,
including Garrett's wife.
409
00:21:30,376 --> 00:21:32,160
So there's a scene in
"The Wolf of Wall Street."
410
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:35,294
They're strapping cash
to Todd Garrett's wife.
411
00:21:35,381 --> 00:21:38,208
That was a scene that was
meant to be over-the-top
412
00:21:38,209 --> 00:21:39,646
funny from Hollywood.
413
00:21:39,776 --> 00:21:44,085
The real smuggling was
very much less glamorous,
414
00:21:44,172 --> 00:21:45,826
and they would just
put it in bags,
415
00:21:45,956 --> 00:21:48,872
like, hundreds of thousands
of dollars in, for example,
416
00:21:48,959 --> 00:21:50,483
a Louis Vuitton bag.
417
00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:51,658
They would put a lock on it
and they would
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00:21:51,745 --> 00:21:53,573
check it onto the airplane.
419
00:21:58,795 --> 00:22:03,017
This document is
essentially explaining
420
00:22:03,104 --> 00:22:05,759
how Belfort and Porush
were smuggling cash
421
00:22:05,889 --> 00:22:08,892
out of the U.S.
to Switzerland,
422
00:22:08,979 --> 00:22:12,722
depositing it into bank
accounts for shell companies,
423
00:22:12,809 --> 00:22:16,030
and then wiring it back
to the U.S.
424
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,512
This circular flow
allowed them to disguise
425
00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:22,950
their illegal profits
as legitimate investments.
426
00:22:27,998 --> 00:22:30,827
Once we had the courier,
427
00:22:30,914 --> 00:22:33,569
the case against Belfort
and Porush is all but done.
428
00:22:33,656 --> 00:22:36,093
And I remember looking at
Greg and thinking, oh, my God.
429
00:22:36,180 --> 00:22:37,486
These guys are toast.
430
00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:43,231
At this point,
I believe Nadine
431
00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,929
was getting fed up
having to have this type
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00:22:46,016 --> 00:22:49,846
of volatility for her family.
433
00:22:49,933 --> 00:22:53,372
So my ex-wife and I
had gone to a therapist.
434
00:22:53,502 --> 00:22:56,157
And my ex told Nadine
about her,
435
00:22:56,244 --> 00:22:58,899
and Nadine went and liked her.
436
00:22:59,029 --> 00:23:02,685
And then Nadine convinced
Jordan to go see her.
437
00:23:02,816 --> 00:23:05,384
And after he did see her,
Jordan said,
438
00:23:05,514 --> 00:23:08,169
this therapist
is a cult leader.
439
00:23:08,299 --> 00:23:10,258
He flipped out.
440
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:11,868
And that therapist
basically told her,
441
00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:13,217
you're in a bad situation.
442
00:23:13,348 --> 00:23:14,610
There's no getting out of it.
443
00:23:14,741 --> 00:23:16,655
Run.
444
00:23:16,656 --> 00:23:19,833
That's Nadine
in the background.
445
00:23:19,963 --> 00:23:23,924
And he ultimately
blamed my ex and I.
446
00:23:24,054 --> 00:23:28,450
And our relationship really
severed from that point on.
447
00:23:28,537 --> 00:23:30,409
So I was working
on myself all along,
448
00:23:30,496 --> 00:23:32,802
but that really didn't matter.
449
00:23:32,889 --> 00:23:34,804
Right, because I couldn't
change him.
450
00:23:34,891 --> 00:23:37,241
And you have
a last straw moment.
451
00:23:37,328 --> 00:23:39,722
There was one when I told him
if he didn't get sober,
452
00:23:39,853 --> 00:23:41,507
I was leaving him.
453
00:23:41,594 --> 00:23:43,422
And he went crazy
because I said,
454
00:23:43,509 --> 00:23:45,032
you have to get
an intervention.
455
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,164
I'm not gonna sit here and
watch you kill yourself, right.
456
00:23:47,251 --> 00:23:52,735
And he went nuts, got violent.
457
00:23:52,866 --> 00:23:56,217
Lack of remorse
is the knife in the heart.
458
00:23:56,304 --> 00:23:57,566
And then he got arrested.
459
00:23:57,653 --> 00:23:59,263
So I got lucky.
460
00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:01,483
So that was my window.
461
00:24:01,614 --> 00:24:03,137
And I was like,
he can't hurt me anymore.
462
00:24:03,224 --> 00:24:04,399
I'm out.
463
00:24:06,401 --> 00:24:07,620
There were two
arrests that were made
464
00:24:07,707 --> 00:24:09,665
around Labor Day of 1998.
465
00:24:09,752 --> 00:24:14,104
Danny Porush was arrested
by agents in Miami.
466
00:24:14,191 --> 00:24:16,411
And at the same time,
a large group of FBI agents
467
00:24:16,498 --> 00:24:18,674
went to
Jordan Belfort's mansion.
468
00:24:21,895 --> 00:24:24,288
And that was actually
the first time,
469
00:24:24,375 --> 00:24:28,641
after all of these years that
I met Belfort face to face.
470
00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:34,560
I remember him sitting there.
471
00:24:34,647 --> 00:24:36,518
He was in handcuffs.
472
00:24:36,649 --> 00:24:38,215
His eyes were very glassy.
473
00:24:38,346 --> 00:24:41,697
I couldn't tell if he was
tired or if he was high.
474
00:24:41,784 --> 00:24:44,308
And I walked in,
and I just looked at him
475
00:24:44,395 --> 00:24:46,789
and said, do know who I am?
476
00:24:46,876 --> 00:24:50,358
And he just shook his head
and said, yes.
477
00:24:52,186 --> 00:24:55,885
I found out reading
the papers like everyone else.
478
00:24:55,972 --> 00:24:59,672
And I was worried that,
you know,
479
00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:02,283
a lot of others,
we would get arrested.
480
00:25:02,370 --> 00:25:06,548
Once Jordan got arrested,
being the genius that I am,
481
00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:10,334
seemed to me the higher ups
were next in line.
482
00:25:10,465 --> 00:25:12,380
It wasn't just gonna be Jordan.
483
00:25:15,905 --> 00:25:18,429
At a certain point,
I had a dinner
484
00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,780
with my partner at Biltmore.
485
00:25:20,867 --> 00:25:24,914
And I said, listen,
I just can't do this anymore.
486
00:25:25,045 --> 00:25:28,352
You know, I--
487
00:25:28,439 --> 00:25:32,792
I'm just overcome
with how awful this is.
488
00:25:32,879 --> 00:25:38,232
And the guilt had really
just sort of overcome me.
489
00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:40,582
And I said, I'm leaving.
490
00:25:40,669 --> 00:25:44,194
And I walked away from a lot,
because we had a lot of money
491
00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:45,891
in this trading account.
492
00:25:45,892 --> 00:25:47,937
I said, you keep it all,
do whatever you wanna do.
493
00:25:48,024 --> 00:25:49,459
I've had it.
494
00:25:49,460 --> 00:25:52,507
That was like, 1997, '98.
495
00:25:52,594 --> 00:25:54,378
I left.
496
00:25:54,465 --> 00:25:59,514
We hadn't been approached by
the U.S. attorneys or the FBI
497
00:25:59,645 --> 00:26:01,385
or anything at that point,
but I knew
498
00:26:01,472 --> 00:26:04,301
it was just a question of time.
499
00:26:04,432 --> 00:26:07,042
So we have Jordan Belfort
in custody,
500
00:26:07,043 --> 00:26:09,393
and Belfort is a bright guy.
501
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,307
I think if you see the movie,
502
00:26:11,308 --> 00:26:14,049
you get a somewhat rough,
approximate presentation
503
00:26:14,050 --> 00:26:15,138
of what happened.
504
00:26:15,225 --> 00:26:17,836
- Did you just say wear a wire?
- A wire.
505
00:26:17,837 --> 00:26:19,665
What does that mean?
You want me to rat?
506
00:26:19,752 --> 00:26:21,492
Is that it?
- No. I want you to cooperate.
507
00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:22,841
No, you want me to rat.
508
00:26:22,842 --> 00:26:25,061
That's fucking exactly
what we want you to do.
509
00:26:25,148 --> 00:26:26,062
To rat.
510
00:26:26,149 --> 00:26:27,193
And he did.
511
00:26:30,284 --> 00:26:32,067
It's the following Tuesday.
512
00:26:32,068 --> 00:26:35,202
And for Belfort,
he's now out of jail.
513
00:26:35,289 --> 00:26:37,683
Remember, this is
getting heavily covered.
514
00:26:37,813 --> 00:26:41,947
So we are trying
to perpetuate the image
515
00:26:41,948 --> 00:26:46,692
that he's fighting the case,
that he's not cooperating.
516
00:26:46,822 --> 00:26:49,302
So he's coming in
to meet in my office,
517
00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:51,131
coming in
through the back elevator,
518
00:26:51,261 --> 00:26:52,698
through a parking lot
so nobody could see him.
519
00:26:55,962 --> 00:27:01,663
We spent hours
and hours debriefing him.
520
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:03,709
So remember, when we're
hearing all these stories,
521
00:27:03,796 --> 00:27:05,493
there is no
"Wolf of Wall Street" books.
522
00:27:05,580 --> 00:27:07,495
There is no
"Wolf of Wall Street" movie.
523
00:27:07,582 --> 00:27:10,193
And when they would start to
tell you how things worked...
524
00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:15,285
Whoo!
525
00:27:15,372 --> 00:27:16,547
Their reaction was,
526
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:19,332
yeah, this is just
what we did every day.
527
00:27:19,333 --> 00:27:21,117
You know, the acts like
it was like ancient Rome,
528
00:27:21,248 --> 00:27:23,379
where you're like,
this is like the Colosseum.
529
00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:24,599
That is impressive.
530
00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:25,686
There was midget-tossing.
531
00:27:25,687 --> 00:27:27,254
People's heads
were being shaved.
532
00:27:27,384 --> 00:27:29,256
Goldfish were being eaten.
533
00:27:29,343 --> 00:27:31,258
It was almost like
adult Disneyland
534
00:27:31,345 --> 00:27:32,520
for dysfunctional people.
535
00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:37,612
The movie doesn't
even accurately portray
536
00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:40,136
the level of insanity
that occurred back then.
537
00:27:40,223 --> 00:27:44,401
Drugs, alcohol, prostitutes,
trade some more stock.
538
00:27:44,488 --> 00:27:47,143
Rewind,
do the same thing again.
539
00:27:47,230 --> 00:27:49,318
Greg and I would look at each
other and say, oh, my God.
540
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:51,365
This really happened.
541
00:27:51,495 --> 00:27:54,629
They would describe it the way
that somebody might describe
542
00:27:54,716 --> 00:27:57,545
what they ate for breakfast.
543
00:27:57,632 --> 00:28:01,941
For me, knowing he's going
to cooperate is fantastic.
544
00:28:02,071 --> 00:28:04,378
But the other thing
I needed to figure out was,
545
00:28:04,465 --> 00:28:06,772
is he really on board?
546
00:28:06,859 --> 00:28:09,078
Yes, he's been
speaking with us.
547
00:28:09,165 --> 00:28:14,388
Yes, he's got a recording
device and a transmitter.
548
00:28:14,475 --> 00:28:18,305
But sometimes these guys think
they're smarter than we are.
549
00:28:18,392 --> 00:28:21,612
And so I have to pick
the person
550
00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:24,137
that he is going to
visit first.
551
00:28:27,793 --> 00:28:30,534
When did you find out
he was wearing a wire?
552
00:28:30,621 --> 00:28:31,710
When I got arrested.
553
00:28:40,457 --> 00:28:43,547
Jordan was wearing
a wire several times a week.
554
00:28:43,634 --> 00:28:45,071
He did a lot of meetings
555
00:28:45,158 --> 00:28:48,988
in some of the fanciest
restaurants in New York,
556
00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:50,946
where he would be out
and about public,
557
00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:52,382
and people would see him,
and it would perpetuate
558
00:28:52,469 --> 00:28:54,688
the impression that
he was not pleading guilty,
559
00:28:54,689 --> 00:28:57,518
when in fact,
he had already pled guilty.
560
00:28:57,648 --> 00:29:00,739
He was very talented at this
561
00:29:00,826 --> 00:29:02,001
because Jordan
could get anybody
562
00:29:02,088 --> 00:29:04,743
into a conversation
about anything.
563
00:29:04,830 --> 00:29:07,658
He just was a natural at it.
564
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,486
Jordan came to me for help.
565
00:29:09,573 --> 00:29:10,836
Hey, can you help me?
566
00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:12,488
Take me to go--
come to an AA meeting.
567
00:29:12,489 --> 00:29:15,754
And he came to
an AA meeting with me.
568
00:29:15,841 --> 00:29:17,799
And he was asking me all
these questions and stuff,
569
00:29:17,886 --> 00:29:21,672
and I knew--I knew it was--
something wasn't kosher.
570
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,282
And then I remember
one time he took me
571
00:29:23,283 --> 00:29:25,851
to dinner by myself,
572
00:29:25,938 --> 00:29:28,027
asking me all these questions
and everything.
573
00:29:28,114 --> 00:29:29,549
You know, we went
through everything,
574
00:29:29,550 --> 00:29:30,899
what we were doing.
575
00:29:30,986 --> 00:29:33,119
We were promoting stocks
on a website.
576
00:29:33,249 --> 00:29:34,816
And we own the stocks.
577
00:29:34,903 --> 00:29:37,993
Jordan pretended
he wanted to get involved.
578
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,604
You know, you wanted it
to be true.
579
00:29:40,691 --> 00:29:44,869
I don't know how to explain how
you want--you close your eyes.
580
00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:47,916
I was an idiot
and I trusted him.
581
00:29:48,047 --> 00:29:50,005
I was warned
by a friend of mine
582
00:29:50,092 --> 00:29:51,572
that Jordan's gonna call you.
583
00:29:51,702 --> 00:29:55,228
And sure enough, he calls me.
584
00:29:57,796 --> 00:29:59,319
Hey, Ross. What's going on?
It's Jordan.
585
00:29:59,449 --> 00:30:00,624
You know, how's it going?
586
00:30:00,711 --> 00:30:01,625
He goes, what are you up to?
587
00:30:01,712 --> 00:30:02,539
I said, you know,
I'm divorced now.
588
00:30:02,626 --> 00:30:04,672
I'm living in Bayside again.
589
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:08,458
He goes, oh, are you renting
or do you own?
590
00:30:08,589 --> 00:30:10,111
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
591
00:30:10,112 --> 00:30:13,376
He would never, ever
ask a question like that.
592
00:30:13,463 --> 00:30:16,466
That was way out of character.
593
00:30:16,553 --> 00:30:21,602
Now I know he's recording me
and that was the end of it.
594
00:30:21,689 --> 00:30:23,691
That was the end
of our conversation.
595
00:30:23,778 --> 00:30:25,693
He's a rat piece of shit.
596
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,827
You know, why me?
597
00:30:28,914 --> 00:30:32,134
A few weeks later,
six FBI officers
598
00:30:32,221 --> 00:30:36,573
knocking on my door, guns drawn
like I was Al Capone.
599
00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:40,708
It got to the point
where every one of my partners
600
00:30:40,795 --> 00:30:42,884
had been arrested.
601
00:30:42,971 --> 00:30:44,755
And my brother
being an attorney
602
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,845
and being a very good one
and smart one,
603
00:30:46,932 --> 00:30:48,847
said, listen, asshole.
604
00:30:48,977 --> 00:30:52,502
You're the only one that
hasn't gotten arrested yet.
605
00:30:52,589 --> 00:30:55,548
So what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna go to them
606
00:30:55,549 --> 00:30:56,985
before they come to you.
607
00:30:57,072 --> 00:30:59,945
And that's precisely
what we did.
608
00:31:00,032 --> 00:31:02,295
We voluntarily
made an appointment
609
00:31:02,382 --> 00:31:07,300
to walk into the FBI
and said, here we are.
610
00:31:07,387 --> 00:31:10,085
And they asked me
to wear a wire.
611
00:31:10,172 --> 00:31:13,393
And then they told me
the consequences
612
00:31:13,523 --> 00:31:15,569
of disagreeing with them
on that.
613
00:31:15,699 --> 00:31:18,137
And I said, I agree.
614
00:31:18,224 --> 00:31:20,966
There were no tough guys here.
615
00:31:21,053 --> 00:31:22,444
Everyone was
ratting on everyone.
616
00:31:22,445 --> 00:31:25,971
No one could rat on
another one quick enough.
617
00:31:26,101 --> 00:31:28,103
I avoided ever
getting arrested,
618
00:31:28,190 --> 00:31:29,409
indicted, charged, nothing.
619
00:31:31,193 --> 00:31:33,674
There was a knock
on the door.
620
00:31:33,804 --> 00:31:36,198
It was a man and a woman.
621
00:31:36,285 --> 00:31:38,809
They opened up their coats
and sure enough,
622
00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:40,942
there was a badge and a gun.
623
00:31:41,029 --> 00:31:44,163
They said,
you are going to be indicted.
624
00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:47,949
And I can tell you that
if you talk to us now,
625
00:31:48,036 --> 00:31:50,343
we could probably make a deal.
626
00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:53,824
And I would have to wear
a wire and try to
627
00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:56,088
bring cases
against other people.
628
00:31:56,175 --> 00:32:00,221
And I said, I'm not
about to start
629
00:32:00,222 --> 00:32:02,267
trying to ruin
other people's lives.
630
00:32:02,268 --> 00:32:04,183
I mean, I just--
631
00:32:04,270 --> 00:32:07,403
I could not live with doing
that on top of everything else.
632
00:32:07,490 --> 00:32:09,274
So they said, okay,
if you change your mind,
633
00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:10,493
here's our card.
634
00:32:10,624 --> 00:32:12,104
And you'll be hearing from us.
635
00:32:13,888 --> 00:32:16,630
It was well over 80 people
that were prosecuted.
636
00:32:19,111 --> 00:32:22,462
It was like a rogues' list
of criminality.
637
00:32:22,549 --> 00:32:24,463
There were politicians that
were being investigated.
638
00:32:24,464 --> 00:32:27,249
There was money launderers.
639
00:32:27,336 --> 00:32:29,120
Even long after I left
the U.S. attorney's office,
640
00:32:29,121 --> 00:32:31,471
for about three or four years,
the office staffed
641
00:32:31,558 --> 00:32:33,908
about four or five
or six prosecutors who just
642
00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:35,517
handled all these cases
kinda full time
643
00:32:35,518 --> 00:32:38,173
because there were so many
cases that were the byproduct
644
00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:39,914
of their cooperation.
645
00:32:43,396 --> 00:32:46,877
Before sentencing, I brought
the judge about 200 cards
646
00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:49,402
and letters from AA people.
647
00:32:49,489 --> 00:32:54,624
Judge looked at me and said,
I think you're an idiot,
648
00:32:54,711 --> 00:32:58,454
and you can't even be
a janitor in a brokerage firm.
649
00:32:58,541 --> 00:33:00,761
But I'm not sending you
to jail.
650
00:33:00,848 --> 00:33:03,764
I was given three years'
probation.
651
00:33:03,851 --> 00:33:05,853
I ended up
taking a plea where
652
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,550
I admitted that
I had committed
653
00:33:08,551 --> 00:33:13,078
wire fraud
and securities fraud.
654
00:33:13,165 --> 00:33:17,081
And I ended up receiving
a couple of years
655
00:33:17,082 --> 00:33:20,868
in federal prison,
which I served.
656
00:33:20,955 --> 00:33:23,131
And now I'm a convicted felon.
657
00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:29,007
After Jordan got indicted
658
00:33:29,094 --> 00:33:31,444
and after they
seized everything,
659
00:33:31,531 --> 00:33:35,012
we invited him for dinner
one night at my house.
660
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,710
Jordan and I sat
in front of the fire,
661
00:33:36,797 --> 00:33:37,798
and we started talking.
662
00:33:37,885 --> 00:33:39,756
How have you been?
663
00:33:39,887 --> 00:33:41,106
And he's like,
I'm trying to see my kids.
664
00:33:41,193 --> 00:33:45,806
I have no money
to buy toys for my kids.
665
00:33:45,893 --> 00:33:48,590
I was in
the mortgage business.
666
00:33:48,591 --> 00:33:50,593
I started bringing him
to my office.
667
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,248
We start working together.
668
00:33:53,335 --> 00:33:55,772
And then, one day,
I get a call.
669
00:33:55,903 --> 00:33:59,037
Jordan just gave a meeting
in front of 50 people.
670
00:33:59,124 --> 00:34:00,821
And he said, oh, Rob is out.
671
00:34:00,908 --> 00:34:04,042
I'm taking over the company.
672
00:34:04,172 --> 00:34:05,129
So when I heard this,
I'm like, wow.
673
00:34:05,130 --> 00:34:09,699
This is his--
here he goes again.
674
00:34:09,786 --> 00:34:11,484
I said, what is wrong
with you?
675
00:34:11,571 --> 00:34:12,702
Don't you see what you did?
676
00:34:12,833 --> 00:34:15,096
It's over now.
677
00:34:15,183 --> 00:34:20,013
And that's when
the friendship went awry.
678
00:34:20,014 --> 00:34:24,018
After it all happened,
we all parted our ways.
679
00:34:24,105 --> 00:34:27,847
And Jordan had
an opportunity to--
680
00:34:27,848 --> 00:34:29,719
to reach out to me a few times.
681
00:34:29,806 --> 00:34:33,375
And one was when
my daughter was diagnosed
682
00:34:33,506 --> 00:34:36,509
with leukemia, Olivia.
683
00:34:36,596 --> 00:34:42,950
And she fought for her life
and eventually did die.
684
00:34:44,038 --> 00:34:45,474
Nadine was supportive.
685
00:34:45,561 --> 00:34:47,737
All of our friends
were supportive.
686
00:34:47,868 --> 00:34:50,958
And never...
687
00:34:51,045 --> 00:34:55,963
Not even--not a card,
not a phone call.
688
00:34:56,050 --> 00:34:58,313
Not a message to us.
689
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,186
Nothing.
690
00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:03,884
Did he let me down a lot?
Yeah, he let me down.
691
00:35:06,756 --> 00:35:09,716
Jordan and Danny both
pled guilty to indictments
692
00:35:09,803 --> 00:35:13,589
where they admitted
to everything.
693
00:35:13,676 --> 00:35:16,244
Every single one of the
34 initial public offerings
694
00:35:16,375 --> 00:35:18,072
that they brought
through Stratton Oakmont
695
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,335
was riddled with fraud
from beginning to end,
696
00:35:20,422 --> 00:35:22,337
and also money laundering
697
00:35:22,424 --> 00:35:24,904
involving the Swiss activities.
698
00:35:24,905 --> 00:35:28,430
They were facing anywhere
from 16 to 20 years in jail.
699
00:35:28,517 --> 00:35:32,217
But the judge
has total discretion
700
00:35:32,304 --> 00:35:35,959
to sentence Belfort
anywhere he wants,
701
00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:38,310
including no time at all.
702
00:35:40,268 --> 00:35:43,096
At the end of the day,
the judge came up
703
00:35:43,097 --> 00:35:45,926
with a sentencing package
that sentenced Belfort
704
00:35:46,013 --> 00:35:48,276
to four years in jail.
705
00:35:51,236 --> 00:35:53,325
I remember leaving
that courtroom
706
00:35:53,412 --> 00:35:55,979
and calling up a few
of my FBI friends
707
00:35:56,066 --> 00:35:57,937
and throwing the F word around,
708
00:35:57,938 --> 00:36:00,114
probably more than
I should have.
709
00:36:00,245 --> 00:36:03,725
That sentence was painful
to find out about.
710
00:36:03,726 --> 00:36:05,685
He should have gone away
for 20 years.
711
00:36:05,772 --> 00:36:07,034
A minimum of 20 years.
712
00:36:09,123 --> 00:36:11,256
There was many questions
asked about that.
713
00:36:11,343 --> 00:36:12,953
How did they get such
a significant reduction
714
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,259
in their sentences?
715
00:36:14,389 --> 00:36:15,956
One is the amount
of cooperation
716
00:36:16,043 --> 00:36:19,133
that they gave was so extreme,
717
00:36:19,264 --> 00:36:22,136
it brought down so many
other bad actors.
718
00:36:22,267 --> 00:36:24,530
Second was they were
fortunate in that they got
719
00:36:24,617 --> 00:36:27,707
assigned Judge John Gleeson.
720
00:36:27,794 --> 00:36:30,840
Judge Gleeson is the person
who took down John Gotti.
721
00:36:30,927 --> 00:36:33,800
Running the nation's largest
organized crime family.
722
00:36:33,887 --> 00:36:36,803
And one of the key witnesses
he had to use in the Gotti case
723
00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:40,285
was someone who had been
involved in murders.
724
00:36:40,372 --> 00:36:42,983
And so Judge Gleeson
appreciated
725
00:36:43,070 --> 00:36:45,725
the value of cooperation
more than almost anyone.
726
00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:49,511
Justice was done because
a lot of really bad actors
727
00:36:49,598 --> 00:36:50,947
and people working with them
were stopped.
728
00:37:00,653 --> 00:37:03,395
In hindsight,
he did 22 months
729
00:37:03,525 --> 00:37:05,962
in a country club
federal penitentiary,
730
00:37:06,093 --> 00:37:12,230
like in the movie, a camp that
he played tennis every day.
731
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,667
And what a small world
that Tommy Chong
732
00:37:14,754 --> 00:37:18,236
from Cheech and Chong
would be his bunkie?
733
00:37:18,323 --> 00:37:20,542
How do you describe
your brand of humor?
734
00:37:20,673 --> 00:37:22,849
Pot. Pot humor.
735
00:37:22,936 --> 00:37:25,025
How much a part does that
play in your comedy skits?
736
00:37:25,112 --> 00:37:28,289
It depends on
how much you take.
737
00:37:28,376 --> 00:37:31,684
Tommy Chong
of Cheech and Chong fame--
738
00:37:31,771 --> 00:37:35,514
comedian, star of many movies,
739
00:37:35,601 --> 00:37:38,778
smoker of many joints.
740
00:37:38,865 --> 00:37:40,475
And it was Tommy Chong
that said,
741
00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:42,347
you need to write a book.
742
00:37:42,434 --> 00:37:44,435
We would tell each
other stories at night,
743
00:37:44,436 --> 00:37:45,828
and I would tell them
some of my stories,
744
00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:46,786
and he would just be laughing
and couldn't believe it.
745
00:37:46,873 --> 00:37:48,570
Then he--
746
00:37:48,657 --> 00:37:49,528
Saying, there's no
way that could be true.
747
00:37:49,615 --> 00:37:50,920
After the third day, he goes,
I thought
748
00:37:51,007 --> 00:37:52,618
you were making this stuff up.
But my wife googled you.
749
00:37:52,748 --> 00:37:54,489
And it's like,
you gotta write a book.
750
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:56,361
And he started
writing a book in jail.
751
00:38:01,453 --> 00:38:06,240
The minute you step in
prison is a traumatic event,
752
00:38:06,371 --> 00:38:09,591
but in a very weird way,
I'm glad I went through it.
753
00:38:09,678 --> 00:38:11,201
Because I needed it.
754
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,726
It taught me about humility.
755
00:38:13,813 --> 00:38:16,598
There's something about
scrubbing the toilets
756
00:38:16,685 --> 00:38:20,341
for 100 men every day that
teaches you lessons
757
00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:23,388
that I desperately
needed to learn.
758
00:38:23,475 --> 00:38:26,041
You know, my higher power
took care of me, punished me.
759
00:38:26,042 --> 00:38:29,306
I went through hell
for two years.
760
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:32,440
I had small pieces
of cancer removed.
761
00:38:32,527 --> 00:38:36,314
Two weeks later,
I got sepsis in my stomach.
762
00:38:36,444 --> 00:38:38,968
I was put in a coma
for seven days,
763
00:38:39,055 --> 00:38:43,451
where I died twice
on the table.
764
00:38:43,538 --> 00:38:46,280
It was terrible life.
It was just terrible.
765
00:38:46,367 --> 00:38:49,238
God's punishment.
766
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,981
I was at rock bottom.
767
00:38:52,112 --> 00:38:55,898
I was living by myself.
768
00:38:55,985 --> 00:38:59,162
How my dog survived,
I'll never know.
769
00:38:59,249 --> 00:39:02,469
But I had gone
from this person
770
00:39:02,470 --> 00:39:04,646
who lived like a prince,
771
00:39:04,777 --> 00:39:07,693
making $1 1/2 million a year,
772
00:39:07,823 --> 00:39:12,480
to being an obese drug addict,
homeless,
773
00:39:12,567 --> 00:39:16,266
penniless, friendless,
and everything else.
774
00:39:18,312 --> 00:39:22,447
I was smart enough to,
when the chair stopped moving,
775
00:39:22,577 --> 00:39:24,579
to have $1 million.
776
00:39:24,666 --> 00:39:29,584
And if I was sober enough,
I'd be retired today.
777
00:39:29,671 --> 00:39:32,587
I never had a shortage
of opportunities
778
00:39:32,674 --> 00:39:34,372
present themselves.
779
00:39:34,502 --> 00:39:40,247
I was just always too much of a
mess to take advantage of them.
780
00:39:40,334 --> 00:39:44,991
I, at this point, was so
addicted that my brother
781
00:39:45,078 --> 00:39:47,515
got me into a sober house.
782
00:39:47,646 --> 00:39:50,126
I walked into the sober house.
783
00:39:50,257 --> 00:39:54,827
And here I am, in Ferragamo
shoes, Louis Vuitton luggage.
784
00:39:54,914 --> 00:39:56,959
Everyone's looking at me
like I gotta be the biggest
785
00:39:57,090 --> 00:39:58,874
fucking asshole in history.
786
00:39:58,961 --> 00:40:02,443
And all of a sudden, out of
the guy's office, I hear,
787
00:40:02,530 --> 00:40:05,968
"Howie fucking Gelfand?"
788
00:40:06,099 --> 00:40:08,492
Guy comes out
of the manager's room,
789
00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:12,713
and it's a kid
I knew from high school.
790
00:40:12,714 --> 00:40:16,196
And what does he have
in his hand?
791
00:40:16,283 --> 00:40:18,459
"The Wolf of Wall Street" book.
792
00:40:23,464 --> 00:40:24,726
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
tells
793
00:40:24,857 --> 00:40:26,511
the real life story
of Jordan Belfort.
794
00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:29,077
The one-time stockbroker
spent 22 months in prison.
795
00:40:29,078 --> 00:40:32,430
When Jordan's book came out,
did you read the book?
796
00:40:32,517 --> 00:40:33,560
I read the book.
797
00:40:33,561 --> 00:40:35,520
What did you think?
798
00:40:35,607 --> 00:40:37,565
I was mentioned in the book
and I wasn't mentioned
799
00:40:37,652 --> 00:40:41,743
very nicely,
but I understood it.
800
00:40:41,874 --> 00:40:47,096
I think Jordan Belfort
is the classic anti-hero.
801
00:40:47,183 --> 00:40:48,794
There's every reason
to not like him.
802
00:40:48,924 --> 00:40:51,884
He has a lot of traits
that are not likable.
803
00:40:51,971 --> 00:40:55,235
But for some reason,
you are rooting for him.
804
00:40:55,365 --> 00:40:57,759
And I can tell you
from knowing him personally,
805
00:40:57,890 --> 00:41:00,240
I felt that way myself.
806
00:41:00,327 --> 00:41:02,547
I bought the book.
807
00:41:02,677 --> 00:41:03,548
I got on the subway.
808
00:41:06,812 --> 00:41:08,683
And I turned to the yacht page.
809
00:41:08,770 --> 00:41:11,599
And I saw my name,
my ex-wife's name,
810
00:41:11,686 --> 00:41:15,603
what we did in life,
how our lives were.
811
00:41:15,690 --> 00:41:18,476
I'm like, what the fuck
is wrong with this guy?
812
00:41:18,563 --> 00:41:20,478
He needs to embellish
himself that much
813
00:41:20,565 --> 00:41:22,654
that he has to name people?
814
00:41:22,741 --> 00:41:26,527
He mentioned how Rob's
the cheapest guy alive.
815
00:41:26,614 --> 00:41:29,748
Most of the people he talked
about, he made fun of.
816
00:41:29,835 --> 00:41:33,446
You know, it's just constant
little jabs at people.
817
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:38,278
Whether it's his wife, his
friends, his friends' wives,
818
00:41:38,365 --> 00:41:40,541
very rarely something
good about somebody.
819
00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:42,151
He wrote this book.
820
00:41:42,238 --> 00:41:43,588
You know, I read it.
821
00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:46,591
And I was like,
what the hell is this?
822
00:41:46,678 --> 00:41:48,244
And he's like, no,
I did it for you.
823
00:41:48,331 --> 00:41:49,810
I did it for us.
824
00:41:49,811 --> 00:41:50,812
I'm like, no,
you didn't do it for me.
825
00:41:50,943 --> 00:41:51,813
I'm happily remarried.
826
00:41:51,944 --> 00:41:53,859
You did it for you.
That's okay.
827
00:41:53,989 --> 00:41:55,991
I don't agree with what you're
doing, but it's your life.
828
00:41:56,078 --> 00:41:57,515
You gotta do it, right?
829
00:41:57,645 --> 00:42:00,561
And then there were rumors
that a movie was coming out.
830
00:42:02,650 --> 00:42:04,957
And I'm like,
there's no fucking way.
831
00:42:05,044 --> 00:42:07,698
As long as you portray
people as authentically
832
00:42:07,699 --> 00:42:10,745
as you possibly can, and you
give an accurate portrayal
833
00:42:10,876 --> 00:42:15,141
of their very nature, audiences
will go along with you on that.
834
00:42:15,228 --> 00:42:16,969
What guy on Wall Street
wouldn't wanna have
835
00:42:17,056 --> 00:42:19,493
Leonardo DiCaprio
play you in the movie?
836
00:42:22,409 --> 00:42:24,411
The movie becomes a sensation.
837
00:42:27,283 --> 00:42:29,242
Everyone's talking
about Martin Scorsese's
838
00:42:29,372 --> 00:42:31,287
"The Wolf of Wall Street."
839
00:42:31,418 --> 00:42:33,942
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
is closing in on $100 million
840
00:42:34,029 --> 00:42:35,290
in box office.
841
00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:36,771
Five Oscar nominations.
842
00:42:36,858 --> 00:42:38,599
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
has received
843
00:42:38,686 --> 00:42:40,862
two Golden Globe nominations.
844
00:42:40,949 --> 00:42:44,691
And like the phoenix rising,
Jordan Belfort is actually
845
00:42:44,692 --> 00:42:46,172
able to reinvent himself.
846
00:42:46,259 --> 00:42:48,261
In that book,
I came up with the most
847
00:42:48,348 --> 00:42:52,047
effective persuasion strategy
in the history of Wall Street.
848
00:42:52,134 --> 00:42:55,528
He goes on TV shows
to pitch a sales technique,
849
00:42:55,529 --> 00:42:58,401
starts giving lectures,
and is able to start
850
00:42:58,488 --> 00:43:02,449
a whole motivational speaking
lifestyle, business.
851
00:43:02,536 --> 00:43:04,146
When you get hit
with an objection,
852
00:43:04,233 --> 00:43:07,889
you engage in something
called deflection.
853
00:43:07,976 --> 00:43:11,806
Fueled by nonstop
stream of online videos.
854
00:43:11,893 --> 00:43:14,460
And you look within
yourself and find you,
855
00:43:14,461 --> 00:43:16,768
find your best self.
856
00:43:16,898 --> 00:43:20,728
Start a free trial right now
and get a 20% discount.
857
00:43:20,859 --> 00:43:24,123
Jordan has become a legend.
858
00:43:24,253 --> 00:43:27,169
The legendary Wolf of
Wall Street, Jordan Belfort.
859
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:30,216
It's the real
Wolf of Wall Street.
860
00:43:30,303 --> 00:43:32,653
Belfort!
861
00:43:32,740 --> 00:43:34,785
I got the chest bump.
All right.
862
00:43:34,786 --> 00:43:38,833
Jordan is treated
by social media influencers
863
00:43:38,964 --> 00:43:43,403
as kind of an influential
figure, a role model.
864
00:43:43,533 --> 00:43:46,711
The younger generation
really looks up to him.
865
00:43:46,841 --> 00:43:48,974
I will not die sober.
866
00:43:49,104 --> 00:43:50,497
Are you gonna die sober?
867
00:43:50,584 --> 00:43:53,848
They wish that they had
been there for the fun
868
00:43:53,935 --> 00:43:56,416
and the money and the women.
869
00:43:56,546 --> 00:44:02,074
Every time I go on Instagram,
he's in my face.
870
00:44:02,161 --> 00:44:03,422
These people.
871
00:44:03,423 --> 00:44:04,642
"Wish I could meet you."
872
00:44:04,729 --> 00:44:07,949
"Legendary" with two flames.
873
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,735
"Wow! Wish I was there."
874
00:44:10,865 --> 00:44:12,432
To what?
875
00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:15,565
Become a fucking drug addict
and get arrested?
876
00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:19,003
I see that he's got, like,
upcoming trips to Miami,
877
00:44:19,004 --> 00:44:23,095
Brazil, Florida, Poland?
878
00:44:23,182 --> 00:44:25,618
And now he gets $100,000.
879
00:44:25,619 --> 00:44:28,143
He does speeches,
fly in private jets.
880
00:44:28,230 --> 00:44:31,407
But the real way to make money
is to invest in yourself.
881
00:44:32,887 --> 00:44:35,194
There's thousands
and thousands of victims
882
00:44:35,281 --> 00:44:36,891
that have bought stocks
that these guys
883
00:44:36,978 --> 00:44:38,676
put them into and lost
a lot of money.
884
00:44:38,806 --> 00:44:41,069
People would be
literally wiped out.
885
00:44:41,156 --> 00:44:44,203
Jordan was ordered to pay
more than 110 million
886
00:44:44,290 --> 00:44:47,641
by the government as part of
his sentence for his crimes.
887
00:44:47,772 --> 00:44:49,424
I've been trying to
settle this thing for years,
888
00:44:49,425 --> 00:44:51,906
and they have essentially
stonewalled me at every step.
889
00:44:52,037 --> 00:44:53,734
So I've said enough about this.
Let's move on.
890
00:44:53,821 --> 00:44:55,256
Let me ask you
this one thing, though.
891
00:44:55,257 --> 00:44:56,650
Let's move on, okay?
892
00:44:56,781 --> 00:44:58,957
Honestly, I'm ready--I'm not
gonna get attacked here.
893
00:44:59,044 --> 00:45:01,220
You're here.
So I'm done with this. Next.
894
00:45:01,350 --> 00:45:04,049
The judge ordered that
the defendants contribute
895
00:45:04,136 --> 00:45:06,138
half of their proceeds,
half of their profits,
896
00:45:06,225 --> 00:45:08,793
to this restitution fund.
897
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,100
If you look at other people
in my position,
898
00:45:12,187 --> 00:45:14,799
I'm the only one who,
over the long term,
899
00:45:14,929 --> 00:45:16,496
has been paying back investors.
900
00:45:16,583 --> 00:45:18,018
And I'm proud of that.
901
00:45:18,019 --> 00:45:19,238
And, you know,
my goal one day would
902
00:45:19,325 --> 00:45:21,066
be to pay back all the money.
903
00:45:21,196 --> 00:45:22,763
Various victims'
representatives
904
00:45:22,850 --> 00:45:24,677
would come to court
and raise concerns,
905
00:45:24,678 --> 00:45:26,853
while the government
tries to do what it can
906
00:45:26,854 --> 00:45:29,857
to make victims whole,
it's often
907
00:45:29,988 --> 00:45:31,641
next to impossible to do that.
908
00:45:44,045 --> 00:45:46,047
I had worked hard
to accumulate that money.
909
00:45:46,134 --> 00:45:49,442
And it was all the money
I had at the time.
910
00:45:49,529 --> 00:45:53,402
I was fortunate that I could
pick up extra shifts at work.
911
00:45:53,533 --> 00:45:56,491
I worked for a long time,
912
00:45:56,492 --> 00:45:58,451
like 18 hours a day,
7 days a week.
913
00:45:58,581 --> 00:46:00,408
You know?
914
00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:02,063
The first day I took off was
when my daughter got married,
915
00:46:02,194 --> 00:46:03,848
I think, yeah.
916
00:46:03,978 --> 00:46:06,067
Money comes hard
and it goes easy.
917
00:46:06,198 --> 00:46:08,200
You know, you work
your tail off and poof,
918
00:46:08,287 --> 00:46:10,332
it goes like that.
919
00:46:10,463 --> 00:46:12,160
They knew the whole game.
920
00:46:12,291 --> 00:46:15,816
They sold their soul
for the money, basically.
921
00:46:15,903 --> 00:46:19,428
You know, they have
to live with that.
922
00:46:22,649 --> 00:46:27,175
The Stratton years
of the damage I caused
923
00:46:27,262 --> 00:46:31,789
for these people
eats away at me to this day.
924
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:37,142
I had felt such remorse.
925
00:46:37,272 --> 00:46:41,537
And the more sober I got,
the more remorse I felt.
926
00:46:43,757 --> 00:46:46,891
The lifestyle that
we all led was great,
927
00:46:46,978 --> 00:46:49,154
but I wasn't aware
that the money
928
00:46:49,284 --> 00:46:51,547
was literally being taken
from people's
929
00:46:51,678 --> 00:46:53,593
lives and their savings.
930
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,162
It all funneled into everything
that was bought and purchased
931
00:46:57,292 --> 00:46:59,425
and lifestyles
and the car I drove.
932
00:46:59,512 --> 00:47:01,122
And it was all
a big part of that.
933
00:47:04,778 --> 00:47:07,301
And I feel--honestly,
I have guilt.
934
00:47:07,302 --> 00:47:09,217
I feel guilt.
935
00:47:09,304 --> 00:47:14,527
I let my greed and my ego
stand in the way
936
00:47:14,614 --> 00:47:18,357
of my better judgment
and my morality.
937
00:47:18,444 --> 00:47:20,707
I don't think the fact
that I feel guilty about it
938
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:22,578
makes me any better a guy.
939
00:47:22,709 --> 00:47:24,275
I think it makes me a worse guy
940
00:47:24,276 --> 00:47:26,495
'cause I knew
what I was doing was wrong.
941
00:47:26,582 --> 00:47:29,934
I regret letting
myself be blind.
942
00:47:30,064 --> 00:47:31,936
I regret hurting people.
943
00:47:32,023 --> 00:47:33,807
People lost money.
944
00:47:33,938 --> 00:47:35,374
You could say,
they take the risk
945
00:47:35,461 --> 00:47:36,984
and they could afford the risk.
946
00:47:37,115 --> 00:47:38,725
You could use
all the excuses you want.
947
00:47:38,812 --> 00:47:40,248
But the truth of the matter is,
948
00:47:40,335 --> 00:47:42,903
they had no chance
of making money.
949
00:47:44,557 --> 00:47:46,776
If you could talk to the
victims who lost their money,
950
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:48,561
what would you say to them?
951
00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:52,173
What would I say to them?
952
00:47:52,260 --> 00:47:55,219
You know, all I can say is,
believe me,
953
00:47:55,220 --> 00:47:56,656
I paid a price for it.
954
00:47:56,743 --> 00:47:58,397
But I don't expect
your forgiveness.
955
00:47:58,527 --> 00:48:00,399
I haven't forgiven myself.
956
00:48:00,486 --> 00:48:02,053
Why should you?
957
00:48:04,142 --> 00:48:06,405
Do you have any regrets?
958
00:48:06,492 --> 00:48:07,406
Not one.
959
00:48:07,493 --> 00:48:09,190
Hi, Chandler!
960
00:48:09,321 --> 00:48:11,366
I have
my beautiful children.
961
00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:13,891
And my daughter's a therapist.
962
00:48:13,978 --> 00:48:17,503
And she just gave birth,
so I have a beautiful grandson.
963
00:48:17,590 --> 00:48:18,851
And my son's a musician.
964
00:48:18,852 --> 00:48:21,507
And I have three
beautiful stepdaughters.
965
00:48:23,204 --> 00:48:28,035
So life turned out good.
966
00:48:28,122 --> 00:48:32,083
So Jordan's story,
when he gives talks,
967
00:48:32,170 --> 00:48:33,911
when he's doing interviews,
968
00:48:33,998 --> 00:48:37,697
it's a story
about his redemption.
969
00:48:37,784 --> 00:48:40,134
How do you wanna be
remembered?
970
00:48:40,221 --> 00:48:41,744
As the ultimate
comeback story,
971
00:48:41,831 --> 00:48:44,269
ultimate redemption story.
972
00:48:44,356 --> 00:48:47,402
Part of Jordan's narrative
is that he took people
973
00:48:47,489 --> 00:48:50,536
from the gutter and turned them
into millionaires.
974
00:48:50,623 --> 00:48:52,930
The thing about my life that
I think, really, when you get
975
00:48:53,017 --> 00:48:58,326
down to it, is that I made
all these disempowered kids
976
00:48:58,413 --> 00:49:00,372
into superstars.
977
00:49:00,459 --> 00:49:01,851
This is not a guy
who deserves to be
978
00:49:01,939 --> 00:49:03,897
giving interviews of being
an expert on something.
979
00:49:04,028 --> 00:49:05,333
In the book,
I really show you
980
00:49:05,464 --> 00:49:08,554
a system that is about being
100% honest, integrous.
981
00:49:08,641 --> 00:49:11,383
Anyone who falls
for that crap is an idiot.
982
00:49:11,470 --> 00:49:16,257
My life into itself serves
as inspiration to people.
983
00:49:16,344 --> 00:49:20,087
Jordan affected and hurt a
lot of people and no remorse.
984
00:49:20,174 --> 00:49:21,959
I guess I can say
I'm proud that I was
985
00:49:22,046 --> 00:49:23,917
able to turn my life around.
986
00:49:24,004 --> 00:49:26,702
I see the same old Jordan.
987
00:49:26,789 --> 00:49:31,055
He has reinvented himself,
but he really is, at his heart,
988
00:49:31,142 --> 00:49:32,056
just a salesman.
989
00:49:32,186 --> 00:49:33,492
My message is this.
990
00:49:33,579 --> 00:49:36,190
There's only one way
to get rich, and that's quick.
991
00:49:36,321 --> 00:49:37,583
And he's just selling
a different product now.
992
00:49:37,670 --> 00:49:38,845
And the product is Jordan.
993
00:49:40,629 --> 00:49:43,981
He went from felon
to cooperator,
994
00:49:44,111 --> 00:49:46,940
and then he writes this book.
995
00:49:47,027 --> 00:49:51,249
Now he was the Leonardo
DiCaprio guy in the movie,
996
00:49:51,336 --> 00:49:53,903
and then he becomes
reincarnated as a celebrity.
997
00:49:57,211 --> 00:49:58,256
Only in America.
998
00:50:04,871 --> 00:50:09,006
♪ I like the way
you control everything ♪
999
00:50:09,093 --> 00:50:11,878
♪ I never stop
from letting go ♪
1000
00:50:11,965 --> 00:50:15,099
♪ Never stop from letting go ♪
1001
00:50:15,186 --> 00:50:17,666
♪ You got me down
on the floor ♪
1002
00:50:17,753 --> 00:50:22,193
♪ Oh, you've got me beggin'
you for so much more ♪
1003
00:50:22,323 --> 00:50:24,108
♪ Beggin' you
for so much more ♪
1004
00:50:24,238 --> 00:50:25,544
♪ 'Cause the way
that you tease me ♪
1005
00:50:25,674 --> 00:50:29,287
♪ Keeps me holding on ♪
1006
00:50:29,374 --> 00:50:30,723
♪ And the way that
you treat me ♪
1007
00:50:30,810 --> 00:50:32,246
♪ Brings me back for more ♪
1008
00:50:32,333 --> 00:50:37,469
♪ So come on,
jump into the flames ♪
1009
00:50:37,556 --> 00:50:42,256
♪ And I just need
to feel your fire ♪
1010
00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:47,827
♪ So come and jump
into the flames ♪
1011
00:50:47,914 --> 00:50:52,266
♪ And I just need
to feel your fire ♪
1012
00:50:52,353 --> 00:50:57,663
♪ So come and jump
into the flames ♪
1013
00:50:57,750 --> 00:51:02,711
♪ And give in
to your dark desires ♪
1014
00:51:02,798 --> 00:51:09,370
♪ So I can feel
the heat on you ♪
1015
00:51:13,157 --> 00:51:18,510
♪ Come on and jump
into the flames ♪
1016
00:51:21,730 --> 00:51:26,083
♪ Jump into the flames ♪