Publication

2013 - Random House Publishing Group, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

129,750 words, Guess

Page Count

519 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC332.6/2092
  • DDCB
  • LCCHG4928.5 .B45 2013

Description

Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest chop shop brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks.

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Other Editions

  • The wolf of Wall StreetRandom House Publishing Group2013-01-01

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