Jordan Belfort

Jordan Ross Belfort born July 9 1962 is an American author motivational speaker former stockbroker and convicted felon In 1999 he pled guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stockmarket manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a pennystock scam Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007 which was adapted into a film with the same name and released in 2013