Everyone here should see WOWS, plus "Boiler Room" which came out in 2000. WOWS is reported to set a record for the F-word, 508 times. I can't recall any film depicting more drug use. The period shown goes up to Hartcourt's start ... from the early 80s thru the collapse of Belfort's firm in 1998. I enjoyed the three hour long film and Dicaprio is certainly good in it.
It was interesting to see how the Feds got the key characters to rat on each other at the end. Belfort wore a wire. In the Possino trial, 60,000 wiretapped phone calls should be decisive.
Possino's stocks were also sold by boiler rooms during that period. But that was mostly done from outside the U.S. (often Thailand). Young Belfort gets less than 3 years in a Club-Fed prison (rooming with actor Tommy Chong, btw), writes two best-selling books and is in the sales motivation business now.
OTOH Possino, a 67 year old disbarred lawyer with priors, may die in jail.
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