Jordan Belfort, the pump-and-dump scammer immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” said in a lawsuit Thursday that he was victimized by a far grander scam perp…
,” said in a lawsuit Thursday that he was victimized by a far grander scam perpetrated by the film’s producers.Red Granite Pictures
Aziz is currently facing corruption charges in Malaysia for allegedly embezzling $248 million from 1MDB, a state-run development fund. Aziz’s stepfather, Najib Razak, was ousted as prime minister in the wake of the alleged theft of some $4.5 billion from the fund. According to the suit, Belfort believed Aziz when he said that Red Granite’s money came from legitimate sources, including high-net worth individuals and Goldman Sachs.
“I met these guys, and said to Anne ‚ ‘These guys are f—ing criminals,'” Belfort said in the interview. A few months after he sold the rights, he said the company threw a multi-million dollar launch party at Cannes. “I said to Anne, ‘This is a f—ing scam, anybody who does this has stolen money.’… I knew it, it was so obvious.”
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