Jordan Belfort

'I’ll make this year more than I ever made in my best year as a broker'.

'The Wolf of Wall Street' was supposed to expose the worst of Wall Street excess and corruption, but new data show it may have had the opposite effect.

Jordan Belfort, the author of two books about his life as the rapacious 'Wolf of Wall Street' and now a prominent motivational speaker, is sending mixed messages, federal prosecutors say.

Long before Leonardo DiCaprio started shooting scenes recreating the drinking, drugging and debauchery of the '90s for the Martin Scorsese film "The Wolf of Wall Street," CNBC profiled the man behind the story, Jordan Belfort.

Jordan Belfort, aka the Wolf of Wall Street, hates it when people describe him as a criminal. ''Convicted stock swindler’ - it’s like it hurts my heart'' he says, practically shuddering.