In "The Wolf of Wall Street," Donnie Azoff (Danny Porush's fictional counterpart) approaches Belfort at a restaurant about what he does for a living, after seeing Belfort's Jaguar in the parking lot. So I walked into this office park in Lake Success, and there was no sign that says Stratton Oakmont or anything but theres a line of cars Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, Mercedes. In the 2013 film, The Wolf of Wall Street, the audience gets the notion that not everything that Stratton Oakmont is doing is on the up-and-up. It was founded by Jordan Belfort and Kenny Greene, and was later bought by Danny Porush. In all, six people pleaded guilty to criminal charges in an operation that netted more than $7 million. Belfort soon went out on his own, founding Stratton Oakmont with Danny Porush, where they began targeting rich investors using a persuasive script and "pump and dump" tactics making Belfort, Porush and their brokers rich, while leaving their clients broke. 14, Brain Scanlon, a broker so well-known for his smooth talking phone tactics that tapes of him selling stocks via cold calls were passed around in finance in the early 2000s. In 1999 he was indicted for fraud and money laundering concerning his firm Stratton Oakmont's market manipulation schemes that evaporated millions of investor dollars. When the real Jordan Belfort crashed his car while on Quaaludes, he was in a Mercedes Benz rather than a Lamborghini, and someone was actually injured. His scam, which amounts to "you bought, we sold" is among the oldest in the investment industry. Why Do Cross Country Runners Have Skinny Legs? As screenwriter Terence Winter told Esquire, "I'd much rather watch somebody who isn't responsible, who makes all the wrong decisions and hangs out with the wrong people. And I just remember thinking, Wow, shes an incredible girl.. His. The process, in which only a handful people knew what was in the column before the magazine went out, worked well but for a single flaw: greed. "I took him to Rao's and he was so stoned he fell asleep in his fucking macaroni!". His firm, Stratton Oakmont, named to sound like a venerable white shoe firm, started as a phone bank in the show room of an abandoned car lot in Queens. Belfort used his name in his book, but after Porush threatened to sue the films producers, they changed it to Donnie Azoff.