Belfort has been criticised for benefiting financially by at least $1m from the sale of the screen rights to his life story, despite the fact that he has paid only $11.6m out of the $110.4m he was bound over to pay victims as part of his sentencing in 2003. The former broker told the Hollywood Reporter he believes he is no longer obliged to pay 50% of his income in restitution, as US justice department officials have stated.
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after penn state tore down their paterno statue, the PSU alumni association erected a new one off campus
I think it's hard to argue that Jordan Belfort was ruined by his own rapacity when he is a real life dude who is living better than anyone arguing that he got what was coming to him