The cold callers were dressed in Van Heusen shirts and ties - nothing too expensive. The office was basically separated into two parts: the cold callers in the back, and the brokers in the front. Jordan Belfort, here played by Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” created a cult of money making at Stratton Oakmont. It was almost cultish, and you were hooked in from Day 1. The energy was just unbounding and unstoppable, and you wanted to be a part of it. The music was the phones and the people talking. It was like walking into a nightclub without the music. I was blown away by the intensity - you could feel the pulse when you walked into the place. Do you want to make a million dollars a year? Do you want to make $100,000 a month? This is how you do it.” Everyone on the phone, people standing up, people screaming into the phones, and Porush had a big old office in the corner, with golden golf clubs and souvenirs and signed baseballs - just a really lavish office. So then I walked into the board room, a humongous room with 300 people in it. So I walked into this office park in Lake Success, and there was no sign that says Stratton Oakmont or anything but there’s a line of cars - Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, Mercedes.Īnd I’m like ‘‘Whoa!” It looked like a car show. I was 22 and came back to New York in 1993, when my father, who’s a doctor, said, “Danny” - the son of Jerry Porush, a nephrologist my father was partners with - “is making a lot of money at this stock-broker place. It wasn’t a Long Island Jewish kid thing to do. I was the only Jew in the Marines at the time - or one of the few, for sure. Here’s his story, as told to The Post’s Gary Buiso.Īfter high school, I joined the Marines. “The lie becomes the truth,” said Shapiro, 41, who eventually became disillusioned, traded in his Porsche for a Buick, and left finance entirely for a life devoted to helping people. Shapiro idolized scheme masterminds Jordan Belfort and Danny Porush, who will be immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” out on Christmas. In his early 20s, he was pulling down tens of thousands of dollars a month, working hard and partying harder at Stratton Oakmont, the notorious Long Island boiler room that sold investors the moon but delivered sawdust. When most people his age were still figuring out what they wanted to do for a living, Josh Shapiro had a clear-cut plan - make as much money as possible. 'Lewd' scene with Margot Robbie in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' was trueĪrtist gives QB 'Wolf of Wall Street' treatment '209 days' into NFL trade drama Margot Robbie reveals how she prepped for 'Wolf of Wall Street’ nude scene with Leonardo DiCaprio I’m a Margot Robbie look-alike – stunned fans ask me to marry them
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