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Do you think it is misleading to your cause to say "The Koch brothers have pledged to spend $889M on 2016 races"? It implies that Charles and David Koch are personally spending 900mil, but when you read the stories reporting this, they say that this is the number for their "groups" which total 300 donors. In fact, they write that the Kochs' equivalent circle in 2012 spent $400 million while in reality the actual humans Charles and David Koch spent just over 2 million each. According to this website, the top two individual political donors spent 50x the Koch bros, and on Democrats. Do you feel that the reporting of "buying elections" has largely ignored corporatism on the left? https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php

Exactly. One second you torrent, next second you overdose on quaaludes and do 22 months in prison.

Saying this from his seminar (which, I should ave clarified, was to myself and my school's accounting department primarily) he often said that crime and fudging the system is really engrained in Wall Street culture, and the trap was the illusion that everyone was doing it. He went in a normal guy, totally clean. He said that there was one case where a guy was doing insider trading and needed it in someone else's name and he'd let Belfort keep like 100k for himself. Belfort knew it was wrong but thought for that amount he'd be fine and neer do it again. A few months later, it happened again. Basically, he said that if you make that one moral compromise, you can rarely find people who turn back. Being arrested was the best thing for him, he never would have stopped while he was alive.

Actually, I did the interview before CNN approved it. I then sent it over and about a month later saw that they used it in their article. They use iReports as an archive for content they may or may not need to use, and they've used some of my stuff. My interview with Adam Kokesh was actually put on their homepage. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1075537

The reason they ultimately used my video was actually to focus on the man himself, not his value as an entertainment character. He was a really big deal, Stratton stole over a billion in total, 200 million personally by Belfort.

Fun fact by the way to those who saw the film: At the end when DiCaprio is about to start his speech with "Sell me this pen" he is introduced by a sound bridge of a guy introducing him which is shown over a shot of the prison and then cuts to him on stage introducing him. The guy introducing him is Jordan Belfort himself. This will only make sense to people watching the movie, but it's a cool cameo.