9 Famous Companies That Viciously Manipulated Their Customers

PENNY STOCKS FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING

In 1994, the SEC started investigating the company’s trading practices. The company’s chairman and president, Jordan Belfort, was accused of ten counts of stocks fraud and money laundering and in 1999 he eventually pleaded guilty. Belfort received a four-year sentence in prison and a fine of $110.4 million but managed to reduce his sentence to less than two years.

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