A television producer reporting on the financial losses of people bilked by the “Wolf of Wall Street,” Jordan Belfort, failed to convince a judge to release a list of victims and the restitution amounts owed. “Protecting the victims’ privacy in this context presents a strong countervailing interest to the presumption of access to this document,” Eastern District Judge John Gleeson (See Profile) wrote in U.S. v. Belfort, 98-cr-0859.
Belfort pleaded guilty securities fraud and money laundering in 1999 and Gleeson sentenced him. Belfort’s exploits became the subject of an Oscar-nominated film in December.
