Leonardo DiCaprio tangled up in world’s biggest fraud which is suspected to have funded Wolf of Wall Street film

Source: www.thesun.co.uk --- Sunday, July 31, 2016
LEONARDO DiCaprio and Jonah Hill sat back in the opulent splendour of a private plane as another champagne cork popped. Having just celebrated the arrival of the New Year in Australia, they were being whisked “back in time” across the Pacific to celebrate midnight again in Las Vegas. Splash the cash … Production company behind Wolf of Wall Street were able to throw money at the film It could have been a lavish scene straight out of The Wolf of Wall Street, the story of a notorious 1990s stock market swindler that the two men had just finished filming. But this party was for real. Their film producer hosts aboard the jet had already earned a reputation for spending cash even before they seemingly came from nowhere to put up more than £65million to make Martin Scorsese’s film about corruption in the financial markets. Money seemed no object to the men behind Red Granite Pictures — and on December 31, 2012, the film backers were treating their Hollywood guests to the high life. Partners … Leo and director Martin Scorsese were searching for backers for years before being pointed towards Red Granite Now, three-and-a-half years later, DiCaprio and Scorsese find themselves unwittingly at the centre of the world’s biggest financial scandal amid allegations of fraud that dwarf the crimes of the real Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort. The US Justice Department has claimed that money to finance the movie came from £2.6BILLION, or possibly ...

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