Sentences with phrase «boiler room of»

If you have been subject of an investigation or prosecution for alleged Boiler Room of or Securities Fraud, we can assist in defending you.

No longer does the fraudster need to rent the boiler room of a City office, they will simply use a name that is similar to that of a recognised and trusted authorised firm.

Historically, to create a veneer of respectability, US fraudsters would rent the boiler room of a Wall Street office block.

The breeze provided by the slipstream of our open windows felt like we were downwind of a fan in the boiler room of a frigate.

In 2012, married owners Ciaran and Lacey Doherty transformed the basement boiler room of their upscale dessert bar, the Middle Spoon, into a stylish space for their award - winning mixologist Jenner Cormier to serve craft cocktails.

The imagery of the journey is dotted by markers of industry, refracted light, ships as shadows in the distance, and boiler rooms of infinite gauges; with Morse code and jamming radio signals providing a continuous backing track.

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And most recently, The Wolf of Wall Street, where the protagonist runs a classic boiler - room sales floor occupied with phone salespeople marketing penny stocks.

One of my favorite scenes in the 2000 cult classic Boiler Room is when the Ben Affleck character informs a room full of brokerage firm trainees how to behRoom is when the Ben Affleck character informs a room full of brokerage firm trainees how to behroom full of brokerage firm trainees how to behave.

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

There's a moment near the beginning of The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese's three - hour based - on - a-true-story romp through the excesses of a shady penny - stock boiler room in the»90s — when the swirling cameras and testosterone - fuelled hijinks pause for a split second and the grotesquery suddenly comes into focus.

Boiler Room, also loosely based on Belfort's exploits, follows a kid from Queens who decides to follow the «white - boy way of slinging crack - rock» and become a stockbroker.

While the major stock exchanges, securities regulators and police have made significant progress in the past dozen years purging the old - style boiler rooms and pump - and - dump schemes from the public markets, the marketing of suspect securities continues to thrive in the private domain.

These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed) population of old, rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest in talking to them.

The discrepancy is to some degree attributable to a custom dating back to the boiler - room days of the early 1980s, when financial commentators felt obliged to ignore offerings deemed unsuitable for laypeople's attention (with good reason, considering that some underwriters actually served time).

«Historically, they were the domain of «boiler room» frauds that aggressively peddled penny stocks by falsely promising the companies were on the verge of major breakthroughs, releasing groundbreaking products, or merging with blue chip competitors.»

Brown unmasks the financial industry for all to see, revealing the less - than - honest sales tactics of boiler - room brokers and dressing down investment banks for running away with fees and riches while Mom and Pop retail investors are left holding the bag.

If you knew how many of the «debaters» in this forum were paid shills sitting in boiler room type operations all day basically getting into character and arguing the agenda their boss gave them you would spend less time debating them and more time talking about their little known but thriving industry.

Out of that memory, the Boiler Room was born.

Saint Arnold Boiler Room Berliner Weisse is the first new beer in the brewery's year - round lineup since the introduction of Saint Arnold Endeavour in February 2012.

He put the 10 gallons into a carboy, topped it off with a bottle of funky Belgian beer known to have lots of bacteria in it, and stuck it in the boiler room to sour for a couple of days.

Celebrity chefs slated to headline events throughout the week: Rick Moonen of rm Seafood and Rx Boiler Room; Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill; Michelle Bernstein of Cena by Michy; Marcus Samuelsson of Red Rooster Harlem, Ginny's Supper Club, and Streetbird Rotisserie; Cosmo Goss of The Publican Restaurant; Erling Wu - Bower of Nico Osteria; Suzette Gresham of Acquerello; Gale Gand, acclaimed pastry chef; television personalities, Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh, the Hearty Boys; Stephanie Prida of Manresa; Renee Erickson of The Whale Wins, Boat Street Café, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle; Steve Santana of Taquiza; Justin Woodward of Castagna; Dean James Max of DJM Restaurants, and Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd.

Xhaka is a player that can dominate not only the physical side of the boiler room action, but someone with the leadership qualities to inspire others and demoralise the opposition.

Hegarty Elementary had 8 feet of water in the boiler room and more than 3 feet in the cafeteria.

For months at a time, 88 men rubbed shoulders in a 317 - foot - long space that looks for all the world like a boiler room, their only glimpse of the outside world through a periscope.

Remove the top of the double boiler and set aside until tepid or room temperature.

The film reminded me of films like The Prime Gig, Boiler Room, Less Than Zero, Nothing in Common, Up in the Air, American Psycho, and Glen Gary Glen Ross.

Once they find the wretched cologne, they spray a trail of scent - all the way to Earls boiler room!

Only when he's urged to speak up does Marcus voice his plan to freeze the school and send the dinosaurs to the only local source of heat - Earl's boiler room!

Earl gets his first bad grade ever, he withdraws from family, friends and classroom to his secret hideaway in the school boiler room, taking on the persona for the «Phantom of the Auditorium.»

So, even though it's kind of fun watching DiCaprio go kablooey, shimmying around in his $ 2,000 suits and bellowing boiler - room battle cries (and that knee - walking exit from the country club, a surreal DUI episode - amazing!)

With the exception of the internet tie - in, this is a storyline that feels like it would have been right at home in the theaters decades ago, with its plotline some might think similar to such fare as Wall Street, The Devil's Advocate, or Affleck's Boiler Room.

The gathering was in honor of the Boiler Room Girls, a half - dozen women who had worked on his late brother Bobby's aborted presidential campaign the previous year.

It helps that Boiler Room director Younger, making his first movie for 12 years, has the advantage of being based on a less well - known true life story (at least to those not versed in boxing lore), its dramatic twists subsequently packing a bit more surprise and punch.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

With its terrific showcase of unheard of talent and unique ideas on the state of business and corruption, Boiler Room is one of the better films of 2000.

In addition to Younger's skills, Boiler Room sports a good set of young actors, especially Ribisi in the starring role of Seth.

Kate Mara plays Kopechne, depicted as an earnest young woman a member of the «Boiler Room Girls,» a group of secretaries and strategists who gave their souls to Bobby's presidential campaign, and were being urged to sign on for another one.

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During a celebration for a group of women known as the Boiler Room Girls (who worked on his brother Bobby's ill - fated presidential campaign the year before), he went off for a night drive with one of the female campaign workers, 28 - year - old Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

July 18 - 20, 1969, the weekend of the moon landing, was the Kennedy family's House Of Medici moment: its public values embodied by the televised journey of the Apollo spacecraft; its ambitions by a simultaneous backroom scramble to stage - manage the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a partof the moon landing, was the Kennedy family's House Of Medici moment: its public values embodied by the televised journey of the Apollo spacecraft; its ambitions by a simultaneous backroom scramble to stage - manage the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a partOf Medici moment: its public values embodied by the televised journey of the Apollo spacecraft; its ambitions by a simultaneous backroom scramble to stage - manage the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a partof the Apollo spacecraft; its ambitions by a simultaneous backroom scramble to stage - manage the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a partof Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a partof the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a party.

Superficially there are lots of shades of Glengarry Glen Ross and Boiler Room, but that's no bad thing at all.

The pair are attached to star in Bleed for This, a biopic of boxer Vinny Pazienza being written and directed by Ben Younger (Boiler Room, Prime).

Bruce Dern («The Hateful Eight») plays the Kennedy patriarch Joseph, with Ed Helms («The Office») as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan («It's Kind of a Funny Story») as DA Paul Markham and Olivia Thirlby («Dredd») playing a previous «boiler room girl» for Bobby Kennedy «s presidential campaign.

Dujardin is in talks to take the role of Jean - Jacques Handali, a Swiss banker who assisted Belfort with his boiler room - like firm.

Vin Diesel (Pitch Black, Boiler Room) plays Dominic Toretto, the leader of a gang of street racers who also have an undercover armed robbery operation in their spare time.

Newly 40, Joe juggles long hours working in a boiler room, an ongoing custody battle, his wife's chronic illness, and the demands of raising four girls.

Starring Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht (oh, and Laura Ramsey), it's one of these «I'm - comin» - up,» fratty - bratty business guy tales, like a boozy cross between The Social Network and The Boiler Room.

For his first film in more than ten years, writer / director Ben Younger («Prime,» «Boiler Room») tells the true story of one of the greatest comebacks of all time.

«Bleed for This,» directed with a fighter's spirit and a keen eye for detail by Ben Younger («Boiler Room»), deals in frank terms with the helplessness and loneliness of recovery and the blows it delivers to one's pride.

Under the weight of expectation from his father to return the family to the White House, the success of his deceased brothers and a lot of alcohol, Edward goes for a spin with «Boiler Room Girl» Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), drives the car off a bridge into a tidal channel, and leaves the accident scene with his passenger still trapped inside the vehicle.