William King; Running with the wolf of wall street to sleeping rough

IT WAS the 1980s, greed was good, and William “Preston” King was on top of the world.

The stockbroker, who was pals with[at]Wolf of Wall Street[at]Jordan Belfort, raked in the dough from plum jobs with Merrill Lynch and Oppenheimer & Co, living large in a New York City loft and driving around in a BMW.

But the tall, blue-eyed-and-blond regular at downtown dance clubs partied too hard, sucking down Rémy Martin and Cokes and snorting mountains of cocaine.

The good times turned into a downward spiral that lasted three decades, and led him to a life on the streets, sleeping on empty pizza boxes on a footpath, his family says.

“The kid had everything at his fingertips,” said King’s younger sister, Kristine, who learnt of his plight from a photo in[at]The New York Post. “Anything he wanted he could have.”

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growing up in belfast i'd come across down and out alcoholics mostly in the market square and folk would say
he used to be famous or he used to be one the best at whatever
but that is one big tumble.
a warning to others to watch out,that there can be a heavy price to pay.

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Originally Posted by billy the kid

growing up in belfast i'd come across down and out alcoholics mostly in the market square and folk would say
he used to be famous or he used to be one the best at whatever
but that is one big tumble.
a warning to others to watch out,that there can be a heavy price to pay.

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Be nice to people on the way up...cos it's an AWFULLY long way down.

The character on whom that movie is based is now gainfully employed as a Physician's Assistant on Long Island. He was incredibly adept at minimising his role in the fraud, (or the Feds were incredibly bad at prosecuting financial crime and explaining it to the jury). PA's are known as "pretend doctors". It's a two year course after which they get to wear a white coat and write prescriptions in a very limited capacity under strict supervision...for antibiotics and the like.

America is truly the land of re-invention.