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Thomas Belesis was the founder and CEO of John Thomas Financial, a banking services firm headquartered in New York City that was shut down after financial authorities accused him of fraud and the company of operating as a boiler room, according to court documents. His experience in brokerage and investment banking on Wall Street culminated in the founding of the business in 2007. Founded in 1993, it expanded from a three-person brokerage to a 300-person company that claimed to offer a comprehensive range of retail brokerage, investment banking, corporate consulting, and private wealth management services. 

Belesis was often asked to speak on macroeconomic trends and economic policy by the nation’s major news organisations. He appears on a regular basis on television news programmes such as Fox Business News and CNBC. He is also involved in politics in both New York State and the United States. In the spring of 2011, he was selected to the position of Co-Chairman of the Republican Party’s New York State Finance Committee. As a trader in the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Belesis worked with actor Shia LaBeouf and served as an adviser to filmmaker Oliver Stone, assisting the director in capturing a more realistic portrayal of Wall Street. 

The Bronx Republican Party’s “Man of the Year” award was given to him by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 2009, who praised his ascent “from modest beginnings to become a tremendous success on Wall Street” and his involvement in giving employment to young people on Wall Street. Belesis was voted one of the 25 Most Intriguing People in the world by Greek America Magazine in 2010. An investigation into Belesis’s “shady” background was undertaken by the New York Post in a series of stories starting in 2012. When the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) began investigating the activities of John Thomas Financial in early 2013, a series of New York Post stories reported on the investigation and the findings.

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