Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Wall Street’s Biggest Hustler? Meet the Real Wolf
10 Mar 2025
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The silver Lamborghini flies around the corner. From that point on, I was hooked. He walked me around the office. He's like, hey, Zony, what'd you make this month? 150 grand. You know, hey, Jay, what'd you make last year? 3.4 million. These are guys in their 20s. This is really messed up how this whole thing went down. She comes by my office and she pitches me. Everything seems legit.
I start raising capital. Your guys are calling investors saying, hey, we got a new company. Here's what we need. Put in $100,000, $200,000. Something's definitely wrong.
I drive to the bank and she had spent $350,000 out of that $400,000. This is a criminal situation here. And our name's all over it. Royce started partying too much. He stopped coming in. Out of the first round, that $5 million we raised, Royce raised $12,500. At this point, I keep hearing it from more people that he's going to have me killed. So I'm driving over there.
I call him, meet me around the house, go in the back by the dock, he says. I start thinking to myself, like, that was odd. I call my girlfriend and I said, do you think that this guy would really kill me? Yeah, what are you, stupid? Turn around right now. I get a phone call. He says, whatever you do, don't come to the office. There's like 40 FBI agents here. So I booked a flight to Ecuador.
I remember when I was indicted, I thought, time for a trip.
We go to the airport and they close in on me. They say, excuse me, can I see your passport?
Hey, this is Matt Cox and I'm going to be doing an interview with Joseph Vitale. This is very possibly one of the best interviews and stories I've ever heard. You absolutely need to watch this video. It's got a bunch of double crosses, twists, turns, murders, several scams. It's genuinely going to be one of the better videos you will ever watch.
check it out i grew up on uh on long island okay and now uh yeah middle class family right and uh i ended up uh going to fau down here in florida right and made it through about a year and a half and i i one night i met a guy driving a lamborghini uh that's how i got into the whole stock thing right well you were date you were dating
This girl, Alicia. Yeah, you were dating?
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