Whatever happened to the real Gordon Gekkos?

Whatever happened to the real Gordon Gekkos?
“I’m small-time compared to these crooks,” Gordon Gekko says in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Oliver Stone’s serpentine anti-hero is out of prison and out of the big league, surveying a poison landscape dominated by a vastly richer breed of megabank bosses and hedge fund billionaires, feasting off a nation unhinged by debt. Sometimes, Gekko says, prison is the only place to stay sane.
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