If today F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway had their famous exchange about the rich, it probably would go like this: Fitzgerald: The rich are different. Hemingway: Yes. They get better swag. Two rarely linked sources, the Hollywood Reporter and ArtNews, tapped into this modern phenomenon with recent stories about the 2013 Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, its star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and the film's mega-rich financial backers from, of all places, Malaysia. Here's how it went down. The Department of Justice believes somebody siphoned more than $3.5 billion million from Malaysia's state fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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