Principal Characters

• GUY GENTILE
  Protagonist · Trader, broker-dealer founder, cooperator

  Late 30s, restless intelligence, ferocious work ethic. Built himself from a Jersey trading desk into the founder of a Wall Street brokerage and an offshore one. Refuses to be reduced to a single label — builder, fighter, father, cooperator, defendant. Real person, alive, on the record.

• THE AGENT
  FBI special agent · primary handler

  Career white-collar agent who recruits Guy after the first walk-in, runs four years of recordings, and — when leadership changes hands — watches the case turn on the asset who built it. Composite of multiple agents named in the unsealed record.

• THE PROSECUTOR
  Assistant U.S. Attorney · District of New Jersey

  Career line prosecutor who inherits a stale file and pushes the 2016 indictment past the statute-of-limitations cliff. The dismissal opinion is in the public record.

• THE JUDGE
  U.S. District Judge · D.N.J.

  Issues the January 2017 dismissal for pre-indictment delay — the legal pivot of the film's third act.

• THE PROMOTERS
  Targets of the undercover work

  The penny-stock promoters who approach Guy with the scheme that launches his cooperation. Several pleaded guilty; their names are in the public record.

• THE OFFSHORE LAWYER
  Nassau counsel

  Bahamian securities counsel who walks Guy through licensure, then through the 2019 voluntary wind-up of MintBroker International under Bahamian Supreme Court supervision.

• THE DAUGHTER
  Family

  Guy's daughter — the throughline of the personal story. Off-screen presence throughout the indictment years; on-screen in the present-day frame.

Names other than Guy Gentile are characterizations and composites except where the public record identifies an individual. See the true story page for citations.