The True Story Behind Rogue Informant
Every plot beat in the film is anchored in the public record. Here is the source material in chronological order.
Rogue Informant is a dramatization, but its spine is documented: federal docket entries, declassified FBI 302 memoranda, SEC filings, Bahamian Supreme Court orders, FINRA BrokerCheck, and contemporaneous reporting by Bloomberg, Law360, Reuters, and the New York Post.
Public-record chronology
- 1997First trading desk
Guy Gentile, age 19, joins a New Jersey electronic-trading desk. Begins building what becomes DAS Trader's direct-access platform.
- 2002SpeedTrader launches
U.S.-registered broker-dealer for active retail day-traders.
- 2008Crisis & rule changes
Post-crisis U.S. PDT and leverage rules push high-frequency retail customers offshore.
- 2011SureTrader opens
MintBroker International Ltd. licensed by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas.
- 2012First FBI cooperation
Gentile records a pitched pump-and-dump scheme and walks into the FBI.
- 2012–2016Undercover wire work
Four years of active cooperation against organized penny-stock manipulators.
- Mar 23, 2016Federal indictment
A federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey returns an indictment relating to alleged securities-fraud conduct that had ended in 2008.
- Jan 30, 2017Criminal indictment dismissed
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey dismisses the indictment on statute-of-limitations grounds. This was a dismissal, not a jury acquittal.
- 2019SureTrader winds up
MintBroker International voluntarily wound up under Bahamian Supreme Court supervision.
- Mar 22, 2021Separate SEC civil action
The SEC files a civil action in the Southern District of Florida concerning SureTrader's broker-dealer registration.
- Jul 2, 2024Miami civil liability verdict
After a ten-day civil trial, a Miami jury finds Gentile liable as a control person of SureTrader and for inducing its broker-dealer registration violations.
- Oct 17, 2025Final judgment
Final judgment is entered in the Miami civil case; the judgment is on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit.
- 2026Film in development
Rogue Informant enters active development.
Where to verify everything
- ·Official Dossier (2026 PDF) — consolidated legal & biographical record
- ·Full public timeline on guygentile.com
- ·Statement: DOJ 2016 indictment dismissed (2017)
- ·Statement: FBI informant memo
- ·Statement: SureTrader Bahamas wind-up
- ·Statement: SEC 2024 civil verdict (on appeal)
- ·Federal cooperation history