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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.

Timeline

Public-record chronology

  1. 1997
    First trading desk

    Guy Gentile, age 19, joins a New Jersey electronic-trading desk. Begins building what becomes DAS Trader's direct-access platform.

  2. 2002
    SpeedTrader launches

    U.S.-registered broker-dealer for active retail day-traders.

  3. 2008
    Crisis & rule changes

    Post-crisis U.S. PDT and leverage rules push high-frequency retail customers offshore.

  4. 2011
    SureTrader opens

    MintBroker International Ltd. licensed by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas.

  5. 2012
    First FBI cooperation

    Gentile records a pitched pump-and-dump scheme and walks into the FBI.

  6. 2012–2016
    Undercover wire work

    Four years of active cooperation against organized penny-stock manipulators.

  7. Mar 2016
    DOJ indictment

    U.S. v. Gentile filed in the District of New Jersey on pre-2008 conduct.

  8. Jan 2017
    Indictment dismissed

    U.S. District Judge dismisses the indictment for pre-indictment delay. Covered by Bloomberg, Reuters, Law360.

  9. 2019
    SureTrader winds up

    MintBroker International voluntarily wound up under Bahamian Supreme Court supervision.

  10. 2024
    Civil registration verdict

    A narrow civil registration verdict is entered; Gentile appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

  11. 2026
    Film in development

    Rogue Informant enters active development.

Primary Sources

Where to verify everything