This has been on a lot lately so I've been noticing little things. Gekko calls Bud from the beach and says he is sending him money and wants him to play with it and get info from wherever he can. So Bud invests in the office cleaning company and gets into the offices. Is it from the Gekko money or the earnings he made in commissions?
shareno i think by that point in the movie Bud had made enough of his own money piggybacking on deals with Gekko to make an "investment" in the cleaning company with his own money. he probably invested like $25,000 or so which was chump change for Bud by that point in the movie. i don't think he'd be withdrawing funds from a customer's account (even Gekko's) and using them for anything other than stock purchases - it wouldn't be appropriate or legal and the optics would be bad.
shareBud invests in the office cleaning company
The uniform would not have been enough. He would have needed access to the offices he was entering and that would have required being part of the company.
shareInvesting in the cleaning company wouldn't have automatically given him access to customers' facilities. Bud was obviously breaking rules (and laws).
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Fowler's knots? Did you say ... fowler's knots?
Investing in the cleaning company wouldn't have automatically given him access to customers' facilities. Bud was obviously breaking rules (and laws).
Bud probably used his own money but since he was stealing info for both him and gekko to use it didn't matter. He didn't need to invest more than 50 or 60k , which was peanuts to pay for the info he could get to. Bud made 800k in Hong Kong gold so he was clearly a millionare by that point
shareThe way I interpreted it, Bud said he was going to help the cleaning company. I believed he mentioned buying assets and vans and I'm sure he used Gekkos money due to the very recent conversation where Gekko said he can do whatever he wants with his new money from a gold sale iirc
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