The China Hustle Movie Script

You have to tell people that you're already this big." You just had to make sure that you checked all the boxes in order to get it to be sold.

And don't worry, because if they even find out that we're lying, you won't go to jail.

- You're in China." - All you needed was the collusion of a couple players, and you could defraud anyone you wanted.

And if we're lucky enough to get the money and they find out you're lying, you get to keep the money.

So there's really no risk here.

I'll do all the work.

All you have to do is continue to tell the lie.

You know, if you're gonna be a CEO of a public company, you've got to be educated, gone to college, got an MBA.

These guys had zero of that.

Zero, a lot of these guys.

They came from second, third-tier cities in China.

They came from a different way of doing business... Like running their own candy store type of way doing business.

A Chinese chicken farmer does not wake up one day and understand how to defraud the U.S. capital markets.

From the creation of these little companies, it's all about stock market fraud.

Once Dan, Matt, and the other shorts figured out the basic characteristics of the China frauds, they started taking them out, one by one.

Puda Coal, the chairman, stole investors' shares.

SINO Clean Energy, super technology.

This company puts advertisements on buses.

They would crush coal, mix it with water, and that was energy... phenomenal.

They hired none other than Loeb & Loeb to sue us.

China Integrated Energy, for weeks and weeks and weeks, there was nothing happening at this company.

All of a sudden, things get turned on.

Lights start working.

The next day, Rodman & Renshaw shows up with a busload of investors.

Take a tour of the facility, get back on the bus, leave.