Jeremy Stancroft

Jeremy Stancroft is the main antagonist of the 2013 Uwe Boll film Assault on Wall Street.

Personality
Jeremy Stancroft is a Wall Street portfolio manager who relentlessly defrauds clients to scam them out of their hard-earned money by selling them toxic assets. He ran a Ponzi scheme throughout the city of New York and covered that up by simply blaming failures of other businesses. He became a billionaire and into old age never saw any legal problems that could have otherwise resulted in him meeting any combination of the following sanctions of incarceration for committing one or more first-degree felonies related to grand theft and Ponzi schemes, house arrest, seizure of his assets or penalty fines.

As the movie takes place in 2008, this was during the beginning of the 2008 global financial crisis that triggered a large recession. Jeremy Stancroft played a key role in triggering the recession for his own gain, as he triggered the foreclosure of several big banks and properties in New York which kicked out many hard-working New Yorkers out on the streets and losing their jobs and life savings while he saw more money flow into his pockets.

Stancroft is very self-aware of how corrupt and immoral his actions are. He defends that capitalism is a surivival-of-the-fittest pyramid in itself and because the United States is a capitalist nation, it has always been about rich people cannibalizing off poor people rather than working hard and honestly.

Biography
Jim Baxford made him a target for homicide out of anger that the 2008 financial crisis caused by corrupt Wall Street bankers made him lose his job, his wife and his house.

Trivia

 * Stancroft was played by John Heard, who was made famous for playing the father of Kevin McAllister in the comedy film Home Alone.
 * Stancroft was inspired by Bernie Madoff.