Brokerage-firm CEO Tommy Belesis, getting smacked with a slew of employee defections, is giving up his posh Wall Street headquarters, The Post has learned.
John Thomas Financial, which also has been buffeted by regulatory probes, occupies the entire 23rd floor of 14 Wall St. — a space that is being marketed for “immediate possession,” sources said.
The 38,705-square-foot space has been on the market for two weeks through real estate brokerage CBRE, according to real estate listing service CoStar Group.
CBRE brokers for the building, located right across from the New York Stock Exchange, didn’t return a request for comment about why the space came back to the landlord.
A lawyer for JTF also declined to comment.
The loss of Belesis’ polished headquarters, which he outfitted with attendants in the bathrooms and security cameras over every desk, is just the latest blow to the Merrick, NY, native — once a regular on cable-television news outlets.
In February, The Post reported that Belesis’ firm was being probed by regulators — the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority — and the FBI.
A month later, the SEC charged Belesis and George Jarkesy, a Houston radio host, with deceiving investors in two hedge funds.
Both denied the charges.
Finra, the industry’s self-regulatory body, followed in April with a suit accusing Belesis — who acted in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” — of intimidating and harassing brokers.
JTF denied Finra’s charges and said it plans to “defend against them vigorously.”
Meanwhile, brokers and top executives have been fleeing JTF. Investment banking head Avi Mirman and head of research Wayne Kaufman recently left.
JTF is down to several dozen employees from a peak of a couple hundred, sources said.
Belesis, 38, opened JTF with a handful of staffers in 2007 and moved the firm to its current location amid a “major expansion” just two years later.
At its peak, JTF had 200 brokers who he would seek to inspire every morning with “Eye of the Tiger,” and other “Rocky” theme music blaring through the office’s sound system.
The 23rd floor of 14 Wall was also:
* the 1992 launching pad for hedge fund titan Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital.
* the offices for architects who hashed out the new 1 WTC and 7 WTC after 9/11.
* where Shia Labeouf prepped for his role in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”