June 19, 2017
A Florida federal judge on Monday denied a motion to reduce the five-year sentence of a jailed former associate at Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's now-defunct law firm for her role in the $1.2 billion scheme.
September 13, 2016
A jailed former associate at Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's law firm asked a Florida federal judge Monday to reduce her 60-month sentence, saying the size of her role in the $1.2 billion scheme did not equal the punishment received.
January 20, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal filed by a jailed former associate of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's law firm, who had complained that trial testimony tainted her case and led to an overly harsh sentence considering her lack of knowledge of the $1.2 billion scheme.
July 01, 2015
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday denied a bid by a former associate at jailed Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's law firm to overturn her conviction, ruling that evidence presented during the trial was sufficient to warrant a five-year prison sentence for her part in the $1.2 billion fraud.
May 30, 2014
A former Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA name partner pled not guilty Friday to charges of working with the firm, whose dissolution suit exposed a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, to illegally grow its political influence and bribing law enforcement officers to threaten an escort with whom he was involved.
May 20, 2014
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former associate at jailed Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's law firm to five years in prison after a jury found her guilty on three wire fraud counts for helping Rothstein in his $1.2 billion scheme.
February 11, 2014
A Florida federal jury on Tuesday found a lawyer charged in connection with jailed former attorney Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme guilty on all three wire fraud counts that she faced, following a week-long trial.
February 05, 2014
Jailed Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein took the stand Wednesday and told a Florida jury that his associate, one of the lawyers charged in connection with his $1.2 billion scheme, knew he was involved in improper activities but did not know about the Ponzi scheme.
November 25, 2013
A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered jailed Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein to appear at the criminal trial of one of the lawyers charged in connection with Rothstein's $1.2 billion scheme to sell shares in sham legal settlements.