Rothstein pleads guilty, seeks shorter jail term 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 28, 2010
Tags: ponzi scheme, professional responsibility
Scott Rothstein, the disbarred Florida lawyer and newly convicted Ponzi schemer who faces up to 100 years in prison, will strive to help authorities make cases against others who profited from his massive investment scam — in hopes of shaving time off his sentence. Rothstein will be sentenced on May 6 following his guilty plea Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale federal court to five counts of racketeering, fraud and money laundering.
Fla. lawyer set to plead guilty in Ponzi scheme
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 6, 2010
Tags: ponzi scheme, professional responsibility
Disbarred South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein is negotiating a guilty plea with federal prosecutors on charges of orchestrating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme using faked legal settlements, his attorney said Tuesday.
Feds seize assets of Fla. lawyer in Ponzi probe
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: ponzi scheme, professional responsibility
Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday.
Madoff trustee tells judge of $1.08B found for victims
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 10, 2009
Tags: ponzi scheme
The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s defunct investment-advisory business told a bankruptcy judge he has made “significant headway” in recovering assets, including $1.08 billion found as of June 30. Click here for the full article from Bloomberg News.
Source: 10 others to be charged in Madoff probe
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: Madoff, ponzi scheme
Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned. Click here for the full article.
Guilty Madoff settles civil fraud charges with SEC
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 17, 2009
Tags: ponzi scheme
Bernard Madoff, who ran the biggest investment fraud in history, was allowed to settle civil fraud charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without having to admit any wrongdoing.
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