Court-appointed bankruptcy trustee Herbert Stettin is seeking to compel the U.S. Marshals Service to deliver convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein “at a secure location chosen by the USMS” for a deposition.
A hedge fund that invested $200 million in Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme is fighting several settlements reached by Herbert Stettin, the bankruptcy trustee for Rothstein’s defunct law firm.
Bankruptcy attorneys for the Scott Rothstein estate have filed suit against the Republican Party of Florida, seeking the repayment of $237,000 in campaign contributions from the jailed former attorney. In a suit filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fort Lauderdale, Berger Singerman, the law firm for trustee Herbert Stettin, alleges that the Florida GOP has refused to return more than 10 different donations made by Rothstein over a four-year period.
At a hearing Thursday, federal prosecutors battled attorneys for bankruptcy trustee Herbert Stettin over which side would be better suited to dole out funds to victims of attorney Scott Rothstein’s massive Ponzi scheme. Florida federal Judge James Cohn had tough questions for both Assistant U.S
Scott Rothstein’s former law firm general counsel cried Thursday as he recalled how he discovered his boss had committed a fraud of epic proportions. David Boden, who worked for Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler for 18 months before it imploded last November, testified in a deposition about discovering the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.