2012 is shaping up to be the year of criminal prosecutions of Ponzi schemers from the go-go years: at least the ones who strayed across the grayish line. Alan Mendelhsohn, Scott Rothstein, and on the main stage: R. Allen Stanford. The deposition of Rothstein had an interesting wrinkle: that federal prosecutors are disallowing questions of Florida politicians. Why? This information is critical to the public interest. Maybe one of the lawyers reading our blog can explain.
"Barzee Flores also pressed Rothstein about that politicians he had convinced he was a legitimate businessman. A federal prosecutor allowed Rothstein to admit he fooled some national figures, such as former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona, but halted him from answering questions about politicians from Florida."
5 comments:
Most likely the feds are running public corruption investigations based on Rothstein's testimony and if he talks about it in open court it will tip off the scumbags they are investigating.
True as that may be, we've seen law enforcement let the local crooks off the hook so many times and over such a long period of time ...
Think, James Burke.
Dorin Rolle?
Having someone like Rothstein up there giving depositions gives the political end of the law enforcement establishment a way to leverage into the political end of the political establishment. They hold back, for reasons that are abundantly clear. They say, oh we need more time to make a case, but what they really want to do is just rattle the cage hard enough to earn the chits they need to stay in power.
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