Prominent Florida attorney arrested by federal authorities December 1 2009, accused of running a $1 billion investment fraud
Managing Shareholder of the Fort Lauderdale firm, Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, and Adler.Nova University Law Center, J.D., 1988, University of Florida, B.A., 1984. Born in the Bronx, New York, 1962. According to press reports, investors have accused Rothstein of promising them big returns on phony legal settlements he sold out of a side business at his Fort Lauderdale firm. Over the past seven years, he has had a meteoric rise through the South Florida business and political elite, doling out millions in campaign and philanthropic donations along the way.
