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The Rothstein Firm Manufactured Cases to Sell
A case was filed today in Florida State Court by Jeffrey Epstein, the Palm Beach
Billionaire accused of soliciting underage girls, against embattled ex-lawyer Scott
Rothstein and some of his former partners at Rothstein Rosenfeldt and Adler, P.A.
The case presents a rare window into the various machinations and abuse of the legal
system engaged in by the RRA firm., the complaint alleges that the firm misappropriated
funds from unsuspecting investors to fabricate from thin facts in what could be highly
emotionally charged cases that could be brought or threatened against wealthy defendants.
Rothstein and RRA could then use anonymous filings, protective orders, and un-checked
discovery tactics in those cases as an integral part of their scheme. They would entice
unsuspecting investors with the prospect lending against large settlements, which they
would claim were accomplished under the radar, as a married executive might not want
his wife to know about an office affair, or an invented contactor had been desperate to
protect itself from a potentially devastating whistleblower suit. Confidentiality
agreements, and other various fraudulent documents would then be used to further these
illicit goals.
The investor was told that Jeffrey Epstein got a sweetheart deal. Rothstein and RRA
would display a copy of Epstein's deal with the government, that RRA gone to court to
have unseald, to show investors that the" big fish", as the Epstein cases was described,
had already agreed to settle cases.However,they needed a plaintiff that could be readily
manipulated to create a case that would pass a frivolous suit attack.
The Epstein cases were perfect. In September 07, the government had required Epstein to
waive liability to a list of unnamed girls, girls whose names would not even be given to
Epstein until after he was incarcerated.. Rothstein and partners could use the fact that the
girls were unnamed and claim that they represented many of these unnamed girls. IN may
of 08 ,months after the deal was signed they found three girls, and they were able to have
at least one of the girls unilaterally added to the government's list.
Funded by "investors", Rothstein and partners found women that had been to Epstein's
house, "no matter what your history , claim that Epstein is responsible for all of your
troubles If the women were questioned under oath, they were counseled to hide behind the
right of clients not to be forced to divulge confidential (attorney/client privileged)
information, or as it happened, if the questions got too close to the truth, they were
instructed to claim their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination (this happened
over forty times at the deposition of the first of RRA's clients).
As Rothstein's fraud was unraveling, RRA sent a retired but disgraced police officer,
representing himself as law enforcement personnel, to interview a myriad of famous
people believed associated with Epstein. Brad Edwards filed a suit under the name of
Jane Doe, claiming that his now 22 year-old client needed anonymity, and sought and
obtained a no contact order from the judge, insulating the client from anyone that might
want to speak with her out of earshot of her attorney. All that was needed was to secure
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investors to fund investigators, experts, and travel expenses of the attorneys, in exchange
for the promise of large guaranteed returns.
However during deposition, the plaintiffs admitted that they had been call girls and
strippers since the age of 15. They had worked at various massage parlors, strip clubs,
and escort services and one admitted to keeping a record of the payment of her Johns'
fees in a lined book masquerading as a bible. This plaintiff changed her sworn testimony
given to the FBI before she bad met the RRA attorney Edwards , that Epstein was an
"awesome man" that never did anything improper to her , to "I was abused". She claimed
not to want money , only justice, though she did admit to having intercourse with many,
many men, but not even once with Epstein.
Protected from a defamation claim by the act of actually filing a lawsuit, protected from
investigation by the attorney/client privilege, and protected from stray questions of RBA's
clients by a no contact order from the court, RRA was free to call the press, in violation of
local ethics rules. RRA was free to get its clients on television, admittedly behind a screen
to protect the Jane Doe from unwanted scrutiny. It was free to subpoena friends and
employees of Epstein to depositions for hours on end.
The federal government is now trying to unravel Rothstein's looting of investors, maybe
even the trust accounts of the firm, and will need to determine who else was in on the
schemes. As with Madoffs case, it appears unlikely that this will be revealed to be the
work of only one man.
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