SCOTT ROTHSTEIN -ALL DAY EVERY DAY

All the legal blogs are covering this story, so why not us?

Bob Norman and his Daily Pulp blog have had, and continue to have the lead in breaking this story.

Today's events:

1) A source is going on the record with Norman that Rothstein keep a female dancer (stripper) at the Ritz Carlton on Ft. Lauderdale beach.
What does this mean? Goodbye Mrs. Rothstein. Any pretense of being the loving devoted wife standing by her man just went out the door. You can click on the Daily Pulp link to see a picture of the very blonde, soon to be former Mrs. Rothstein cozying up to Dan Marino.

2) Rothstein's new book: "How to steal 57 Million from your client" goes on sale Saturday.

The Sun Sentinel has details of the fake orders Rothstein used to convince South Florida car dealer Ed Morse that his two million dollar contract dispute with an interior decorator had grown to a 20+ million dollar judgment. Just like any cheap Nigeran Internet Scam, Rothstein somehow convinced his client that he needed TO PAY MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.

From the Sun Sentinel:

The Sun Sentinel Wednesday obtained copies of the fake court orders Morse says he was given, allegedly by Rothstein. They bear the forged signatures of two federal judges, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra, and U.S. Appellate Court Judge Susan H. Black. One of the documents threatened Morse into silence with a "strict" confidentiality order, even as he grew increasingly suspicious.

The documents Rothstein gave Morse bear no case numbers, and are instead marked "Under Seal.''

The first, with a fake Marra signature, said the kitchen designer was liable to Morse for "punitive damages for fraud,'' and owed Morse $23 million. It said the designer had illegally moved millions to the Cayman Islands, but that Rothstein "has facilitated the contact between the relative governments,'' and that the money would be returned to the U.S.

The faked order demanded that Morse "deposit to their attorney's trust account the sum of $15 million no later than 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, the 20th day of March, 2009'' as a bond to secure the funds. "If such funds are not so posted,'' it went on, "this order shall be null and void. …''

At some point even a used car dealer is going to get suspicious. It's not like they haven't built their business on selling undercoating and extended warranties, right?

So when Morse got his dander up, Rothstein sat down at this computer and voila', came up with this order from the 11th Circuit: (From the Sun Sentinel)

When Morse got increasingly suspicious this summer, Rothstein claimed to have filed an action in the 11th U.S. District Court of Appeals, and told Morse he was victorious. He gave Morse an order with a faked signature from appellate court Judge Black. The Aug. 13 order reassured Morse that he had money coming to him, but emphasized the confidentiality of the case.

"We again strongly caution all counsel and mandate that they caution and counsel their respective clients that this matter is governed by a strict confidentiality order … which this court strongly cautions, contains severe penalties for any violation of same.''

Morse never saw another penny of his money, his lawyers said.

Here is the Sun Sentinel's link to the Fake Judge Mara Order in full. It's fun reading.

Memo to Scott: One thing we would have seen right away is that Judge Mara is smart enough not to end every sentence in his orders with a semicolon (;) . He knows when to use a period (.) . period.)

:)

But you gotta give the big fella credit: He not only just wrote his own order winning the case (when in real life he lost) but he held the opposing counsel in contempt for good measure. In for a penny, in for a pound, eh Scotty Boy?

From the order:

Paragraph 13 for those of you keeping score at home or work: "That counsel for JONES is hereby found to have acted in contumacious disregard for prior orders of this and other courts and thus is found to be in contempt thereof."

Contumacious- that should bring out the word of the day guys. Scott may not know how to litigate a case, but he knows how to use a thesaurus.

Here's the thing: we hate standing in line at the Justice Building. We can't stand listening to Judges tell us how when they were in private practice they had every case prepped for trial within sixty days. But despite these horrors we slug through our simple practice and go to sleep every night. It's bad enough having to beg for a 30 day extension from the 11th Circuit to file our brief....We can't even imagine sleeping at night knowing that we are forging orders from the 11th Circuit.

On the other hand....they never ever do what we ask them to do. And it's sort of like Captain Kirk rigging the Kobayashi Maru exercise at Star Fleet Academy. (You never knew we are a Trekie? )