Before $1.2B Ponzi collapse, Rothstein emails to associate brag about fraud’s huge success

Before his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme collapsed, Scott Rothstein crowed repeatedly to an alleged wealthy accomplice about the fraud’s huge success, calling himself “banker and pimp” and bragging that he operated the “International Bank of WOW!,” according to a new lawsuit that sheds fresh light on the scam’s inner workings. “Have I told you how much I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this business … and how much I love the color green,” Rothstein said in one of many emails to the alleged accomplice, auto magnate Edward J. “Ted” Morse Jr. Read Washington Post report here.