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Florida Ponzi lawyer: partners involved in scam

The former Florida lawyer convicted of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme claims both his partners at a now-defunct Fort Lauderdale law firm knew about and profited from the illegal activity, according to transcripts of testimony released Wednesday.
The disbarred attorney, Scott Rothstein, said in a sworn deposition that ex-partners Russell Adler and Stuart Rosenfeldt knew about and benefited financially from the Ponzi scam that collapsed in fall 2009. The scam involved investments in fake legal settlements.
Read Washington Post article here.

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