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Rothstein said that, in hopes of a reduced sentence, he was telling prosecutors about everyone involved in his scheme and about police officers and others whom he bribed with cash or encounters with prostitutes.
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A recommendation from Centurion, Platinum and Level 3 would have been a lie because he had stopped paying them, Rothstein said. He said Meir Nordlicht, Platinum’s chief investment officer, and Jack Simony, a portfolio manager, agreed to help.
“My only concern was that, at the end of the day, they would lie for us,” Rothstein said. “That was my concern. They didn’t want this to blow. I didn’t want it to blow up. I had been assured by Mr. Simony and Mr. Nordlicht that they would not let it blow up.” Ray Casas, a spokesman for the funds, said Rothstein gave inconsistent accounts and the executives didn’t lie about the fraud.
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Rothstein said he worried the drug dealing might get someone’s attention. He didn’t worry about the prostitutes in the office.

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Boynton Beach Police Dept.
Police shut down the adult entertainment club Platinum Showgirls following a four-month undercover investigation that led to charges of drug trafficking, underage drinking and prostitution.

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Rothstein said that, in hopes of a reduced sentence, he was telling prosecutors about everyone involved in his scheme and about police officers and others whom he bribed with cash or encounters with prostitutes.
Recommendation’s Message
A recommendation from Centurion, Platinum and Level 3 would have been a lie because he had stopped paying them, Rothstein said. He said Meir Nordlicht, Platinum’s chief investment officer, and Jack Simony, a portfolio manager, agreed to help.
“My only concern was that, at the end of the day, they would lie for us,” Rothstein said. “That was my concern. They didn’t want this to blow. I didn’t want it to blow up. I had been assured by Mr. Simony and Mr. Nordlicht that they would not let it blow up.” Ray Casas, a spokesman for the funds, said Rothstein gave inconsistent accounts and the executives didn’t lie about the fraud.
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Rothstein said he worried the drug dealing might get someone’s attention. He didn’t worry about the prostitutes in the office.

See the full article from “BusinessWeek”

Rothstein said that, in hopes of a reduced sentence, he was telling prosecutors about everyone involved in his scheme and about police officers and others whom he bribed with cash or encounters with prostitutes.
Recommendation’s Message
A recommendation from Centurion, Platinum and Level 3 would have been a lie because he had stopped paying them, Rothstein said. He said Meir Nordlicht, Platinum’s chief investment officer, and Jack Simony, a portfolio manager, agreed to help.
“My only concern was that, at the end of the day, they would lie for us,” Rothstein said. “That was my concern. They didn’t want this to blow. I didn’t want it to blow up. I had been assured by Mr. Simony and Mr. Nordlicht that they would not let it blow up.” Ray Casas, a spokesman for the funds, said Rothstein gave inconsistent accounts and the executives didn’t lie about the fraud.
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Rothstein said he worried the drug dealing might get someone’s attention. He didn’t worry about the prostitutes in the office.

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Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Art Johnson resigns. Former NFL player Dave Duerson, 50, commits suicide inside his Sunny Isles Beach apartment. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office detention deputies Derrick Daniels and Vantavia Jackson are charged with facilitating a fight between inmates. A statewide grand jury finds rampant incompetence and corruption within the Broward School district.
MARCH
Former Pompano Beach advisory board member Vicente Thrower is arrested for soliciting a prostitute, just two months after being charged with accepting bribes. Once South Floridas largest law firm, Yoss LLP, which had been known as Adorno and Yoss, closes its doors. Luxury furniture retailer Robb & Stuckys goes out of business. Luther Hardin, 58, abruptly resigned as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University amid an embezzlement investigation at his former employer, the University of Central Arkansas. State Rep. Perry E. Thurston Jr. of Plantation is elected Democratic leader in the Florida House of Representatives.

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Rothstein makes allegations about cops, prostitutes
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) — A convicted South Florida Ponzi schemer has issued some shocking allegations.
On Tuesday, the Sun-Sentinel made public 950 pages of transcripts taken from Scott Rothstein’s 10-day testimony to lawyers investigating his Ponzi scheme.
Attorneys are attempting to recover money for victims of Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, for which he was busted in December of 2009. William Schere represents some of the victims. Earlier this month, he said, “As he said, very convincingly, ‘I don’t want to die in prison, and the only way I can’t not die in prison is by telling the truth.’”
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Rothstein also talked about how he frowned upon drug use but had no issues with prostitutes hanging around his office since he felt protected on that front. According to the billion-dollar convicted Ponzi schemer, officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were having sexual relations with high-priced escorts that he hired.

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The depositions wrapped up on Friday, and more transcripts are expected to be released Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
At least 30 lawyers involved in civil lawsuits related to Rothstein’s $1.2 billion scheme grilled Rothstein, who has been serving a 50-year prison sentence at an undisclosed location as part of the federal prisons’ witness protection program.
Rothstein was placed in witness protection after he worked an an informant against an alleged Sicilian mobster. He testified he “got a lot of money from organized crime” and claimed the stack of hundred dollar bills he kept at his desk was from “banks, organized crime, clients, law enforcement.”
He claimed he spent tens of thousands of money on escorts and women from strip clubs, and said law partners, investors and business associates had no problem indulging in the sexual favors he provided.

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So far, transcripts of the first six days of Rothstein’s 10 days of testimony have been released, with the disbarred attorney giving his version under oath of how he constructed his empire of lies and sought to maintain it with bribes, threats and lavish gifts before its collapse in October 2009.
Rothstein, 49, was sentenced last year to 50 years in prison for his $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest fraud in South Florida history. From the transcripts, Rothstein appears to be relishing his chance to tell all – including which of his law partners, business associates and investors allegedly took advantage of the sexual favors he paid richly to procure.
He told the lawyers interrogating him that he spent tens of thousands of dollars a month on women from strip clubs and escort services, and had girls on call in hotels and apartments.

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At trial, seven different victims, many them runaways at the time they met Mozie, testified that they worked or were recruited to work as prostitutes at Mozie’s residence, which he advertised as “The Boom Boom Room.” According to the trial evidence, The Boom Boom Room, also known as Lot 29, operated for more than a year as a house of prostitution.
Mozie advertised the business through the use of mass text messages to his contacts letting people know about the activities at the house each night. When customers arrived, they paid a cover charge to the security guard working the front door. The victims, many of them minors, worked in the house dancing for tips and engaging in sexual activity with male customers for money.
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Several of the minor victims testified that before working as a prostitute for Mozie, he required them to have sex with him as part of their “orientation,” which he explained was his way of “testing the merchandise.” They also testified that Mozie would take sexually explicit images of them, which he attached to the text messages advertising the brothel.

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Fla. man guilty of teen sex trafficking
Published: Dec. 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM
OAKLAND PARK, Fla., Dec. 21 (UPI) — A 34-year-old South Florida man has been convicted of recruiting underage girls to provide lap dances and have sex with customers at a brothel.
A jury found James Mozie guilty Tuesday of eight counts of child sex trafficking, one count of conspiring to commit child sex trafficking and one count of producing child pornography by taking cellphone photographs of an underage girl, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Mozie, who ran the Oakland Park brothel named the Boom Boom Room in a house in an industrial area, was convicted of all 10 federal charges against him and faces a possible sentence of life in prison on each when he is sentenced Feb. 28.

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