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Ponzi Schemer: 'I Feel Like I Just Took Six Viagra' (Claims Major Car Dealer Part of Scheme)
ABC News ^ | December 14, 2011 | Randy Kreider

Posted on 12/16/2011 6:14:08 AM PST by PJ-Comix

In a series of cocky, sometimes profane emails to an alleged accomplice, convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein bragged about his financial prowess, calling himself a "pimp" and a "punk" who loved making money so much "I feel like I just took six Viagra."

The emails surfaced as part of a lawsuit against car dealership heir Ted Morse, who is being sued by more than two dozen Rothstein investors who claim he was a willing participant in Rothstein's $1.2 billion fraud, the largest in South Florida history. The scheme collapsed in 2009 and Rothstein, 49, is now serving a 50-year federal sentence.

In the emails, sent between 2006 and 2008, Rothstein mixes slang, braggadocio and emoticons as he asks Morse to front him hundreds of thousands of dollars with a promise of a quick profit from his "International Bank of Wow."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: scottrothstein
The Ed Morse auto dealerships are all over South Florida. If slimeball Scott Rothstein thinks ratting out all his associates is really going to help him out, I think he is sadly mistaken. He is already a dead man walking for ratting on a major crime figure in Italy. I doubt he will last very much longer in prison. However, his fate couldn't happen to a more deserving dirtbag.
1 posted on 12/16/2011 6:14:19 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

BTW, Rothstein was the biggest contributor to Charlie Crist. In fact, it was Rothstein himself who spread the untrue rumor that Crist was caught smooching a woman on an elevator. His nickname for Crist was “Governorness.”


2 posted on 12/16/2011 6:16:29 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: dennisw; Clemenza

South Florida FYI


3 posted on 12/16/2011 6:17:25 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Cocky”? Heh.

If your numbers stay up for longer than four hours, see your doctor.


4 posted on 12/16/2011 6:22:47 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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“I feel like I just took six Viagra.”

The only problem is that he was the one who ended up getting f ‘ d.

Love a story with a good ending.


5 posted on 12/16/2011 6:29:01 AM PST by chiefqc
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“I feel like I just took six Viagra.”

The only problem is that he was the one who ended up getting f ‘ d.

Love a story with a good ending.


6 posted on 12/16/2011 6:29:36 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: chiefqc

The authorities promised Rothstein that if he rats out his friends, he will get his prison sentence of 50 years reduced down to 49 years. BTW, if the allegations about Morse are true, then he should be imprisoned for terminal stupidity. Let’s see. You run a huge successful car dealership in South Florida and you get involved with someone who walks around smoking cigars and wearing wannabbee phoney gangster outfits? How DUmb is that?


7 posted on 12/16/2011 6:32:37 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: dennisw

Right now a certain South Florida police chief is sweating out what Rothstein reveals while ratting out his former associates.


8 posted on 12/16/2011 6:35:44 AM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: PJ-Comix

You must be talking about Fort Lauderdale’s very own affirmative action chief....


9 posted on 12/16/2011 6:59:44 AM PST by clintonh8r (Living well is no longer the best revenge. Revenge is now the best revenge.)
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"I feel like I just took six Viagra."

Hopefully the feds provided Viagra to his prison cellmate.


10 posted on 12/16/2011 7:01:49 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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