Federal prosecutors say Ponzi scheme purveyor Scott Rothstein deserves a break — just not as much as his defense attorney wants.
The lawyer who turned his fast-growing Fort Lauderdale, Fla., firm into a vehicle for Florida’s largest Ponzi scheme — defrauding investors of $1.2 billion — should spend 40 years in prison, federal prosecutors told U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn in a sentencing memorandum filed Monday.
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