Dec 01 2009
Miami Strip Clubs: Miami Attorney Rothstein Arrested In Ponzi Scheme Miami Attorney Rothstein …
Rothstein’s choice of business and personal associates included cigar sellers, jewelry store owners, vodka makers, and nightclub and strip club owners. He also had several associates and people on staff who were either convicted of a crime or had direct ties to criminal cases:
Rothstein hired former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne right after he served his jail sentence.Rothstein friend Ovadia Levy is the son of Shimon Levy, who was identified in media reports as having ties to Israeli organized crime. Shimon Levy was a business partner to Zvika Yuz, who was shot in his Mercedes-Benz outside the Sea Club Ocean Resort on Fort Lauderdale’s beach in May 1997.The Business Journal was first to report that Rothstein’s biggest investor, George G. Levin of the Banyon funds, ran a company called GGL or Classic Motor Carriages that was charged with fraud in the mid-1990s. GGL pleaded guilty to wire fraud.In a recent lawsuit filed by investors, Levin’s business manager, Frank Preve, was identified as a convicted felon in a financial fraud. The lawsuit, handled …