On Fifth Anniversary Of Rothstein's $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme, Questions Remain

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It was ego fueled. We were rolling, you know, we were — we were all, me, Stu, Lippman, Adler, Boden, we were living like rock stars; private jets, massive amounts of money. There were lots of things that kept fueling that. As I’m sure you realize from looking at everything, there came a point in time when the only portion about it, which was money, was keeping the Ponzi going. We had more than enough money to fuel our lifestyles. It was the power that got ahold of us and kept pulling this forward; the more power, the more money, the more money the more power, it kept going back and forth until in exploded.



- Scott Rothstein 2011 deposition testimony