Scott W. Rothstein (age 47), born in the Bronx, New York City, is the 2002 founding co-partner, managing shareholder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler law firm. The firm has 70 members and 150 employees, and has offices in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tallahassee, Florida, New York and, Caracas, Venezuela.

Rothstein is also a Republican fundraiser for former president George W. Bush and Governor of Florida and United States Senate candidate, Charlie Crist. The firm focused on labor and employment matters, civil rights, intellectual property, internet law, corporate espionage, personal injury, wrongful death, commercial litigation, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and governmental relations.

His client list includes: Citicorp, J. C. Penny, Ed Morse Automotive Group, National Beverage, Silversea Cruise Lines, Supra Telecom, Wells Fargo. Rothstein is a member of the Florida Bar and admitted by the United States Supreme Court.

He has been given an "AV" peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He is suspected - not yet charged - of funding his philanthropy and political contributions with a massive Ponzi scheme. Coined a "modern day Robin Hood," he likely spread more money to the needy of South Florida than the government’s Stimulus package of 2009.

Rothstein may have stolen millions of dollars from an investment side-business. On November 3, 2009, Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of the Treasury agents served a warrant to search the firm's Fort Lauderdale offices. Rothstein sent an email in recent weeks to firm lawyers asking them to investigate which countries refused to extradite criminal suspects to either the U.S. or Israel, and firm lawyers responded that Morocco is one such country.

Rothstein had wired $16 million to an individual in Casablanca and left for Casablanca on October 26, 2009. On October 31, 2009, he sent a suicide text message note to all of his law partners: On November 3, 2009, after many texts by Stuart Rosenfeldt, the president of the firm, urging him to "choose life", Rothstein returned to Fort Lauderdale on a chartered jet, (owned by the ex-husband of Governor Crist's wife, Todd Rome) from Casablanca. On November 2, his law firm with only $117,000 in its operating account filed suit against him, asked a judge to dissolve the firm, accusing him of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars from investor trust accounts in a Ponzi scheme from an investment business he covertly ran out of his law office.

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