From: "Scott Kornspan" To: "Scott Srebnick" •, "Howard SREBNICIa>, "Jared Lopez" , "Larry Stumpf" , "Roy BLACK" Subject: Bob Norman Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:02:25 +0000 Rothstein Speaks As More Investors Come To Light By Bob Norman Fri., Nov. 20 2009 @ 8:58AM The Miami Herald found another investor in Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme and the story has a couple of interesting parts. First, Rothstein apparently answered his phone on Thursday. He told the Herald: "I keep seeing names on the Internet who were alleged investors of me and I have no idea who they are. There are sublayers of people doing very, very bad things to people in my name, so we shall see. Not that I didn't do something wrong, and I'm back here to fix it. I made a decision to come back from Morocco and do the right thing. I know people are laughing and saying he can't repay these people, and they are wrong." Well, that's reassuring. For a second there, I thought Rothstein might a total fraud. It's good to know he's going to repay those hundreds of millions of dollars. But what I really want to know is who these false investors are that he's read about on the Internet. I decided to to make a list of those known to date that are confirmed. But first, there's something interesting about the story involving the new investor, Todd Snyder. Snyder, a Coconut Grove businessman, reports that he was told by a friend and supposed investor, stock broker Doug Faulkner, that he was buying whistleblower settlements in a case involving the Dole Food Co. I happen to have heard all about that angle. The idea as proposed by Rothstein was that Dole had a juice contract with the federal government. The juice was supposed to be 100 percent pure — in Snyder's case it was pineapple juice -- but wasn't. On top of that, Rothstein, sometimes via reps, claimed that when the government caught wind of the problem and asked for samples to test, Dole provided fraudulently prepared cases of juice to foo