From: "Roy BLACK" c:e- To: "jeevacation®gmail.com" <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Fw: Bob Norman Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:52 +0000 Embedded: mime_part_l.eml Original Message From: Scott Kornspan To: Scott Srebnick < > To: Howard SREBNICK To: Jared Lopez To: Larry Stumpf < To: Roy BLACK < Sent: 11/19/2009 10:33:46 AM Subject: Bob Norman Rothstein's Marathon Dance With The Feds By Bob Norman Thu., Nov. 19 2009 @ 8:30AM It's time to set a lot of people straight on what is going on with Scott Rothstein (and get a comment cleaner up here). One of the main things you hear when you bring him up is people who just can't believe he's "walking free." They point to the video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=LQHxM80yKrg&feature=player_embedded )I shot of Rothstein at Capital Grille and say, "Why is he running around drinking martinis after he's stolen hundreds of million dollars?" Based on what I know about the way federal investigations generally work, which is between nothing and a whole lot, I can almost guarantee you that Rothstein is for all intents and purposes in federal custoday already. He's in a hotel or safehouse somewhere outside his old stomping ground of downtown Fort Lauderdale -- not the Riverside, for instance -- and, as others have already surmised, he's trying to shave some years off a life sentence. Rothstein will of course not escape or go free. That is not an option. A getaway, via escape or plea bargain, by Rothstein would count as one of the largest blunders in federal law enforcement history. It can't happen. Plus, Rothstein already escaped with a millions of dollars and was set up for the life of a rich fugitive in Morocco. Guess what? He came back. Life as a fugitive sucks. It's lonely and it's scary. Takes a special kind of person to live as a fugitive and Rothstein obviously isn't that kind of person. Plus, there's a good chance that some very angry and very heavy former associates might have put him ou