UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FORT LAUDERDALE DIVISION www.flsb.uscourts.gov IN RE: ROTHSTEIN ROSENFELDT ADLER, P.A., Debtor. CASE NO.: 09-3479 I -RBR CHAPTER 11 Opening Statement In 2008, a few years after leaving his position as an Assistant State Attorney, Brad Edwards began practice in his own firm and, shortly thereafter, he filed civil lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of multiple victims of Jeffrey Epstein's serial molestation of dozens of young children. In 2009, Brad Edwards took a job as an attorney at Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, Adler ("RRA") and continued the prosecution of those civil cases against Jeffrey Epstein. When the RRA law firm imploded, Edwards joined in forming the law firm of Farmer, Jaffe, Weissing, Edwards, Fistos & Lehrman ("Farmer Jaffe"), and continued prosecuting those cases. Days after the destruction of RRA, Jeffrey Epstein, for the purpose of exploiting the implosion of the RRA law firm, filed a false and baseless law suit in Palm Beach Case Number 50-2009-CA-040800 against Scott Rothstein, Brad Edwards, and L.M.—one of Epstein's many child victims. In late 2009, RRA was placed into bankruptcy and a trustee, Herb Stettin, was assigned. Herb Stettin was represented by the law firm of Berger Singerman. During the Palm Beach state court litigation, on or about April 16, 2010, Jeffrey Epstein served a subpoena on the bankruptcy trustee requesting, among other things, emails and correspondence to which Mr. Edwards was a party or on which he was copied while he was working as an attorney at RRA. The documents consisted primarily of emails that Brad Edwards sent, received, or was copied on which related to the Epstein civil prosecution and contained significant attorney-client and work-product privileged 1 EFTA00793668