275: Richard Stout – Billion Dollar Ponzi Schemer Scott Rothstein

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Richard Stout and investigative journalist Bob Norman review the case against Scott Rothstein, who convinced hundreds of wealthy investors to pay millions of dollars for fake legal settlements in the fourth largest Ponzi scheme in US history. In addition to economic fraud, the case also covered other illegal activities, including bank fraud, public corruption, organized crime, illegal campaign contributions, and pay-to-play politics. The case resulted in the arrest and prosecution of 30 individuals. Stout and Norman are working together on A Great Fall, their upcoming true crime book and series about Scott Rothstein. Rich Stout served in the FBI for 22 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 275 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.7	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:21.0	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:26.0	Today we get to speak to a retired agent, Richard Stout, who served in the FBI for 22 years.
0:34.3	In this episode, Rich and Investigative Journalist Bob Norman review the billion dollar Ponzi
0:42.6	Scheme case perpetrated by Scott Rothstein, who was able to convince hundreds of wealthy
0:50.1	investors to pay millions of dollars for fake legal settlements.
0:55.6	This is the fourth largest Ponzi Scheme in US history.
1:00.2	In addition to economic crime, this case, full of pay-to-play politics, also covered other
1:06.4	illegal activities, including bank fraud, public corruption, organized crime, and illegal
1:13.0	campaign contributions.
1:15.4	The case resulted in the arrest and prosecution of 30 individuals.
1:20.8	Stout and Norman are working together on a great fall, their upcoming true crime book
1:27.0	and series about this case.
1:29.8	During his FBI career, Richard Stout specialized in public corruption cases in the FBI's Miami
1:36.4	Division.
1:37.4	He created the South Florida public corruption task force and directed multiple complex
1:43.1	investigations in that role.
1:45.4	He was on the SWAT team and was deployed around the world.
1:49.2	He spent the latter part of his career as a technically trained agent.
1:54.6	He is currently the CEO and managing director for Stout Security Consultants, a physical
2:00.7	and information security risk management company, specializing in the detection of technical
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