Deposition Transcript of Scott Rothstein (Albert ... - Trustee Services

1 How do you explain the difference in the
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2 invoices?
3 A. The difference is the money that we stole
4 with Albert Peter.
5 Q. What do you mean by that?
6 A. We were engaged in a scheme with Albert
7 Peter to embezzle money from Silversea utilizing
8 fraudulent legal bills, and what would occur is the
9 following: In this particular circumstance we
10 printed up a real bill, which was the one which
11 actually has the time entries on it with the people
12 who performed it. We then had the bill redone by
13 someone, they hand did it on the system, without the
14 time entries.
15 We used a format that did not have the
16 biller or the time entry. We discussed how much we
17 were going to bill with Albert Peter. We printed up
18 the forged bill with the bumped amount and the bills
19 were always hand-delivered to Mr. Peter, and on this
20 particular occasion and on some others we gave him
21 both bills -- the one with the entries and the one
22 that did not have the entries -- the fraudulent
23 bill -- so that he could see the amount specifically
24 that we actually did and how much we bumped --
25 Q. Was this the ---