Deposition of Scott Rothstein re - Trustee Services

1 BY MR. PHILLIPS:
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2 Q. Did you ever tell -- by the way, do you
3 recall what the ethical rules are with respect to an
4 attorney going into business or investment deals with
5 his own clients?
6 A. Yeah. There has to be a significant amount
7 of disclosure to get past the Bar rules.
8 Q. Did you ever provide any written disclosures
9 or documentation to or receive from Barry Lipsitz or
10 Domenick Tonacchio any disclosure about going into
11 business with you about these investment deals?
12 A. That's not the way that Domenick and Barry
13 and I did business.
14 Q. Well, did you ever tell them -- strike that.
15 Well, as an attorney -- at the time you were
16 still a practicing lawyer, weren't you?
17 A. Practicing is an interesting word for what I
18 was doing, so it was sort of practicing, yes.
19 Q. Okay. Well, you knew that's what you should
20 have done. Whether that's not the way you did
21 business, that would have been the right thing to do
22 as the attorney, correct?
23 MR. GAY: Objection to form.
24 THE WITNESS: Yes, had I been adhering to
25 all the ethical rules set forth by the Florida Bar, I