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Level 3, and to a limited extent Mr. Glass, have been engaged in certain civil litigation arising out of the collapse of the now-defunct 70-lawyer South Florida firm, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, P.A. ("RRA"). RRA collapsed after a federal grand jury charged Scott W. Rothstein, the firm's named partner, with
invest with Rothstein directly. They were lenders to certain Nevada finance companies called Banyon Investments and Banyon Resources ("Banyon"), and Banyon was unable to repay the loans when Rothstein's scheme collapsed. Both the U.S. District Court in Miami and the U.S. Attorney in Miami have recogniz
nonetheless ensnared in certain civil litigation surrounding RRA. The Funds commenced involuntary bankruptcies against guarantors of their loans to Banyon. In re Gayla Sue Levin, Case No. 10-27946-BKC-JKO (Bankr. S.D. Fla.) and In re George Levin, Case No. 10-33696-BKC-RBR (Bankr. S.D. Fla.) (the "Levi
ow, trust, and operating accounts. Despite the grossly inordinate amount of funds being rapidly wired in and out of RRA's accounts held at two local South Florida branches, these suspicious account activities inexplicably circumvented several fraud-risk tripwires and avoided detection by TD Bank's internal ba
rs' inner-circle of facilitators (TD Bank, Spinosa, Kerstetter, Caretsky, Gibraltar Bank, Berenfeld, Weintraub, Berkowitz, Leitstein, Levin, Preve, Banyon entities, Szafranski, Onyx, Villegas, Boden, Barnett, Stay, Platinum, and Centurion) and promoters (TD Bank, Spinosa, Kerstetter, Caretsky, Gibralta
ties are hereinafter collectively referred to as "the Banyon Investors." 114. Logistically, the Banyon Investors were Limited Partners in BIF while Banyon 1030-32, served as the General Partner and Levin as the Managing Partner. 115. Notably, at no time during his courtship of Mr. Von Allmen, did Bek
. 329. These high overdraft fees coupled with Rothstein's ability to get Gibraltar Bank's president Hayworth an audience with the biggest names in South Florida provides valuable insight as to why Gibraltar was so willing to provide such substantial assistance. 330. Further, Gibraltar's willingness to prov
cipation; m. in late November, TD Bank fired Spinosa; B. Levin, Preve and Banyon 309. Plaintiffs have discovered, relative to Levin, Preve, and Banyon, that: a. an $8,000,000.00 wire transfer confirmation used by Levin, Preve, and Rothstein to induce Razorback's $32,000,000.00 payment was never
exceed two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000.00). 38 Leitstein even joked with other Berenfeld employees who toyed with the idea of telling "the Banyon investors we can do better than the 20% return they are getting, lol." Page 146 of 2210 CONRAD & SCHERER, LLP, 633 SOUTH FEDERAL HIGHWAY, FORT LAU
ike to answer most of your 2 questions, Mr. today, however, 3 especially since your firm has been described by 4 the United States Attorney in South Florida as a 5 criminal enterprise purported to -- purported to 6 have put -- pulled off the largest fraud in 7 Florida's history, I would like to answ
igators observed Epstein's Escalade exit his residence driven by with no other occupants observed. The vehicle was followed to the intersection of Banyon and North Olive, where it remained occupied by the bodyguard and parked. Ban ot and North Olive is approximately five (5) miles southeast from Epst
Entities connected to both South Florida and Banyon

Jeffrey Epstein
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Bradley Edwards
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George W. Bush
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Prince Andrew
PERSONJane Doe
PERSONScott Rothstein
PERSONthe Southern District
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Barry Diller
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Broward County
LOCATIONFlorida Bar
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Lawrence Krauss
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Bradley Cooper
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Rosenfeldt
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Morocco
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Las Vegas
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Adler
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TD Bank
ORGANIZATIONRothstein Rosenfeldt Adler
ORGANIZATIONDavid Boden
PERSONMiami-Dade County
LOCATION