A former attorney in the law firm of Scott Rothstein, a former prominent South Florida attorney now serving time in federal prison, was sentenced Sept. 2 to two years in prison for his role in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme in which investors were induced to buy interests in nonexistent settlement awards and bogus loans, federal prosecutors announced in a written statement (United States v. Kusnick).
In addition to the 24-month prison sentence, Judge Kenneth A. Marra, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, ordered Howard Kusnick to pay $310,000 in restitution, U.S. Attorney ...
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