Scott Rothstein, a disbarred South Florida Jewish lawyer, pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges alleging he ran a $1.2 billion fraud that paid for his lifestyle and donations to Governor Charlie Crist and other politicians. Jewish Rothstein, 47, faces 100 years in prison if convicted of two counts of wire fraud and three conspiracy charges filed yesterday. Prosecutors say his law firm was a racketeering... 

Attorney Scott Rothstein returned to Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday after contemplating suicide amid mounting allegations that he misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars from an investment business he covertly ran out of his law office. Stuart Rosenfeldt, the president of the Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler law firm, said he was told that Rothstein met with federal prosecutors after his chartered...