when the walls come down

Oh how they will run into the basement when more of this comes out.
just a detail Yeaaaaa
Steve get a u-haul truck quick

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-b ... 3947.story

Better call the IRS now !!!!

Thanks for the black eye to everyone who allowed this detail to exist. HOW COULD YOU NOT SEE THIS COMING? Greed got the best of all of you nomatter what your excuses. :devil:

This was not just a detail, many of these guys and gals knew there was a problem. Money thrown at the cops just does not add up. When the rate and extras don’t add up for the work done how stupid can you be Steve and company. This was a body guard program which they hid as a detail and was blessed by the administration...

Yea we can’t do that under the detail rules but it was done here. The Chief knew, staff knew and they worked it. Police cars on site all the time at many of his locations that should have been working. I guess when you can eat at the restaurant for free $$$$ several times week you can look over a lot.

Time for and outside agency to take a look at this mess like the FBI. They make fun of Miami but you jerks just took us down to that level. Hey internal affairs you may want to get off your butts on this one.
Peal back the onion here or did the Captain of IA work the detail as well?

Where's Steve? In the Witness Protection Program? Does he still "work" in Dis 3 evenings? I was wondering... not that he was around doing his job much anyway before this all started....

Nice going FLPD. . . .we eat our own young!

You bet we eat our own on this one jerk. This is pure corruption here, money for cops to do what the money buys. It you feel that is eating our own then serve me a large plate. We never had this issue at FLPD and now we do because of a young greedy Sgt and girl cop buddy. So if you indorse this stuff and have issues with it being exposed then call him for a detail or a side job. Just hide the money He belongs in Jail !

Where's Steve? In the Witness Protection Program? Does he still "work" in Dis 3 evenings? I was wondering... not that he was around doing his job much anyway before this all started....

He was at the house helping to count the money but not on patrol. Sad

So much for sarge and his little squeeze toy. They both need to be on the unemployment line right after they speak to their attorney. Don't they have a good friend who is an attorney???? Lets see if Captain IA will do the right thing or just brush it off. His pockets are probably full!!!

FORT LAUDERDALE - Twenty-eight city police officials, including captains, majors, undercover officers and the department spokesman, helped guard the home and businesses of attorney Scott Rothstein while, federal agents say, he ran a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.

Rothstein has not been charged or arrested, but federal agents seized his assets this week.

Records released Friday show the off-duty work by Fort Lauderdale police at Rothstein's home in Harbor Beach, his Bova Prime restaurant on Las Olas, and the nearby Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm was so heavy, it required two police officials to coordinate. Rothstein's cadre of uniformed officers included many high-ranking supervisors in the department. Two coordinators, Sgt. Steve Greenlaw and Officer DeAnna Garcia, were paid a 5.5 percent cut of the security-guarding total each week.
As Broward County absorbs the shocking allegations in the case, new attention has turned to Rothstein's coziness with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and to one official at Broward Sheriff's Office. Rothstein's friendship with officers and deputies dates back 20 years, with his work as a labor attorney representing police officers and unions. At least one investor said he bragged about his closeness to law enforcement.

Fort Lauderdale police officials said Friday that their officers were not witnesses to criminal activity during their 24-hour work for Rothstein, and no officer raised any concerns that an investigation into economic crimes might be warranted.

"There is no police department employee that had any idea what was going on, to my knowledge," said Sousa, the spokesman, who worked at Rothstein's home several times and filled in occasionally at Bova. "… There is no wrongdoing on the part of our officers."

Rothstein was the only person in the department's history to have permanent round-the-clock off-duty police protection at his home. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley said he stands by his decision to allow the one-of-a-kind guard duty. Rothstein met the city policy that the employer not be a felon, and be of good moral character, he said.

Rothstein paid $40 to $50 an hour to the officers over 31 weeks beginning in April. At a weekly tab of at least $7,545 just for guarding his home, and $2,000 a week at the law firm, the total would have hit $296,000 by the time it ended. He also spent at least $31,620 for the Bova detail.

The department halted all work for Rothstein on Nov. 2, after investors raised concerns that the attorney may have misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars.

Adderley said he was friendly with Rothstein, ate at Bova every Thursday and attended a political fund-raising party at his home but didn't socialize with him.

He said he knew Rothstein gave money to the poor and had no evidence he was "anything less than a good citizen." He didn't see this coming and was shocked when allegations came to light.

"Who is not shocked by this?" Adderley said.

Friday, Rothstein remained a free man, as federal agents said they were working to build a case in what is now thought to be one of South Florida largest investment frauds.

Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said the agency did no off-duty detail work for Rothstein. But Rothstein's ties to at least one Sheriff's Office employee are under scrutiny this week.

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti on Thursday moved one of Rothstein's longtime friends, Lt. David Benjamin, out of his position as commander over Internal Affairs, because of his relationship with Rothstein. Benjamin provided a personal escort to Rothstein to get aboard a jet and leave the country to Morocco two weeks ago.

Lamberti said the Sheriff's Office also opened an investigation Friday into a corporation Benjamin has, DWB Consulting Group LLC, "to determine whether his outside business met all the BSO rules and regulations regarding outside employment."

Political consultant and former Rothstein associate Roger Stone said he met Benjamin and Col. Tom Wheeler of the Sheriff's Office at Rothstein's home last year. They were planning Lamberti's election campaign.

Stone said he originally thought Rothstein's desire to be surrounded by officers was part of the trappings of wealth and power. Now he thinks Rothstein might have been threatened by investors. He called Rothstein's police connections "genius."

"If you're surrounded by cops, no one will suspect you're a crook," said Stone.

Rothstein said this summer that the March 2008 murder of his friend and colleague, Melissa Britt Lewis, scared him into hiring full-time police guards, though he'd had bodyguards in the past.

"I am a businessman," he said. "I don't want to be followed home and shot."

Staff writers Paula McMahon, Robert Nolin and Lisa Huriash, and researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.

Brittany Wallman can be reached at 954-356-4541 or bwallman@sunsentinel.com.

Well, whats the verdict. Was the IA Captain involved? Did he work the detail? Enquiring minds would like to know.