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I'm hesitant to add to the massive amount of digital ink that has been spilled on this slightly overreported story, but I am quite sure the handsome South Beach canoodler is the perfect guy to carry the anti-celibacy message to the new Pope -- who recently restored the pre-Vatican II prayer for conversion of the Jews and also may or may not have been a former Nazi.

Hey, makes sense to me -- I live in Florida!

Anyone still into mortgage fraud? Boy those were the days.

Anyways, I see there has been an update in that odd story I reported on earlier involving UM Law grad Delaila Estefano -- looks like she has been suspended indefinitely pending disposition of the criminal case.

Anyone who knows more on this story, feel free to contact me directly.

Holy hail, look at that -- DBR ace John Pacenti nabbed an exclusive interview with the notoriously media-shy Lew Freeman!

Lew, don't let me down -- I need some screwball metaphors stat! I need some non sequiturs and I need them now! I need one (or two, or three) Titanic references and they better be good:

“We are in the eye of the hurricane. This is the calm,” Freeman said.

Ok, this time he went with a naturally-occuring disaster. What else:

“That’s the trend we are going to see in the future: The superhero of the court system and litigation,” Freeman said.

Superhero? But Lew, they're all ambivalent, conflicted and moody nowadays.

Let's have something classy and high-road to finish up with:

“There’s so much backed up that when it comes out we are going to need hip boots,” he said. “It’s going to stink, and it’s going to be deep.”

"And I'm just talking about breakfast," Freeman added.

Oy -- you may want to revisit the Titanic references there, Lew.

Ok, let's get Rothstein out of the way:

John Pacenti and the Herald report on how Scott allegedly bilked this investor just weeks before he took off for Morocco.

The purported "investment opportunity" is insultingly stupid:

The deal offered a return of eight percent per month for the following four months. It involved a purported lawsuit against California-based Dole, which Faulkner said had settled for $500 million in the face of accusations that it had overstated the percentage of pineapple in juices it sold to school districts.

So this is a secret whistleblower action -- possibly unfiled -- in which Dole forks over a half billion over mislabeling the content of its pineapple juice? And for some reason Dole wants to pay this half billion out over time?

In what imaginary world do cases like this exist?

But you know, the kids still got some juice and that's the important thing.

Oy what a goyisher kup.

But Scottie says he doesn't know this particular investor and I for one believe him:

"I keep seeing names on the Internet who were alleged investors of me and I have no idea who they are,'' Rothstein told The Herald on Thursday. "There are sublayers of people doing very, very bad things to people in my name, so we shall see.''

"Not that I didn't do something wrong, and I'm back here to fix it,'' he said. "I made a decision to come back from Morocco and do the right thing. I know people are laughing and saying he can't repay these people, and they are wrong.''

Marc, why is your client still giving interviews to the Herald?

Also Scott, people are not laughing over whether you can repay the investors -- there's plenty of other things about this fiasco to laugh about, believe me.

Alright, let's move on.

So two lawyers at Mayer Brown recently wrote about County of Nassau v. Hotels.com, where the 2d Circuit raised the issue of CAFA jurisdiction nostra sponte (take that, Latin nerds!) and remanded the case to the district court "to determine whether class certification is appropriate" in order to determine whether CAFA jurisdiction exists.