in South Florida, was convicted on three counts of wire fraud by a federal jury this week. Kitterman was accused of aiding her former boss, Scott Rothstein, who is now disbarred and was the managing director of Rothstein.While testifying in her own defense, Kitterman told the jurors, "I thought I was helping our firm." She emphasized that she had no idea that her boss was involved in fraud until he had fled to Morocco, which happened months after the phone call that constituted much of the primary evidence against her.
Currently Rothstein is serving a 50-year federal prison term under the witness protection program for a $1.2 billion fraud. He is attempting to bargain an early release by cooperating with the authorities.
It was Kitterman's defense who took the risk of calling upon Rothstein to testify, but it didn't work out, as he described Kitterman as a willing participant in the fraud and belonging to his circle of "friends with benefits." Kitterma n, who is still continuing her private practice in Boca Raton, could face as much as nine years or more in federal prison.
Juror Susan Schweiger told the media that the jurors took Rothstein as a credible witness. She said, "I don't understand why he was called by the defense because he did not help her … I think he was, for the most part, telling the truth … we believed him."
