Legal Ethics
Federal Jury Acquits Fla. Real Estate Closing Attorney in $7.8M Mortgage Fraud Case
A 55-year-old Florida real estate lawyer was acquitted of 13 counts of bank fraud yesterday when a federal jury in Miami apparently agreed with the defense that Eve Rosen was unaware of the $7.8 million scheme allegedly orchestrated by a Broward County developer.
Prosecutors called Rosen, who served as closing attorney, “deliberately ignorant” of what they described as a situation involving straw buyers, falsified documents and inflated prices for vacant lots purchased in north Florida between 2006 and 2008, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
But “there was not one witness on the stand who could point to say that she knew” what was going on, contended attorney Russell Koonin.
