Already having pleaded guilty to federal charges in a $1.3 Billion Florida Ponzi Scheme a woman is free while she cooperates with the U.S. Government. The law firm where the Ponzi was being carried out is now bankrupt and shuttered. So the office manager finds herself unemployed. My source sends me a news story from the Sun Sentinel where it’s reported she’s receiving unemployment benefits provided by the law abiding taxpayers in Florida. How is this possible? What public policy awards convicted criminals who are awaiting incarceration? Why isn’t she in prison while she cooperates with federal authorities? This is all a part of the Participation Trophy Syndrome thinking.

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I’m curious, how does a convicted criminal awaiting incarceration qualify for "unemployment benefits" under Florida law? Is criminal fraud in Florida not “cause” for firing that makes a person ineligible? And you wonder why our country is almost bankrupt? This logic escapes me completely.

Villegas, 43, has remained free since her October sentencing so she can continue cooperating with the government. She admitted to forging signatures on phony legal settlements that Rothstein used to draw investors into his Ponzi scheme.

For further reading follow the links below:

• Did honesty get Florida lawyer, Melissa Lewis, killed? UPDATED 11/19/2009
• What motivated someone to kill Melissa Lewis, the attorney?
• Is the Melissa Lewis Murder Motive ID'd in the Rothstein Plea Agreement with the United States?
• Gangsters, Banksters and RICeO’s abound with new and old fraudulent schemes
• Wall Street Banksters Are Proud to be Greedy
• What sentence might a Ponzi lawyer get?
• Rothstein Expected to be Charged and Arrested Today
• Are the Movie Camera Lighs Blinding the Eyes of the Broward County Sheriff'
• Who took your 401K Pension Plan money?
• APOLOGY SHIELD, THE EMPORER’S NEW CLOTHES