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Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Kendall Coffey
Kendall Coffey is a former United States attorney and practicing lawyer in Florida who, in 2009, mislabeled what Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein was peddling as structured settlements in a complaint against Scott Rothstein which sparked an outrageous media mislabeling frenzy.
Coffey was notably involved in the Elian Gonzalez case. Gonzalez , then a 6 year old boy found near the shores of Florida in 1999, after a boat escaping Cuba had capsized and killed most of the passengers, including Gonzalez’ mother. Relatives in the United States fought to keep Gonzalez, but he was eventually sent back to Cuba.
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Kendall Coffey proliferated the confusion, in the interest of self promotion, by continuing to post a video interview with Fox News that suggests that Rothstein was actually selling structured settlements? Kendall Coffey’s been asked to prove it, take down the video, or correct the inaccuracy which led to a storm of misinformation from the national…
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As you can see there is no place in the Scott Rothstein charging document that refers to “structured settlements”. And that’s that!
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Former United States Attorney Kendall Coffey’s huge Rothstein blunder led to extensive media misinformation.. Kendall Coffey was later corrected on WPLG-TV by investor Alan Sakowitz, who noted that the legal settlements in question could NOT have been structured settlements.