Bodyguard Commits Suicide
Many are familiar with the story of Scott Rothstein, the high profile attorney who ran an infamous Ponzi Scheme to the tune of 1.2 billion dollars. On January 27, 2010, Rothstein pleaded guilty to 5 federal charges of rackerteering, fraud and money laundering.
One of the people hurt as the house of cards came tumbling down was, his bodyguard Robert “Big Bob” Scandiffio who was recently found dead of a self inflected gunshot wound.
Scandiffio lost his vehicle, his house, his job. He traveled to Morocco at Rothstein’s request where he said the former lawyer tried to convince him to take the fall for him. He lived in fear that somehow the Rothstein investigation would fall on him in some way or that the bankruptcy court would take action against him. He couldn’t find new work. He had fought cancer and had other serious physical problems, all the while trying to help raise his young daughter.
It was a terrible fall for Scandiffio, who at 6-foot-2 and a chiseled 260 pounds had worked as a bodyguard to the stars prior to his ill-fated stint with Rothstein, protecting celebrities like music mogul Tommy Mottola and Celine Dion.
Today Scandiffio died in an apparent suicide, a possibility he mentioned on numerous occasions. He shot himself at his apartment in Plantation at about 11:30 a.m., sources said, and didn’t leave any explanation behind. He was 50 years-old.
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* photo* Scott Rothstein center, Robert Scandiffio background.
