Michael Brent Rothenberg, a former San Francisco venture capitalist who has been dubbed “Silicon Valley’s Party Animal” by Bloomberg, was convicted by a federal jury of wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and making false statements to a bank, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of California.
Evidence introduced at the trial established that Mr. Rothenberg’s schemes resulted in approximately $18.8 million in missing money.