i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
is this woman, melissa, killed because she knew too much? after we think we had this solid, buttoned-up case, we do have the whole scott rothstein ponzi scheme comes into play? reporter: the fbi combed through the detectives files looking into a melissa-rothstein-ponzi link. they spent a week going through every inch of that case to find out if there was a connection to scott rothstein. reporter: with all these messy complications, tony s defense attorney, bruce fleisher, thought about two words, reasonable doubt. a lot of people thought that because of the rothstein ponzi scheme, that he had something to do with the murder of melissa lewis. reporter: and debra villegas was back in the hot seat herself, being grilled by homicide detectives who bluntly asked her about scott, the ponzi scheme and melissa s murder. she had her lawyer with her this time. was melissa aware of anything that scott was involved with? and i m i m gonna use a term the ponzi scheme. no. repo
with you here. because now that the search warrant has officially been unsealed, what are we learning about the items confiscated from mar-a-lago? well, alex, the warrant issued by the justice department provides both a detailed list of what the agents were looking for, and the trove of top secret and heavily classified documents that they found, during that search at mar-a-lago. a week of questions about why the fbi combed former president trump s mar-a-lago residents. punctuated with the newly unsealed search and seizure risk warrant. the court documents are guilty of elsa gaiters were searching for all physical documents and records, illegally possessing violation of three laws. including a part of the espionage act, the justice department describes as a key national defence and national security provision. federal agents removed 11 sets of classified documents. some, mark topsecret. sensitive compartmented event information. indicating a material that should only be viewed in a
0 hi alex. hi to you. yeah i m cranking up about what you are just saying, because i was watching you with the amenable and wonderful role in martin and charles coming up. going like, she s never gonna end on time. roland is never gonna letter and on time. and if he is the listening there, he knows exactly what i m talking about. but we love him, and his energy. and it was awesome. so hey, props to you for anchoring that. where you got him off on. time thank you, thank you very much. have a great show. thank you, see it next week. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest in the investigation into donald trump as we look now at the front page of today s new york times, highlighting the new york newly released search warrant on the criminal inquiry that prompted the search of trump s mar-a-lago resort. trump sports perks in taylor budowich yesterday accused the administration
this is scott rothstein, november 16th, monday, 1:43 p.m. reporter: he wore a wire and helped convict 26 people involved in his ponzi scheme. and despite his cooperation, in 2010, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. but one big question emerged, speculation about that woman in the firm who d been killed. whether melissa knew about the ponzi scheme is one of those great mysteries. reporter: scott had started his ponzi scheme three years before melissa was murdered. is it time to take a fresh look at the whole melissa lewis murder? is there something more sinister? reporter: detective brian kendall now had a whole new problem with his fairly straightforward case against tony, the jealous train engineer. is this woman, melissa, killed because she knew too much? after we think we had this solid, buttoned-up case, we do have the whole scott rothstein ponzi scheme comes into play? reporter: the fbi combed through the detectives files looking into a melissa-rothstein-pon