To facilitate her tireless campaign to win her husbands freedom, Rosalie Bolin has established her own private investigation company (Criminal Specialty Investigations, Inc.) in Tampa, Florida. Working out of that small office, Rosalie Bolin contracts herself and other associates in capital murder cases in both Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, as well as to lawyers representing death sentenced prisoners through the state funded office Commission on Capital Cases, known more commonly as registry counsel.
An examination of administrative records in these agencies shows that in recent years Rosalie Bolin has charged taxpayers almost half of a million dollars, systematically double billing these agencies for the same hours and expenses as other cases. Much of this taxpayer money has then been used to pay the lawyers retained to represent her husband, as well as various other questionable expenses.
Incredibly, the State of Florida has no oversight to prevent lawyers and investigators from systematically defrauding the legal system. Comparing administrative records from cases Rosalie Bolin was contracted to by the circuit courts in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties during the past five years it has become clear that Rosalie Bolin is systematically defrauding the system; committing grand theft at a massive scale.
Here is how she worked it, by being contracted to represent numerous clients in different jurisdictions Rosalie Bolin regularly bills the same hours and expenses to multiple cases. Since these agencies do not compare each others records, they have no way of knowing what she is doing.
These records do show that for at least the last five years Rosalie Bolin has made trips from Tampa to Starke, Florida (where death row is located) almost weekly. During these trips she will visit first with her legal clients, subsequently billing each client for the total expenses of the trip mileage, as well as the motel and food bills then the next day she will visit her condemned husband at the prison.
Although systematically committing felony fraud is in itself contemptible, what really makes what she is doing morally reprehensible is that in each of these cases the legal system has limits on how much money can be spent in each capital cases for investigations. This means that by systematically defrauding the system she is taking money away from these clients, effectively depriving them of any meaningful opportunity to have their own cases fully investigated as once she has exhausted the limits if what the legal system allows. Then no further money will be made available for investigations.
