A struggling investment banker who was
says he was able to pay off the debt and avoid jail thanks to … Donald Trump!
“I’m not going to attribute it all to our president-elect but there has been a significant shift in the markets,” said an attorney for small cap securities trader Robert Roever in Manhattan court Tuesday.
“So thanks to Donald Trump he is going to have money?” a surprised Judge Lori Sattler asked.
“I don’t want to give Mr. Trump all the credit. It’s also due to deals Mr. Roever has been working on,” said the attorney, Carlos Carvajal.
The Dow closed above 19,000 for first time in its history Tuesday.
Roever, president of Capitoline Advisors, refused to say whether he voted for Trump.
“I don’t think it’s relevant,” he said.
He was last in court in early November when Judge Sattler gave the Manhattan resident three weeks to come up with the child support for his adopted 10-year-old son after paying only $1,200 over 17 months.
Michael Stutman, counsel to Roever’s estranged wife, quipped that the banker and Trump are two of a kind.
“It’s no surprise that a man who will say anything no matter where he is to get what he wants makes a reference to our president-elect,” Stutman said.
Stutman had called Roever’s poverty pleas into question, reminding the judge that he had said he earned $300,000 on a rental application.
Roever still owes his soon-to-be ex, former Russian model Alisa Cawley, $50,000 under their prenuptial agreement plus another $15,000 in legal fees.
“It’s just so sad the way I have to extract money. I have to go through all this to get money,” Cawley said.
And Roever still faces jail time over that remaining $65,000.
Judge Sattler ordered a hearing to determine if Roever had the money to pay child support, but was willfully withholding it.
“There has to be a finding as to willfulness before he’s incarcerated,” Sattler said.
“If there is such a finding he will be incarcerated,” she said.
After court Tuesday Roever backed off an earlier plan to un-adopt his 10-year-old child after The Post published an exclusive story saying he treated the kid like a toxic asset.
“All he cares about is the well-being of his son,” Carvajal said.
