FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It is a tightly woven bond between a lawyer accused of bilking investors out of millions and the person in charge of the money.

So tight, alleged swindler Scott Rothstein gave his bookkeeper a house, according to state documents.

Under the corporate alter ego "WAWW4 LLC," a special deed spelled out Rothstein's gift, in July, to Chief Operating Officer Debra Villegas.

It appears all that was paid were $.70 in postage and document fees for the roughly $400,000 home on Carrington Drive in Weston.

Local 10 called Villegas Thursday night but her line was disconnected.

Debra Villegas has been in the news before. Her husband, Tony Villegas, is accused of the 2008 killing of Melissa Lewis, an attorney who had just been made partner in Rothstein's firm.

But it was Villegas, by all accounts, who was Rothstein's right-hand woman, Local 10's Janine Stanwood reported.

"A long-time, closely trusted employee and friend of Scott Rothstein," said Kendall Coffey, an attorney representing the firm.

Her office was in the inner sanctum. She was one of four in the firm with prime access.

"Electronic access to the trust accounts that had been the huge core of the problem here," Coffey said.

Her home in Weston is one in a long list properties owned by Rothstein, or by the approximately 50 corporations that traced back to him.