Sir Allen & Me: An Insider's Look at R. Allen Stanford and the Island of Antigua
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Antigua will restructure its financial system following the collapse of R. Allen Stanford's island-based empire when his alleged investment fraud unraveled, the governor general said Monday.
The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua -- A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.Martin ...
The Eagle Nation (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua -- A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.Martin ...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A partner at Davis Polk was tapped to lead the Justice Department's fraud section, which is prosecuting or investigating many of today's biggest fraud cases, from R. Allen Stanford to American International Group. '> http://bit.ly/qWPbX
Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In the St. Louis alternative newspaper, The Riverfront Times , James Lieber sizes up the prosecutions now underway for the economic collapse. Oh, wait. There aren't any prosecutions : As it stands now, there is only one federal prosecution related to the credit crash and bailout cycle, and it was begun by the Bush administration's Justice Department in June 2008. Not that there aren't culprits. Bernie...
Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Miami FBI held a press conference to discuss the ponzi scheme, run by lawyer, Scott Rothstein. It was revealed the damages in the Rothstein case are not $500,000,000 as stated previously in the press, but $1 billion dollars. Scott Rothstein Once again, the government's regulatory system has failed the nation and investors worldwide, as it did in other cases such as Bernard Madoff, R. Allen Stanford...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• BMW named as London's automotive partner • Australia fearing Olympic inadequacy Team 2012 is making steady progress towards its target of belatedly filling the £25m funding gap that emerged post Beijing. Having earlier this year bagged Visa as its main sponsor in a £10m deal, the coalition between UK Sport, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and the British...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Lawyers debated whether insurance should pay for R. Allen Stanford's criminal attorneys and whether a civil receiver can demand information those lawyers uncover.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The US receiver in charge of the collapsed empire of Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan financier, yesterday asked the UK's Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier decision...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The US receiver in charge of the collapsed empire of Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan financier, yesterday asked the UK's Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier decision...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Some of alleged swindler Allen Stanford's investors, including baseball star Johnny Damon, will see their funds returned after a U.S. appeals court ruled the receiver in the fraud case may not sue them.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Seven current and former major league baseball players, along with hundreds other investors, can keep the millions of dollars they put into R. Allen Stanford's purported $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Friday that while Mr. Stanford's "certificate of deposits" may have been phony, the agreement between...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The woman whose identity disclosure sent Scooter Libby to prison cannot say she's a spy. You know, if she was one. The 2nd Circuit ruled yesterday that Valerie Plame Wilson's First Amendment rights are not being violated by the CIA in their refusal to allow her to "publish information about her possible pre-2002 service with the Agency." Wilson's memior is Fair Game: My Life as a Spy . CIA...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's been a banner year for white collar crime. Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Marc Dreier, Raj Rajaratnam -- the names go on. With each case, investors or clients slapped their foreheads after the bust, wondering how warning signs were missed for so long. So, how to avoid the next Ponzi scheme or sketchy money making operation? Spare yourself the embarrassment -- and big financial losses -- by reading...
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