Allen Stanford Hospitalized After Fight With Another Inmate

CONROE, Texas — A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez said Stanford was being treated Friday after a Thursday altercation at the private Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe about 40 miles north of Houston.

Perez says the 59-year-old's injuries aren't life threatening but declined to discuss details of the altercation. He says the incident is under investigation.

Stanford attorney Kent Schaffer says he hadn't talked with his client as of Friday evening but had been told the injuries aren't serious.

Stanford is charged with bilking investors of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of more than $7 billion.

Comments

[BorseGermany]

The disconnect between the problems facing main street and Washington keep widening. For the past year we've heard nothing but talk of regulation, but zero action. What a joke.

good articles... http://www.iamned.com

meanwhile, the stock market is surging and everyone is too busy to counting their money to show any initiative

[Sherrie714]

HA HA!!! Who's gonna run this town????

[NevaforLeadership]

Well, one thing about Stanford: his life is not dull.

[GoodFeathers]

The man hasn't been found guilty in the court of law. Why is he being subjected to this type of treatment? Let's say, by remote chance, he didn't do any of the things he is accused of. What then? Can the state give back his dignity?

[HazerX]

Moral of the story?

Stay out of jail.

[mrcontinental]

Is he in a womens prison?

[RobinsonRoad]

LOL!!!!

[SaneBull]

Yay stocks surging on Wall Street. Lets forget about high unemployment, wall street greed & corruption, and heath care reform. Happy days are here again for the rich, while everyone else goes though the same $h1t everyday.

good articles; http://www.iamned.com

Ppl have no money, no heath care, no home, no job, no sanity.

[Soulsurfer]

Not exactly like a disagreement with an investment banker, is it?

[AppleJuiceJunkie316]

Learn to use the Dark Side of the Force Stanford, and you'll be able to use a power greater than any Jedi.

[iplaw]

I think we should bring back trial by combat.

[DailyFed]

Wall street reform, universal healthcare/reform, Guantanomo closure, Iraq/Afghanistan pull out-not a single one of these objectives have been met by the Obama administration. Worse, there there's no evidence any progress is being made.

good articles; http://www.iamned.com

If obama loses to the teab@ggrs it will be his fault
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[nellpost]

Now, why is that posted here?

[liberalmyers]

This guy has posted this same crap all over Hffpo,I've seen it on every article.

[StJames]

I think he's lost. :)

[chayefsky]

What a prince!

[dukesman2000]

Sanford had to shank a snitch

[iplaw]

Maybe someone was running one of those cigarettes for fellatio ponzi schemes?

[Imhotep40]

LOL . . . . and I think it was Stamford that got pissed when they didn't provide the cigarettes (after the fact) as promised!

[runforfun54]

Oh shucks, maybe he got upset that someone suggested he wasn't THAT good at Ponzi schemes after all.

[SocialistBoy]

Oh! Somebody gave him a slipadictame!! That happens.

[StJames]

LMAO!

[sloreader]

Surprised it took so long for Sir Stanford to get a beat down.

[runforfun54]

When is it Madoff's turn?

[nellpost]

When is it Delay's turn?

[iplaw]

There are a lot worse crooks than Madoff around, unfortunately we call most of them Congressmen.

[sloreader]

It probably helps that he goes by Bernie and not Sir Bernie.