1.0 link 220601 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aram-roston/new-documents-on-accused_b_220601.html Previously undisclosed documents show that the Bush-era Justice Department promised to take "appropriate investigative steps" concerning possible corruption by now indicted banker Allen Stanford in 2004, but Stanford wasn't shut down until 2009. So what happened?

Stanford, a Texas billionaire, offshore banker, and gargantuan political donor to both Democrats and Republicans, was indicted last week. But prosecutors also charged the top banking regulator in Stanford's adopted island nation of Antigua with being in on the scheme: they said...

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