Allen Stanford

The Most Scandalous White-Collar Cases Of 2009 (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business


Bernie Madoff is only one of the white-collar offenders exposed this year for bilking the country out of millions. Whether stealing from dying family...

Geithner Aides Paid Millions By Banks, Hedge Funds: Bloomberg

Robert Schmidt | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars...

Allen Stanford Hospitalized After Fight With Another Inmate

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business


CONROE, Texas — A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being inj...

Allen Stanford Appointed Public Defender

ABC News | VIC WALTER and MEGAN CHUCHMACH | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


Flamboyant former billionaire financier 'Sir' Allen Stanford has been ordered a public defender in his $7 billion fraud case because he has no money f...

Does Higher Learning Mean Greener Learning?

Gay Browne | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Gay Browne

Greenopia announces its environmental ratings for the 100 largest schools in the US. At the top of the list were the University of Washington and the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Former Stanford CFO: Firm Had Blood Oaths, Bribes, Fake Profits

AP | Juan A. Lozano | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business


HOUSTON (AP) -- The former finance chief for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford said his boss created a business empire where blood oaths were t...

Allen Stanford Hospitalized

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business


HOUSTON — The former finance chief for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford said his boss created a business empire where blood oaths were t...

Chavez Aids Antigua After Stanford Fraud Scandal

Reuters | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


The tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, on Thursday found ...

Allen Stanford Dickipedia

Dickipedia/HuffPost Comedy | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy


Sir Robert Allen Stanford, KCN (born March 24, 1950) is a dick financier, dick philanthropist (or, as it is sometimes referred to, "philanthrodick"), ...

Allen Stanford Protests Jail Cell He Shares Wth 10 Other Inmates

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business


R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of directing a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, complained that his jail cell often lacks light and air conditi...

Allen Stanford Aided By Florida Regulators In Alleged Scam

miamiherald.com | By LUCY KOMISAR, MICHAEL SALLAH and ROB BARRY | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business


Years before his banking empire was shut down in a massive fraud case, Allen Stanford swept into Florida with a bold plan: entice Latin Americans to p...

Stanford's Bail Revoked By Judge

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


HOUSTON — A federal judge on Tuesday revoked the bond of Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, ordering he be kept in jail while he awaits trial on...

Allen Stanford May Be Freed On Bond: Judge

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business


HOUSTON — A federal magistrate judge set bond at $500,000 Thursday for Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford but delayed her order until Friday to...

Biggest Villains Of The Financial Crisis (POLL)

Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


As we all know by now, the financial crisis was caused by a series of systematic failures -- botched regulations, corporations that grew to be too big...

Allen Stanford Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud

Ap | Juan A. Lozano | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion as part of a massiv...

Allen Stanford In Chains As He Arrives In Court (VIDEO)

Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


HOUSTON (AP) -- Billionaire R. Allen Stanford arrived at a federal courthouse Thursday wearing handcuffs and leg chains as he faces charges of fraud a...

New Documents on Accused Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford: Did Bush's Justice Dept. Take "Appropriate Investigative Steps"?

Aram Roston | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business


Aram Roston

An Antiguan American lawyer has given me documents that laid out allegations to the Justice Department five years ago that Stanford was corrupting Antigua officials, and potentially violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Allen Stanford Jailed On Fraud Charges

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 07.21.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Brash Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has been jailed on charges his international banking empire was really just a Ponzi schem...

Allen Stanford, Alleged Ponzi Schemer, Indicted (VIDEO)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, whose sprawling banking empire collapsed this year, was indicted Friday for what prosecutors call a ...

Allen Stanford Surrenders To Authorities After Warrant Issued For HIs Arrest

AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business


DALLAS (AP) -- The attorney for R. Allen Stanford, chairman of troubled Stanford Financial Group, says the Texas billionaire has surrendered to FBI ag...

Allen Stanford, Alleged Ponzi Schemer, Auctions Some Assets

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sal Lazzara needed some new office furniture. Thanks to a flamboyant financier's downfall, he found a matching set with ...

Allen Stanford, US Drug Informant? Evidence Emerges

BBC News | John Sweeney | Posted 06.10.2009 | Business


Evidence has emerged that the Texan who bankrolled English cricket may have been a US government informer. Sir Allen Stanford, who is accused of bank...

The Fake Out: Imitating Regulation in the Era of Madoff

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

The Senate is capable of making activity illegal that the general public already assumes is illegal.

Reuters Tours Allen Stanford's Lavish Headquarters

Reuters | Chris Baltimore | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business


If Texas billionaire Allen Stanford ever wanted to make a low-profile departure from the inner sanctum within his lavish Houston headquarters, there w...

Ponzi Block Party

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business


Norb Vonnegut

The home of the the $23 million, alleged fraudster is less than one minute's walk from the Florida estate of Bernie Madoff.