ST. JOHN'S, Antigua -- Disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda,...
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...
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...
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission had been actively investigating the banking business of billionaire R. Allen Stanford for mo...
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Viewing Wagner's opera as a non-musician and member of the audience, it speaks to me about the leitmotif of avarice and Bernard Madoff.
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...
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...
Aram Roston | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business
Allen Stanford, the financier who has been accused of an $8 billion ponzi scheme by the Securities and Exchange Commission. After remaining mum on t...
New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
HOUSTON -- As R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of masterminding an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, tells his side of the story, regulators ar...
AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
DALLAS — The chief financial officer of the troubled companies owned by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has promised full cooperation with f...
Huffington Post | Carrie Crotty | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
Yesterday, Antiguans voted in one of their most contentious elections in years. Allen Stanford, who allegedly ran an $8 billion ponzi scheme, was clos...
Bad Idea Magazine | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
Following on from the Bernard Madoff-branded emergency kit and sweater, eBay is now providing the opportunity to deck your bathroom out with a financi...
Reuters | Anna Driver | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business
U.S. securities regulators on Friday accused Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, his college roommate and three of their companies of carrying out a "ma...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
When I was at Harvard Business School, we inherited a joke that has passed from class to class. It goes something like this: the whole HBS education ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media
Rolling up Stanford Financial would have been an excellent, and subtle way of noting that times have changed. As usual though, reality isn't that simple.
businessinsider.com | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
George W. Bush spoke at a reception for fraudster Allen Stanford in 2006. He was just one of many politicians in Stanford's web, but it makes sense th...
Duncan Quirk | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Senators and Representatives are elected to represent their constituents, so why should Madoff and Stanford and others be allowed to donate to campaigns for which they are not constituents?
AP | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees outfielders Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady are among the investors whose accounts were caught in a freeze by the government ...
Clusterstock | Jay Yarow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
The busted financier Sir Allen Stanford had a net worth over $2 billion according to a Florida paternity lawsuit and a Texas divorce lawsuit. How did...
David Bourgeois | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
The saps were lured into this Ponzi scheme with the elixir of unrealistic riches; their thirst for off-the-charts financial gains blinded them to the obvious scam going on right under their noses.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business
R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire who has been on the lam since the SEC charged him for fraud on Tuesday, has been found in Virginia. MSNBC is...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business
CNBC is reporting that ATP, the pro tennis organization, is canceling its deal with Stanford Financial Group, the business owned by Allen Stanford. He...
Houston Chronicle | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business