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

AP | Juan A. Lozano | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

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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...

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SEC Acted Properly In Stanford Investigation: Watchdog

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission had been actively investigating the banking business of billionaire R. Allen Stanford for mo...

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Allen Stanford May Be Freed On Bond: Judge

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

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

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Allen Stanford Pleads Not Guilty To Fraud

Ap | Juan A. Lozano | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

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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...

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

Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

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

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Allen Stanford, Alleged Ponzi Schemer, Indicted (VIDEO)

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business

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

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Allen Stanford, Alleged Ponzi Schemer, Auctions Some Assets

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

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

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A Tax Lawyer Explains Tax Havens

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Banking, Taxes, Aig, Banking Secrecy, Tax Havens, Stanford Financial, Business News
Hale

The banking secrecy issue is incredibly important to the G-20 nations. What they need is a way to obtain compliance with their domestic anti-avoidance laws -- laws meant to prevent tax evasion.

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James Davis, Stanford CFO, Cooperating With Investigators

AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

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DALLAS — The chief financial officer of the troubled companies owned by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has promised full cooperation with f...

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Antiguan On Life After Allen Stanford

Huffington Post | Carrie Crotty | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business

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Yesterday, Antiguans voted in one of their most contentious elections in years. Allen Stanford, who allegedly ran an $8 billion ponzi scheme, was clos...

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Jason Linkins

Uncovered: Houston Chronicle Ran Alarming Stanford Expose In 2000

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media

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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.

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Stanford, Madoff Scandals Show Need for Campaign Finance Reform

Duncan Quirk | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Duncan Quirk

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?

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Allen Stanford's Yacht, Private Jet And Other Toys

Clusterstock | Jay Yarow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business

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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...

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The Poor Victims of "Sir" Robert Allen Stanford—Really?

David Bourgeois | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business

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David Bourgeois

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.

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Allen Stanford Found In Virginia

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business

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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...

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Allen Stanford Victims Speak Out

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business

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CBS' Harry Smith spoke with a Mark Tidwell, a former vice president at Stanford Financial, who is suing the company for wrongful termination. Tidwel...

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Into the Economic Abyss

AP | RACHEL BECK and ERIN McCLAM | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture _ a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, ...

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White House Works To Resurrect Economy

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Jolted by global recession fears, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates Tuesday, and President Bush and leaders of Congress jo...

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US Moves to Avert Economic Meltdown

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Jolted by global recession fears, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates Tuesday, and President Bush and leaders of Congress jo...

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