Tag Allen Stanford

Regulators were told of Stanford fraud, ignored it

Not only did the SEC and other regulatory agencies ignore warnings as early as 2003 that Allen Stanford was running a Ponzi scheme, their primary reason why they couldn’t investigate him was bogus. They said the money was offshore and…

Allen Stanford doesn’t like prison

Indicted billionaire Allen Stanford, who was denied bail because he is a flight risk, is complaining through his lawyers that prison is just, well, icky. It’s hot, “oppressive”, and “intolerable” plus there’s no Internet or computers, and this is just…