"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
WSJ home page headline (no link yet) Stanford chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt has been arrested and charged with obstruction in SEC investigation. She’s been thought to be the one most likely to sing. This might well be meant to…
Doug Henwood Apparently the SEC has known that something was fishy with Stanford for years. The same with Madoff before him. Yet they did nothing. Was this corruption? Bribery? Self-censorship? Complacency? Probably all of them. But this is a society…
Wow. Our Congress is so wholly owned by special interests that a private individual with enough money can establish a Caucus on his behalf and then help select which Congressmen get to serve in it. Sort of like Bernie Madoff…
Newspaper veteran HG Helps tells of his days working for Stanford’s newspaper in Antigua. First off, no one in Antigua liked Stanford, something Helps originally thought odd. “Stanford go on like a he own Antigua. He want everything and the…
As the investigators dug deeper into Stanford’s operations, they faced roadblocks. They were told by bank employees that they didn’t have jurisdiction to access records of the bank and couldn’t see relevant documents, according to court records. Madoff also refused…