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Subject: Laura Pendergest-Holt

  • The Rise and Fall of the Stanford Financial Group

    Castles and corruption lead to criminal charges.

    April 9, 2009
  • Houston's Ponzi-riffic Allen Stanford Is Indicted

    Photo via wikimedia commonsStanford in his cricket daysAllen Stanford, the man who singlehandedly revived Houston's fading Enron reputation for corporate scams (here's our feature take on him) has finally been indicted.A Houston grand jury indicted him on 21 charges of charged with 21 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice.Stanford is expected to appear before a federal judge today, The New York Times reports (with a headline describing him as a

    June 19, 2009