Allen Stanford

The SEC imposed the ban on Dallas attorney Spencer Barasch because of his representation of financier R. Allen Stanford. Barasch agreed in January to pay $50,000 to head off potential charges that he improperly represented Stanford in front of ...  

Allen Stanford and Jon Corzine: two names that have come to occupy the same sullied space as Bernie Madoff. While the calamities that both Stanford and Corzine, head of the now-defunct MF Global, oversaw didn’t reach quite the staggering ...  

R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, will not get the new trial he requested this week, Bloomberg reported. On March 20, Stanford filed for a new trial with the Houston District Court, claiming he lacked ...  

(Reuters) - The financier Allen Stanford on Thursday lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a ...  

(Reuters) - The financier Allen Stanford on Thursday lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme. District Judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a new ...  

(Reuters) - The financier Allen Stanford on Thursday lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme. District Judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a new ...  

The financier Allen Stanford on Thursday lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme. District Judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a new trial in a ...  

(Reuters) - The financier Allen Stanford on Thursday lost his bid for a new trial, 16 days after being convicted for running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme. District Judge David Hittner in Houston turned down Stanford's request for a new trial in a ...  

Law360, New York (April 26, 2012, 10:59 PM ET) -- A group of investors in R. Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme asked a Texas federal court on Thursday to force the court-appointed receiver and the liquidators in Antigua to agree on a single process ...  

REUTERS - Allen Stanford, the financier convicted of running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme, has asked for a new trial, citing the media's use of Twitter in the courtroom and a lack of time to prepare his defense. Stanford, who turns 62 on ...  

R. Allen Stanford’s court appointed receiver asked a U.S. judge to increase the amount of money he and his team of professionals can get for marshaling and liquidating the financier’s assets. Dallas lawyer Ralph Janvey and his counsel made ...  

Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scheme petitioned the Fifth Circuit last week to reconsider its decision to revive four putative class actions over the fraud. In three motions for an en banc review filed April 2, the defendants in the actions said the ...  

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign plans to return campaign donations to alleged Ponzi-schemer Shervin Neman, but is keeping money from a bundler who helped convicted Ponzi-schemer R. Allen Stanford and other alleged financial ...  

TWO years before Carol Lovil’s life savings disappeared in R. Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme, she lost her husband, John, to cancer. While grieving, she asked her financial adviser at the Stanford Financial Group in Houston what she should do.  

Allen Stanford, the financier convicted of running an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme, has asked for a new trial, citing the media’s use of Twitter in the courtroom and a lack of time to prepare his defense. Stanford, who turns 62 on ...  

R. Allen Stanford stole $2 million from Angela Shaw of Dallas. And while the criminal justice system has acted — Stanford has been convicted on 13 counts of fraud by a Houston jury — Angela Shaw has yet to see a dime of the money she invested with ...  

R. Allen Stanford stole $2 million from Angela Shaw of Dallas. And while the criminal justice system has acted — Stanford has been convicted on 13 counts of fraud by a Houston jury — Angela Shaw has yet to see a dime of the money she invested with ...  

March 22 (Reuters) - * U.S. judge denies allen stanford bid for new trial -- court ruling (New York Equities Desk; tel: +1 646 223 6000) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters ...  

Allen Stanford, attorneys for the convicted con man claim in their request for a new trial filed this week. “The Houston community was saturated with publicity prejudicial to Stanford,” defense attorney Ali Fazel wrote in his 71-page request to U.S ...  

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- R. Allen Stanford is requesting a new trial because reporters were Tweeting in the courtroom during his trial. He also says he did not have enough time to prepare his defense. Stanford was convicted on 13 of 14 fraud counts earlier this month.  

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a request by convicted former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford for a new trial. Stanford's attorneys had argued the financier didn't get a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and because jurors might have seen ...  

The much-hyped Twenty20 cricket tournament sponsored by Allen Stanford featured the England team as they took on a Caribbean side, dubbed the Stanford Superstars, in a winner-takes-all $20million series in 2008. The plan was to run five such series ...  

But Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and Andy Carroll must represent the worst return on an investment of over £60 million this side of putting your money into a savings scheme operated by Sir Allen Stanford. Sergio Aguero has scored 24 goals for Manchester ...  

In a decision he could have just as easily tweeted, a federal judge yesterday denied a motion by convicted Ponzi swindler Allen Stanford for a new trial. Stanford claims he didn’t get a fair trial because Judge David Hittner allowed reporters covering ...  

Allen Stanford's Ponzi scheme could raise his fees to his customary $500 hourly rate minus a 20 percent discount, over protests from investors who say they haven't yet received a penny. U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey said receiver Ralph Janvey could ...  

Barbados, (West Indies), Apr 8: Even before the Indian Premier League changed the landscape of world cricket, shamed Texan financier, Allen Stanford threatened to do likewise with his own spendthrift Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean, but now he sits in ...  

Allen Stanford and alleged financial criminals from the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation. In an April 7 Facebook posting, Roberts touted the upcoming event. “This is the first visit to the territory by a DNC Chair in a number of ...  

Publication of the sale will be made in the Daily Journal, as well as The Houston Chronicle in Texas, where Allen Stanford founded his financial empire. Seth Worstell Auctioning Co., at 4200 Blaffer St., will handle the sale under the supervision of the ...  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

Publication of the sale will be made in the Daily Journal, as well as The Houston Chronicle in Texas, where Allen Stanford founded his financial empire. Seth Worstell Auctioning Co., at 4200 Blaffer St., will handle the sale under the supervision of the ...  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

Green, a consolidated appeal arising out of a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Allen Stanford. Roland v. Green (5th Cir. March 19, 2012). According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Stanford engaged in a fraudulent scheme to ...  

Accounting and securities frauds continue unabated and in increasing amounts. The recent conviction of financier R. Allen Stanford on 13 counts of fraud involving US$7-billion - including money laundering and obstructing investigators - is the most re-cent ...  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

Allen Stanford's bank from investigators, awaiting a potential Fifth Circuit en banc ruling over whether the class actions were precluded. U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia ordered that several putative class actions in the U.S. District Court for the ...  

Last Thursday, the Daily Caller revealed that Roberts’ clients include recently convicted $7 billion Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford and alleged financial criminals from the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation. Wasserman Schultz was ...  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

Since the 1970s it has mostly been this way. In a desperate attempt to appease the poorly paid, disenchanted players, the West Indies board got into bed with Allen Stanford, and we all know how that relationship ended. Soon afterwards the IPL came calling.  

Allen Stanford’s bank. In a brief filed Monday, receiver Ralph S. Janvey asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District Judge David Godbey’s February decision, saying the lack of such an injunction could hurt more than 20,000 Stanford victims because ...  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

In their request for a new trial, attorneys for Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud last month, argued that tweeting by reporters distracted jurors and created other risks. The federal judge denied the request without explanation.  

Allen Stanford's companies' assets, marking an important step in the road to getting money to investors swindled in Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme. In an order filed in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit against Antigua-based Stanford ...  

4. Allegation that the Department of Justice had kept the SEC at bay while Allen Stanford plied his trade and propped his Ponzi scheme. 5. A thorough and exhaustive review of Ms. Schapiro's and FINRA's relationship with Bernie Madoff as was overwhelmingly ...  

Investors defrauded in the R. Allen Stanford investment scheme could see a plan in place by year's end to begin recouping a fraction of their losses, an attorney for the court-appointed receiver said Monday. The federal judge overseeing the receivership on ...  

Allen Stanford's bank from investigators. U.S. District Judge David Hittner sent the suit back to state court after finding that the Fifth Circuit's decision in the consolidated Stanford case, Roland et al. v. Green et al., rendered the Securities ...  

Allen Stanford's $7.2 billion fraud scheme. According to BusinessWeek, District Judge David Godbey on Thursday described as "mind boggling" the continuing dispute between Dallas lawyer Ralph Janvey, whom Godbey appointed in February 2009 to collect and ...  

Law360, Los Angeles (May 10, 2012, 9:22 PM ET) -- R. Allen Stanford, who is awaiting sentencing for orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, was fit to stand trial despite his attorneys' claims that the court had relied on improper expert testimony in ...  

We want to leave." Elandia Group -- an international telecom corporation formerly financed by Ponzi-schemer Allen Stanford's bank -- did not respond to requests for comment. Pulele'iite Tufele, a Bluesky exec named in Lara's suit, says his ex-employee's ...  

As discussed here in late March, convicted fraudster Allen Stanford recently asked, unsuccessfully, for a new trial because the court "let reporters send Twitter messages from the courtroom, even while the judge and lawyers were talking outside ...  

The issue of adviser oversight has been simmering since the financial crisis and the frauds perpetrated by Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford. A SEC study last year, mandated by Dodd-Frank, recommended three ways to increase adviser examinations ...  

A United States (US) appeals court has ruled that aggrieved investors in Allen Stanford's Ponzi scheme can press state court class-action lawsuits seeking to recover losses in the US$7 billion scheme. The court on Monday reversed a lower-court ...  

The Rebels' coaches failed to sign four local players they coveted. Gorman's Shabazz Muhammad, the nation's top senior, chose UCLA after teammates Rosco Allen (Stanford) and Ben Carter (Oregon) also turned down offers from UNLV. Findlay Prep's ...  

Finra inspects brokerage firms roughly every two years. Those more-frequent inspections, however, didn't detect Allen Stanford or Bernard Madoff 's Ponzi schemes. "Finra clearly could have done better," its chief executive Richard Ketchum said ...  

A federal judge has denied a new trial request from former Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who was convicted of fraud in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Stanford's attorneys argued he didn't get a fair trial due to pretrial publicity and because ...  

Finra inspects brokerage firms roughly every two years. Those more-frequent inspections, however, didn't detect Allen Stanford or Bernard Madoff's Ponzi schemes. "Finra clearly could have done better," its chief executive Richard Ketchum said ...  

HOUSTON, Texas (CMC) — Allen Stanford's would-be 'Twitter defence' in a retrial of his fraud case was thrown out by the judge who had heard the original case and convicted the Texan tycoon of masterminding a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme through ...  

The recent conviction of financier R. Allen Stanford on 13 counts of fraud involving US$7-billion — including money laundering and obstructing investigators – is the most recent example, but not the last. The methods vary depending upon the ...  

recalling the experience of Caribbean Sun and Caribbean Star owned by fraud convict Allen Stanford. "As long as the island governments support LIAT in the way they have to - because LIAT is bringing tourists - this competition is doomed to ...  

HOUSTON--Furniture, printers and other items that used to belong to R. Allen Stanford went to the highest bidder today in northeast Houston. All the property was seized from Stanford’s old offices in the Galleria area. A jury convicted of ...  

The SEC said on Thursday that former Fort Worth enforcement director Spencer Barasch worked for the Stanford Group Co, the company led by convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, despite federal ethics rules that banned him from doing so.