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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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.