JURY: STANFORD GUILTY ON 13 OF 14 COUNTS Houston real estate and Ponzi scheme impresario R. Allen Stanford has been found guilty of 13 counts of fraud, obstruction of a federal investigation, and conspiracy to launder money. The charge he bought Super Bowl tickets for an Antigua securities regulator didn’t stick, though. [Houston Chronicle; previously on Swamplot]
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And here I thought his Super Bowl ticket hijinks was going to be his downfall.
First Anna Nicole Smith and now R. Allen Stanford.
Oh, the pain Mexia must be feeling for its native sons and daughters.
Houston, where Ponzi schemes come to die.. Good riddance.
cool.
I was a bit worried that his “prison beatings,” “drug dependency” and various illnesses would cause a hung jury.