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Stanford was listed in Forbes magazine as the 605th richest person in the world in 2006 with $2.2 billion.

You gotta wonder if, at any point, Stanford thought about calling it a day and getting out before he got caught.

The way prosecutions are conducted in the USA, you gotta wonder if, at any point, Stanford engaged in crime at all. What he has is a "guilty" lapel badge pinned to him by the US judicial system, in the integrity of which I have little confidence.

Interesting point of view. Is there a reason you think him not guilty or do you just feel they didn't prove it sufficiently?

koan;1387004 wrote: Interesting point of view. Is there a reason you think him not guilty or do you just feel they didn't prove it sufficiently?


Neither, it's a comment on the aggressive opportunist posture of US enforcement agencies, not on Allen Stanford. I wasn't in court. The conditions in which he was held on remand would be an appalling disgrace to any civilized country though, and that seems to be commonplace there rather than exceptional.

There was a whistleblower, Leyla Wylder, back in 2003 who tried to break the case and no one took interest at the time.

It was a letter that should have woken the dead and, as it happened, couldn’t have been more on target. Wydler didn’t stop with the SEC either. She also sent copies to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) — now called FINRA — the trade group responsible for enforcing regulations throughout the industry, as well as various newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. No one responded. No one at all [at the time].
Stanford's Ponzi Scam: The System is Still Broken - Forbes