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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStanford gets 110 years for role in $7-billion swindle (AP)
Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7-billion swindleFrom the Associated Press
June 14, 2012, 10:20 a.m.
Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over 20 years in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.
U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down the sentence during a court hearing in which two people spoke on behalf of Stanford's investors about how his fraud had affected their lives.
Prosecutors had asked that Stanford be sentenced to 230 years in prison, the maximum sentence possible after a jury convicted the one-time billionaire in March on 13 of 14 fraud-related counts. Stanford's convictions on conspiracy, wire and mail fraud charges followed a seven-week trial.
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During Thursday's sentencing hearing, Stanford gave rambling statement to the court in which he denied he did anything wrong. Speaking for more than 40 minutes, Stanford said he was a scapegoat and blamed the federal government and a U.S. appointed receiver who took over his companies for tearing down his business empire and preventing his investors from getting any of their money back.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-stanford-gets-110-years-for-role-in-7b-swindle,0,1501895.story?track=rss
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7-billion swindle (AP) (Original Post)
pinto
Jun 2012
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msongs
(67,433 posts)1. one down and thousands more to go :-) nt
Initech
(100,097 posts)3. Yup - someday they will all get caught. And then we will be free.
People like Sandford and the Koch Bros and their billionaire criminal buddies are the only people in this world who can accurately be called terrorists - their disastrous economic policies have done far more damage to this country than Al Qaeda could ever dream of.