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Allen Stanford Guilty on 13 Fraud Counts; Ponzi-Palooza?

By Barry Barnett on March 6, 2012

The NYT reports that a federal jury in Houston today convicted high-yield CD king Allen Stanford on all but one of the 14 fraud counts against him.

Stanford grew up in Mexia, Texas, and got a finance degree from Baylor in Waco. In the 1980s, he moved to Montserrat and later Antigua.

His Stanford Financial…

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Working for a Ponzi Scheme Doesn’t Pay, Fifth Circuit Affirms

By Barry Barnett on July 25, 2011

The wages of sin is death. What wages do you get from a Ponzi scheme?

The kind you can't access any more.

People who worked at Stanford Group Company found that out the hard way. Their employer, we now learn, paid them with proceeds of a Ponzi scheme. The Fifth Circuit held that funds they…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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