Allen Stanford

Stanford Rages: "I Start To Get An Itch To Grab Somebody By The Throat"

Zachary Roth | April 20, 2009, 6:05PM

Allen Stanford has gone on a PR blitz in an effort to clear his name. But from the looks of it, he may already be regretting doing so.

The Texas billionaire, accused earlier this year by the SEC of orchestrating a "massvie ongoing fraud," sat down today with the New York Times, in the office of his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin. That interview was preceded by one with the Houston Chronicle.

The Times' writeup is worth excerpting at length:

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Karl Rove

J. Edgar Rove? Bush's Brain Claims He Kept Loyalty File On GOP Rep

Zachary Roth | April 10, 2009, 12:46PM

Did Karl Rove compile a "loyalty file" on former GOP congressman Tom Feeney? That's what Rove himself has reportedly claimed.

Politico reports on a chance encounter at Charlie Palmer's Steak last night between Bush's brain and Jason Roe, a former chief of staff to Feeney, the Florida congressman who was defeated for reelection last fall*.

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Allen Stanford

In Interview, Stanford Plays World's Smallest Violin

Zachary Roth | April 6, 2009, 3:34PM

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has given ABC News his first interview since being charged by the SEC with orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme. And he doesn't offer a sympathetic portrait.

Amid protestations of innocence -- "I would die and go to hell if it's a Ponzi scheme," and "if it was a Ponzi scheme, why are they finding billions and billions of dollars all over the place?" -- Stanford revealed he expects to be indicted by a federal grand jury in the next two weeks. (A senior official at the Justice Department told ABC News the case is "moving along rapidly.")

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Allen Stanford

Lawyer: Stanford Number 2 Helping To Probe Billionaire's Money Trail

Zachary Roth | April 6, 2009, 1:44PM

The walls around Allen Stanford appear to be closing in ever tighter.

David Finn, a lawyer for Jim Davis, the number 2 man at Stanford Financial, tells Bloomberg that Davis is helping investigators track Stanford's European assets, focusing on Swiss banks.

In addition to potentially helping to build a criminal case against Stanford, tracking the assets could help repay victims of Stanford's alleged fraud.

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