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[TD]October 5, 2011 -- The all-but-forgotten Allen Stanford trial
The main stream media seems to have all-but-forgotten the trial of one-time multi-billionaire banker Allen Stanford, whose fraud trial in Dallas, Texas is being held in abeyance as Stanford has developed an alleged mental condition of "amnesia" on events prior to his being charged in 2009 with fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Before his exposure as the brains behind a $8 billion Ponzi scheme involving his Antigua-based bank, Stanford International Bank, Ltd., Stanford, who split his time between Houston, Antigua, St. Croix, and Miami, was a major donor to U.S. politicians. He was an honored guest at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver that nominated Barack Obama for president.
It was WMR's coverage of Stanford's financial empire and its ties to the CIA and drig money laundering that resulted in this editor's being lured to Alexandria, Virginia with promised additional information about Stanford's drug money laundering activities in Panama that led to an entrapment arrest in 2009 by the Alexandria police.
With the Stanford fraud case expanding to include "private banking" operations, including those of SG Private Banking (Suisse) SA, a subsidiary of the French banking giant Societé Générale, there have been some odd developments in the trial of the former billionaire banker who was beaten in prison in 2010 and later claimed that pain killers he took while recovering from the assault resulted in amnesia on events before his indictment in 2009. Stanford's auditor, Charles Hewitt, of the one-man band auditor operation of CAS Hewlett & Co. in London, died under suspicious circumstances in 2009.
Freedom of Information Act requests by the Houston Chronicle to the Texas Department of Banking, which issued Stanford a state-chartered trust in 2001, a deal that was agreed to in 2000 while George W. Bush was Texas Governor, and which was formalized after Rick Perry assumed the governorship, have been caught up in a bureaucratic morass, one that appears to be intentional. Stanford's main U.S. branches for his Stanford Financial Group's operations were located in Houston, Memphis, Miami, and, oddly, Tupelo, Mississippi.
Those who were defrauded by Stanford and his enterprises and who have sued the Ponzi scammer are alarmed by a recent e-mail received from U.S. Judge David Godbey, the Stanford trial judge, announcing a status conference at the Dallas federal court house on October 13. Many litigants have expressed their distrust for Godbey in the case.
The list of litigants and their suits against Stanford and associated defendants provides an insight into the complexity and far-reaching effects of the international fraud committed by Stanford and his associates:
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Bank Ltd et al
Adams et al v. Stanford Group Company et al
Pre-War Art, Inc. et al v. Stanford Coins & Bullion, Inc. et al
Trustmark National Bank v. HP Financial Services Venezuela, C.C.A. et al
Janvey v. Alguire et al
Troice et al v. Willis of Colorado, Inc. et al
Gonzalez et al v. Ralph S. Janvey et al
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London v. Ralph S Janvey
Allen v. Stanford Group Company et al
Ranni v. Willis of Colorado Inc et al
Janvey v. Reeves
Frank et al v. The Commonwealth of Antigua and Barbuda
Kyle v. Stanford International Bank Ltd. et al
Turk et al v. Pershing LLC
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London et al v. Stanford et al
In the Matter of the Tax Liabilities of John Does
Rotstain et al v. Trustmark National Bank et al
Queyrouze et al v. Bank of Antigua et al
MacArthur, et al v. Certain Underwriters/Names at Lloyd's of London, et al
Janvey v. Venger et a
Jackson et al v. Cox et al
Janvey v. Rodriguez Posada, et al
Janvey v. Gilbe Corp
Janvey v. Barnes et al
Janvey v. Buck's Bits Service, Inc.
Janvey v. Johnson
Janvey v. Barr
Rupert et al v. Winter
Janvey v. Interim Executive Management, Inc.
Janvey v. Indigo Trust
Janvey v. Fernandez et al
Janvey v. Stoelker
Janvey v. Wieselberg et al
Casanova et al v. Willis of Colorado Inc et al
Kneese et al v. Pershing, LLC
Janvey v. Tonarelli
Janvey v. Dillon Gage Inc. of Dallas et al
Janvey vs. Rodriguez-Tolentino et al
Janvey v. Stanford
Janvey v. Bogar et al
Janvey v. Alvarado
Janvey v. Stinson
Janvey et al v. Toms et al
Janvey et al v. The University of Miami
Janvey et al v. The Inter-American Economic Council
Janvey et al v. IMG Worldwide, Inc.
Janvey et al v. Miami Heat Limited Partnership et al
Ralph S Janvey, et al. v. PGA Tour Inc
Janvey et al v. Allen
Janvey et al v. Arizaga
Janvey et al v. Vingerhoedt et al
-N [unidentified case name and number]
Janvey et al v. Giusti et al
Janvey et al v. The Golf Channel, Inc.
Janvey et al v. ATP Tour Inc
Janvey et al v. Salgar
Janvey et al v. Romero
The Official Stanford Investors Committee v. Cort & Cort et al
Janvey et al v. Castaneda
Janvey et al v. Brown
Janvey et al v. Blackman
The Official Stanford Investors Committee v. American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc. et al
Mendez et al v. Pershing, LLC et al
The Official Stanford Investors Committee et al v. Breazeale Sachse & Wilson LLP et al Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London et al v. Tolentino et al
Robert Juan Dartez, LLC et al v. The United States of America
Janvey et al v. Chung Design, LLC.
Janvey v. Insideout Sports & Entertainment
Janvey et al v. Rocketball, Ltd. et al
Trustmark National Bank v. Carribean Sun Airlines, Inc. et al
Official Stanford Investors Committee v. Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, LLP.
Wilkinson et al v. BDO USA, LLP et al
Janvey v. Libyan Investment Authority et al
Janvey v. Stanford
Janvey v. Rincon
Janvey et al v. Texas A&M University
Rishmague et al v. Winter et al
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Ralph S. Janvey of the Dallas law firm Krage & Janvey is the court-appointed recevier for Stanford's companies and assets.
It is noteworthy that among those involved as defendants in the Stanford fraud is the Libyan Investment Authority and other associated parties during the leadership of Muammar Qaddafi. Another defendant is the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities and other associated parties. Another defendant is the Inter-American Economic Council, a not-for-profit think tank, which, in 2005, hosted a congressional junket to the Caribbean. Among the participants were Representatives James Clyburn (D-SC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), then-Representative John Sweeney (R-NY), the late Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH), Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX), and then-Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL). The Inter-American Economic Council appears to have been nothing more than a tax-free contrivance that organized congressional junkets to the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization's website appears to have been disabled.
The American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities has been the principal fund-raising organization for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. On February 20, 2009, WMR reported: "In 2007, the 'Stanford St. Jude' golf Championship netted the Memphis children's hospital for cancer patients $1.76 million, its largest single donation in 34 years. in 2003, while investigating the suspicious death in Memphis of noted Harvard virologist Dr. Don Wiley, who served on the St. Jude advisory board, this editor was told by an auditor for the hospital that I should look into suspicious money flows into the hospital's financial network by suspicious donors in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries."
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20111004_3
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[TD]October 5, 2011 -- The all-but-forgotten Allen Stanford trial
The main stream media seems to have all-but-forgotten the trial of one-time multi-billionaire banker Allen Stanford, whose fraud trial in Dallas, Texas is being held in abeyance as Stanford has developed an alleged mental condition of "amnesia" on events prior to his being charged in 2009 with fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Before his exposure as the brains behind a $8 billion Ponzi scheme involving his Antigua-based bank, Stanford International Bank, Ltd., Stanford, who split his time between Houston, Antigua, St. Croix, and Miami, was a major donor to U.S. politicians. He was an honored guest at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver that nominated Barack Obama for president.
It was WMR's coverage of Stanford's financial empire and its ties to the CIA and drig money laundering that resulted in this editor's being lured to Alexandria, Virginia with promised additional information about Stanford's drug money laundering activities in Panama that led to an entrapment arrest in 2009 by the Alexandria police.
With the Stanford fraud case expanding to include "private banking" operations, including those of SG Private Banking (Suisse) SA, a subsidiary of the French banking giant Societé Générale, there have been some odd developments in the trial of the former billionaire banker who was beaten in prison in 2010 and later claimed that pain killers he took while recovering from the assault resulted in amnesia on events before his indictment in 2009. Stanford's auditor, Charles Hewitt, of the one-man band auditor operation of CAS Hewlett & Co. in London, died under suspicious circumstances in 2009.
Freedom of Information Act requests by the Houston Chronicle to the Texas Department of Banking, which issued Stanford a state-chartered trust in 2001, a deal that was agreed to in 2000 while George W. Bush was Texas Governor, and which was formalized after Rick Perry assumed the governorship, have been caught up in a bureaucratic morass, one that appears to be intentional. Stanford's main U.S. branches for his Stanford Financial Group's operations were located in Houston, Memphis, Miami, and, oddly, Tupelo, Mississippi.
Those who were defrauded by Stanford and his enterprises and who have sued the Ponzi scammer are alarmed by a recent e-mail received from U.S. Judge David Godbey, the Stanford trial judge, announcing a status conference at the Dallas federal court house on October 13. Many litigants have expressed their distrust for Godbey in the case.
The list of litigants and their suits against Stanford and associated defendants provides an insight into the complexity and far-reaching effects of the international fraud committed by Stanford and his associates:
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Bank Ltd et al
Adams et al v. Stanford Group Company et al
Pre-War Art, Inc. et al v. Stanford Coins & Bullion, Inc. et al
Trustmark National Bank v. HP Financial Services Venezuela, C.C.A. et al
Janvey v. Alguire et al
Troice et al v. Willis of Colorado, Inc. et al
Gonzalez et al v. Ralph S. Janvey et al
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London v. Ralph S Janvey
Allen v. Stanford Group Company et al
Ranni v. Willis of Colorado Inc et al
Janvey v. Reeves
Frank et al v. The Commonwealth of Antigua and Barbuda
Kyle v. Stanford International Bank Ltd. et al
Turk et al v. Pershing LLC
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London et al v. Stanford et al
In the Matter of the Tax Liabilities of John Does
Rotstain et al v. Trustmark National Bank et al
Queyrouze et al v. Bank of Antigua et al
MacArthur, et al v. Certain Underwriters/Names at Lloyd's of London, et al
Janvey v. Venger et a
Jackson et al v. Cox et al
Janvey v. Rodriguez Posada, et al
Janvey v. Gilbe Corp
Janvey v. Barnes et al
Janvey v. Buck's Bits Service, Inc.
Janvey v. Johnson
Janvey v. Barr
Rupert et al v. Winter
Janvey v. Interim Executive Management, Inc.
Janvey v. Indigo Trust
Janvey v. Fernandez et al
Janvey v. Stoelker
Janvey v. Wieselberg et al
Casanova et al v. Willis of Colorado Inc et al
Kneese et al v. Pershing, LLC
Janvey v. Tonarelli
Janvey v. Dillon Gage Inc. of Dallas et al
Janvey vs. Rodriguez-Tolentino et al
Janvey v. Stanford
Janvey v. Bogar et al
Janvey v. Alvarado
Janvey v. Stinson
Janvey et al v. Toms et al
Janvey et al v. The University of Miami
Janvey et al v. The Inter-American Economic Council
Janvey et al v. IMG Worldwide, Inc.
Janvey et al v. Miami Heat Limited Partnership et al
Ralph S Janvey, et al. v. PGA Tour Inc
Janvey et al v. Allen
Janvey et al v. Arizaga
Janvey et al v. Vingerhoedt et al
-N [unidentified case name and number]
Janvey et al v. Giusti et al
Janvey et al v. The Golf Channel, Inc.
Janvey et al v. ATP Tour Inc
Janvey et al v. Salgar
Janvey et al v. Romero
The Official Stanford Investors Committee v. Cort & Cort et al
Janvey et al v. Castaneda
Janvey et al v. Brown
Janvey et al v. Blackman
The Official Stanford Investors Committee v. American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc. et al
Mendez et al v. Pershing, LLC et al
The Official Stanford Investors Committee et al v. Breazeale Sachse & Wilson LLP et al Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London et al v. Tolentino et al
Robert Juan Dartez, LLC et al v. The United States of America
Janvey et al v. Chung Design, LLC.
Janvey v. Insideout Sports & Entertainment
Janvey et al v. Rocketball, Ltd. et al
Trustmark National Bank v. Carribean Sun Airlines, Inc. et al
Official Stanford Investors Committee v. Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, LLP.
Wilkinson et al v. BDO USA, LLP et al
Janvey v. Libyan Investment Authority et al
Janvey v. Stanford
Janvey v. Rincon
Janvey et al v. Texas A&M University
Rishmague et al v. Winter et al
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Ralph S. Janvey of the Dallas law firm Krage & Janvey is the court-appointed recevier for Stanford's companies and assets.
It is noteworthy that among those involved as defendants in the Stanford fraud is the Libyan Investment Authority and other associated parties during the leadership of Muammar Qaddafi. Another defendant is the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities and other associated parties. Another defendant is the Inter-American Economic Council, a not-for-profit think tank, which, in 2005, hosted a congressional junket to the Caribbean. Among the participants were Representatives James Clyburn (D-SC), Donald Payne (D-NJ), then-Representative John Sweeney (R-NY), the late Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH), Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX), and then-Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL). The Inter-American Economic Council appears to have been nothing more than a tax-free contrivance that organized congressional junkets to the Caribbean and Latin America. The organization's website appears to have been disabled.
The American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities has been the principal fund-raising organization for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. On February 20, 2009, WMR reported: "In 2007, the 'Stanford St. Jude' golf Championship netted the Memphis children's hospital for cancer patients $1.76 million, its largest single donation in 34 years. in 2003, while investigating the suspicious death in Memphis of noted Harvard virologist Dr. Don Wiley, who served on the St. Jude advisory board, this editor was told by an auditor for the hospital that I should look into suspicious money flows into the hospital's financial network by suspicious donors in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries."
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20111004_3
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