Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford

Twenty20 cricket is taking the world by storm. The hugely successful World Twenty20 has just been completed in South Africa and the Indian Premier League and club Champions League proposals have been announced. Allen Stanford, the Texan multi-billionaire, spotted the potential a few years ago ...

World's Top Filthy Rich Billionaires Who Are Now Broke. Business ... Allen Stanford is an American former financier and sponsor of professional sports. He was the ... Founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes was named as the youngest self-made female billionaire in the World by Forbes in 2015. (Image: ...

During that period not only did we, as a tourism dependent country suffer a significant downturn in the tourism numbers but we also had the crash of (Allen) Stanford (the US billionaire now serving life imprisonment in the United states for operating a Ponzi scheme).” Lovell, who is leading the UPP into a ...

In one corner is the same Digicel that eventually won its earlier fight with Cable & Wireless, in the other, its latest benefactor, the Antigua-based Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford. A barrage of punches and counter-punches has been thrown. There has been a lot of bobbing and weaving and some fancy ...

The winners of the Twenty20 Cup at the Rose Bowl on Saturday will join in Allen Stanford's winner-takes-all bonanza in Antigua in November, as county ... the possibility that the ECB will simply walk away from the proposal, and seek further money-making opportunities with their billionaire benefactor.

The ECB's chief executive, David Collier, has again insisted that despite Allen Stanford's contractual issues with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), the quadrangular tournament between the Stanford All-Stars and England will be going ahead next year. Last week Stanford, the Texan billionaire who ...

In his case, Hodges is seeking penalties he claims the IRS erroneously charged him for not reporting investments Hodges says were never made in the first place in the scheme masterminded by financier Allen Stanford. Allen was sentenced to 110 years in prison in 2012 for a $7 billion fraudulent operation ...

The relationship between sowing and reaping comes to mind strongly at news of the abrupt financial dematerialisation of Allen Stanford, and the humiliation ... Chairman Giles Clarke was an investment banker at CS First Boston; chief executive David Collier was a senior vice-president at American Airlines; ...

Robert Allen Stanford, principal of Stanford Financial Group, was convicted in 2012 on fraud and other charges stemming from a $7 billion Ponzi scheme ... Prosecutors said the now-former billionaire styled himself an international banker and fleeced investors in a scheme built around certificates of deposit ...

Allen Stanford built his own stadium, funded his own Twenty20 tournament, and signed a deal with the ECB for England to play a tournament with a cash prize of US$20 million. It was the largest prize ever offered to a ... By early 2009, things went downhill for the billionaire. The US Securities and Exchange ...

He has mentioned the ECB's brief relationship under Clarke with Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire, which ended in early 2009 when the latter was charged with fraud. The contrast between that scenario and the IPL, which was "going from strength to strength", is offered as a reason for the animus.

The monstrous Perspex box that Sir Allen Stanford wheeled onto the stage at Lord's five months ago is set to be sprung open (as if it had belonged to .... But if England find a future in the pocket of a Texas billionaire too abhorrent to contemplate, there is an alternative - one which, Clarke, an unashamed ...

Allen Stanford, the American billionaire who invested in cricket in the Caribbean, has been deemed unfit to stand trial on charges of running a $7 billion fraud and needs treatment for a drug addiction, a US judge has ruled. Stanford is facing charges of fraud, money laundering and obstruction but the court ...

It was a sight never seen before. A large, black helicopter landed on the Nursery Ground at Lord's carrying Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire, and assorted cricket 'legends'. In a panic to compensate their players for shunning the IPL, the ECB looked for another path to riches. This was their solution.

In the wake of its collapse, receiver Ralph Janvey sought to take back $88 million in loans that Colorado billionaire Gary Magness got out of R. Allen Stanford's infamous scheme. But a jury found in January that the transfers were made in good faith, meaning Magness and his companies could keep the ...

In his first interview since being indicted in 2009 for masterminding the second-largest Ponzi scheme in history, convicted US fraudster Allen Stanford has ... The former Houston banker was handed a 110-year sentence in March 2012 on fraud, conspiracy and obstruction charges after the Securities and ...

The case of Allen Stanford, a former billionaire who once allegedly sealed a deal with blood and is currently serving a 110-year federal prison sentence, could soon be back in the headlines. A federal judge ruled last month that investors could proceed with a lawsuit that alleges the Securities and ...

Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire who could be prepared to bankroll an English version of the Indian Premier League, said the IPL could soon be an Olympic sport. "With the right money, organisation and goals in place it can be an Olympic sport within a 10-year span," Stanford told Reuters. "We want to ...