"US authorities face questions over their investigation of Allen Stanford" by Andrew Clark (2-19-09

[bobthedrummer]

Guardian) This article was in today's Guardian Sport section, it has some angles not discussed by other media, and some interesting facts also overlooked in most coverage.

"The US authorities are facing questions over why they took so long to act against Allen Stanford's business empire amid accusations that a 'massive fraud' at his Antiqua-registered banking group dates back to the mid-1990s."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/feb/19/allen-stanford-cricket-antigua-bank

[aquart]

1. Golly gosh, I hope so.

[Skink]

2. The US doesn't usually look to hard at the black market peso exchange.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Sure some US agencies do-so does HMG. Why no action taken through the decades? n/t

[atreides1]

4. Same can be asked...

...about Madoff! Why was nothing done until now, and if McCain had won the election would we even be hearing about Stanford?

[bobthedrummer]

5. Yep, as well as the secrecy behind Paulsen/Bush's initial TARP n/t