Judge interrupts jury to order acquittal of former DEA agent Tom Raffanello. Feb. 12, 2010 — -- The former head of the DEA's Miami office said he feels vindicated by his acquittal on federal ...

Why can’t a visionary huckster financial genius whose only aim is to help the little people lead better lives get a break? Cricket-loving Allen Stanford, Houston’s second-best scammer after Enron, had ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than ...

Financial history is filled with examples of fortunes disappearing overnight. While recessions and bad investments often explain such collapses, cases of billionaires ruined by Ponzi schemes and ...

U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas, who will decide if insurers holding directors' and officers' policies for Stanford Financial Group can refuse to pay legal fees for R. Allen Stanford, expressed ...

Allen Stanford, the man who singlehandedly revived Houston’s fading Enron reputation for corporate scams (here’s our feature take on him) has finally been indicted. A Houston grand jury indicted him ...

Democratic, Republican lawyers may face uphill fight over $1.6 million. Feb. 26, 2010 — -- Democratic and Republican lawyers are scrambling this week to figure out how to contend with an unusual ...

R. Allen Stanford filed a motion Tuesday seeking release from pretrial detention -- or dismissal of the indictment against him -- on the ground that his constitutional due process rights have been ...