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Cricket moghul Stanford hospitalized after prison fight | Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges related to an alleged
seven billion dollar Ponzi scam, was taken to hospital after being injured in a prison fight with another inmate. "Stanford was being treated after an altercation
at the private Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe about 40 miles north of
Houston," The Daily Star quoted Deputy US Marshal Alfredo Perez, as saying. Perez
also said that Stanford suffered minor injuries, but declined to discuss details
of the altercation. He said that the incident was being investigated by the US
Marshals Service. Stanford has been accused in several fraud investigations, and
has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with fraud and
multiple violations of U.S. securities laws for alleged "massive ongoing fraud"
involving billions of dollars in certificates of deposits. He has also been accused
of running a Ponzi scheme targeting clients of his offshore bank in Antigua. Stanford
has been in a detention facility in Houston since his arrest in June. Earlier,
Stanford had spent five days in the hospital undergoing heart tests. |
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