{"id":22727,"date":"2012-06-17T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2012-06-17T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:57:51","slug":"stanford-sentenced-in-caribbean-based-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/stanford-sentenced-in-caribbean-based-ponzi-scheme","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Sentenced In Caribbean-Based Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22728\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22728\" title=\"stanford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stanford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stanford.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/stanford-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R. Allen Stanford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jaime Escalona was fleeced so thoroughly by the financier R. Allen Stanford that he could no longer pay for his grandson\u2019s autism treatments, he said in a steady voice in court on Thursday, before turning to the defendant and declaring, \u201cYou are a dirty, rotten scoundrel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stanford took the insult in stride, and stared right back.<\/p>\n<p>Then Angela Shaw Kogutt, who said three generations of her family had lost over $4 million because of Mr. Stanford\u2019s \u201cfinancial terrorism,\u201d asked all the scores of victims in the federal court gallery to stand before Mr. Stanford to show him their faces of misery. Judge David Hittner of the Federal District Court told Mr. Stanford he was under no obligation to look, but he swiveled his chair toward the victims anyway without a flinch or sign of caring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison without parole for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme run through a Caribbean bank. The cold-hearted &#8220;financial terrorist&#8221; showed no sympathy for his victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[151,31,98],"class_list":["post-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}