Saturday, January 08, 2011

Will R. Allen Stanford make it out of jail, alive? by gimleteye

I don't think so. One of the most important unwritten stories-- and there are many of them-- related to the housing boom and collapse in Florida, concerns the political connections that allowed rogue banker, now jailed financier R. Allen Stanford to obtain a license to practice offshore banking from Miami.

Eyeonmiami elaborated on the political connections-- to the Bush family-- that were disregarded in the otherwise excellent expose by The Miami Herald (and archived on this blog)in July 2009.

While federal investigators sift through a mountain of evidence related to the $7 billion fraud, Stanford wilts in prison. The latest news is that his trial has been delayed indefinitely until he detoxifies from "medications".

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but the Stanford case is an exception. (Law enforcement readers of EOM: type "Stanford" in the search button and read the 2009/2010 posts). The loop has never tracked back, at least not in published reports, to the state banking officials under Governor Jeb! Bush. One assumes that would happen in depositions or through disclosures by Stanford himself who counted the Bush family among good friends. His office was filled with photos taken with both the former president and governor.

Stanford, in court pleadings, is alternately described as "lucid" and clear-thinking and "drugged" and incapacitated. The open question is how many people want Stanford dead and gone from prying eyes.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gee! Isn't it amazing how every crook in this community seems to be friends with Jeb and George Bush? Birds of a feather...

Anonymous said...

Is Stanford being treated for depression or anxiety? Do you think some poor slob who is sitting in jail gets that kind of treatment? I doubt it. What about all the anxious people who are penniless now? Would it be unreasonable for me to say that maybe he ought to be allowed to have frayed nerves? Well, maybe until the courts are done with him - yes. I just have to wonder how it goes for everyone else that is locked up.

Anonymous said...

A Blue Dog Democrat, a conservative Dem, US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has been shot in Arizona and maybe killed today. Welcome to the new politics of the United States.

The time when the system was capable of tracing injustice or criminality back to the ruling class is over. The crimes of the Bush Family will have to wait for a fundamentally changed USA.

David said...

The shootings today are tragic and I mourn for all the injured and dead, particularly the nine year old girl. A federal judge was also killed in this senseless attack.

Here's the rub. I am a "Pub". I love Fox News, but I must say I was appalled by the immediate, urgent, pressing need by Fox, CNN, CNBC, et al; to portray the writings of the assassin on the monetary system as fodder for the psychiatric ward.

While the actions he took against innocent people in Tucson are undefensible and inexcusable and do indicate some type of mental illness, things have gotten to a point in this country where smart people who really care but may not be traveling with a full seabag, come to a point of such despair (as this poor kid obviously did), that assassinating political figures begins to sound like a good idea.

While I don't advocate the use of violence, our founding fathers realized that when government becomes excessively onerous and oppressive; and begins to rule instead of being ruled, the Second Amendment was necessary to ensure the people had a last recourse to shed the yoke that was enslaving them. Maybe we're not to that point yet, but we're awfully close. Politicians should take note of what happened today and conduct themselves accordingly.

When folks that aren't "crazy" decide it time to take up arms to defend our democratic republic from the very people elected to protect same, there's going to be hell to pay. And neither side will win. I pray that day never comes.

Oh, by the way, George W. Bush was spotted on the grassy knoll across the street from the Safeway with an umbrella and a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle talking to Jack Ruby, Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, and E. Howard Hunt.

Anonymous said...

Eye On Miami has done a great job of exposing many of the steps con-man Allen Stanford took to open his fake business and somehow get permission to move money offshore.
Great job.

By the way, see the movie called Casino Jack. Just out. About a former Greenberg Traurig lobbyist.

Kelley said...

Your paranoia is ridiculous. Why don't you instead speculate whether Scott Rothstein will get out of jail alive because of his connections with Alex Sink and Charlie Crist?

Anonymous said...

The question is how was Allen Stanford a con-man from a one stop light town in Texas able to hire Greenberg Traurig attorneys and lobbyists and get permission to do off-shore banking with seemingly no scrutiny?