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The brokerage industry's self-policing body must make reforms to protect investors after its inspections failed to uncover the massive Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff and the alleged fraud by R.

Allen Stanford, according to a special review.

A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford may be released from an undisclosed hospital either Sunday or Monday following his fight with another inmate.

A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate.

Financier R. Allen Stanford, who is awaiting trial on charges he orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme, spent a half-million dollars in a lobbying effort to gain U.S. approval for Cuba to participate in his international cricket tournament.

The lawyer appointed to unravel what the government calls a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme run by Texas businessman R. Allen Stanford is firing back at critics.

The Texas financier R. Allen Stanford , currently jailed on charges accusing him of bilking investors out of $7 billion, was taken to a hospital on Thursday morning.

R. Allen Stanford, currently jailed on charges accusing him of bilking investors out of $7 billion, was taken to a hospital after he was found to have a high pulse rate.

The attorney supposed to clean up what the government says was Texas businessman R. Allen Stanford's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme is managing to anger just about every party involved in the case.

A federal judge ruled Friday that a court-appointed receiver who took over companies run by Texas billionaire R.

Allen Stanford can recover only the interest — not the principal — on investments that federal prosecutors say fed a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

The Securities and Exchange Commission had been actively investigating the banking business of billionaire R.

Allen Stanford for more than three years before Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme came to light last December and has fulfilled its duty to pursue alleged wrongdoing by the financier, the agency's inspector general has found.