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...Houston The Next Madoff? The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged billionaire R. Allen Stanford--head of the Antigua-based Stanford International Bank--with orchestrating an alleged $8 billion investment fraud, fabricating data and luring investors with dubiously high returns. Two other bank executives have also been accused of wrongdoing...
Other institutions such as Yale, Columbia, MIT and Stanford have already adopted “open courseware” programs that allow the general public free access to lecture notes, exams and videos online...
...outgoing enforcement chief, Linda Thomsen, said Stanford promised "improbable and unsubstantiated high interest rates" allegedly earned through a unique investment strategy. The bank purportedly achieved double-digit returns on its investments during the past 15 years...
...Stanford, and the close circle of family and friends with whom he runs his businesses, perpetrated a massive fraud based on false promises and fabricated historical return data to prey on investors," said Thomsen. "We are moving quickly and decisively in this enforcement action to stop this fraudulent conduct and preserve assets for investors...
Hedge-fund and Ponzi scams continue as frauds du jour. Not counting Stanford's alleged crime, seven new hedge-fund or Ponzi scams have been busted since Jan. 1, totaling some $814 million lost by more than 2,100 investors, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This does not include financial transgressions such as penny-stock swindles, insider trading, foreign bribery or general market manipulation...