"Can't do time" = "Don't do crime"...Lawyer says PonziBoy Allen Stanford is a "depressed wreck"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jail Has Reduced Allen Stanford To A Depressed, Half-Blind, 'Wreck Of A Man,' Says Lawyer



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/allen-stanford-a-depresse_n_581610.html

HOUSTON — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's attorneys said Tuesday that jail has reduced their client to a "wreck of a man" who is severely depressed, forgets conversations, can no longer see out of one eye and believes he is "losing his mind."

The description of Stanford's mental and physical condition was contained in a motion filed by his attorneys asking a federal judge, for a third time, to grant the jailed financier a bond so he can be free while awaiting his trial. Stanford is due to go on trial in January on charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion as part of a massive Ponzi scheme.

The latest motion was prepared with the help of Harvard law professor and celebrity defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a consultant hired by Stanford.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston has denied two previous requests to grant Stanford a bond, agreeing with federal prosecutors that he is a serious flight risk. An appeals court has upheld Hittner's rulings.

Hittner did not rule on the merits of the motion. But late Tuesday, the judge removed the motion from the record for not following court rules, including being typed in 14 point font and being double spaced, meaning it will have to be resubmitted.

In the 36-page motion, Robert Bennett, one of Stanford's attorneys, described the financier as a healthy individual when he surrendered to authorities on June 18, 2009, the day he was indicted.

"Now, nearly one year in detention later, Mr. Stanford's incarceration has reduced him to a wreck of a man," Bennett wrote. "Mr. Stanford has experienced ... a precipitate, severe and ongoing deterioration of his mental and emotional health caused by the conditions of his confinement."

Bennett said Stanford can no longer see out of his right eye or feel anything on the right side of his face after he was beaten by an inmate last year.

[rocktivity]

1. Prision systems don't have physicians, psychiatrists, and counselors?

If he's that sick, get him medical help.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[RandomThoughts]

2. Someone should visit him and be nice to him.

If anyone can give him comfort that would be the best thing to do.

May God Bless him in his struggles, and may he find peace and comfort.

:loveya:

[sharesunited]

14. That is so nice. It takes courage to reach out to someone who is reviled.

However, let me take this moment to advocate that a useful length of rope and a sturdy overhanging beam or pipe should be offered to any person being held in detention or doing sentence time.

[customerserviceguy]

17. Maybe the correctional officers

can find him a 'friendly' roommate, who will do to him daily literally what he did to people figuratively hundreds of times a day.

[Webster Green]

18. That's a little barbaric, don't you think?

Rampant prison rape is a disgrace in this so-called "civilized" country.

The fact that people like you find it amusing is just disgusting.

I don't have sympathy for the guy getting locked up, but getting beaten and raped should not be part of his sentence. :thumbsdown:

[customerserviceguy]

21. He should have thought about it

while he was ripping people off. He could have easily avoided it by just acting only marginally dishonest, like the executives at Goldman Sachs.

That saying, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime," applies to all that's going to happen during that time.

[wolfgangmo]

28. I used to work in a maximum security prison.

Trust me when I say that you don't have to add rape to the list to find plenty to not like about being incarcerated.

Rape is wrong. You either agree with that statement or ... you condone it or .... you perpetrate it or hope to one day.

[wolfgangmo]

26. Not funny.

Prison rape is the only legislation passed during the Bush years that I agree with. Rape is wrong in any situation at any time.

If you think differently then I feel sorry for you and your karma.

[customerserviceguy]

34. The only "karma" this topic is about

is Stanford's, he's getting "instant karma", as John Lennon would have put it.

The guy is no better than Bernie Madoff, I really don't give a shit what happens to him, as long as he never breathes air again that didn't come through a prison ventilation system.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I believe he was "wreck of a man" before he went in

[snagglepuss]

37. BINGO. nt

[babylonsister]

4. "Says lawyer". Crime, time, sorry-limited sympathy. nt

[terrapinwelcher]

5. Boo Fricking Hoo

[Stephanie]

6. Why Stanford's in jail, from Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/allen-stanford200907

Pirate of the Caribbean

With little more than laserlike ambition and a brash Texas charm, Allen Stanford built an $8 billion Caribbean banking empire, exposed in February as perhaps the second-largest Ponzi scheme (after Madoff’s) in history. How did a bankrupt Waco health-club owner vault onto the Forbes Four Hundred, while the S.E.C., the F.B.I., and others mounted investigation after investigation of his shadowy business? From Stanford Financial’s Antiguan headquarters, the author follows Stanford’s improbable trail, complete with multiple families, a moated Miami mansion, and a passion for cricket.

By Bryan Burrough
July 2009

[Webster Green]

11. He looks a little different in the picture from that article.

[jotsy]

7. I contend he was more of a wreck at the top of his game.

And everyday he remains where he is serves to make him a better one still.

K and R

[Canuckistanian]

8. I see he's being defended by Alan "Torture could be justified" Dershowitz

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/03/cnna.Dershowitz/

[wolfgangmo]

30. Dershowitz is a whore.

He'll get on his knees for anyone with the fee.

[panader0]

9. "conditions of his confinement"= Jail

[WinkyDink]

10. He should rejoice that he lives not in 1789 France.

[hobbit709]

23. Or 1917 Russia

[WinkyDink]

36. That works, too!

[notadmblnd]

12. So they want t get him a new bail hearing, do they?

I say just give him a rope. Welcome to the world of the little people Lord Stanford.

[wolfgangmo]

31. And I say .... you're wrong.

Don't give him a rope.

First of all the guard get to clean that mess up. What did they ever do to you?

Second of all, for what he did he should be kept in prison for the rest of his life. And we should get to see the results of his larceny every now and again to remind other crooks what waits them.

A rope is too good for him.

[Rex]

13. Meanwhile, normal people throw shit in their 6 by 6 solitary confinement cells.

23 hours of staring at walls...yet Stanford get treated like a king? Should we let the baby out of jail? Just because he didn't sell crack or get caught smoking a joint? No he ruined untold lives so really I think he needs to rot in a hole in the ground.

[customerserviceguy]

15. He's suffering in prison?

Good. I just hope Bernie Madoff is suffering even worse. Tough shit.

[DemoTex]

16. Sir Allen

How is that title playing in the slammer, sir?

[malaise]

25. Hey

he was stripped of the title. :rofl:

[DemoTex]

39. Oh, man! What a travesty! That's what has him down in the dumps.

Poor dude. Now just a schmuck, like me.

:rofl:

[dkf]

19. Except if the crime is illegal immigration. You get a free pass for that.

[Hannah Bell]

20. tell that to all the people rotting in ICE prisons for the big "crime" of going where the work is.

[wolfgangmo]

32. Do you have ADD or are you obsessive compulsive.

Because you can't stay on point and you bring this up alot.

[madmom]

22. No sympathy here. He was never much of a "man" to start with.

[malaise]

24. I want to know who's paying for

the new celebrity lawyer, Dershowitz.

[hobbit709]

27. His repuke friends since they want him to keep his mouth shut

Especially Gov. Goodhair.

[malaise]

33. He had connections on both sides but ReTHUGS liked the trips

http://www.aishamusic.com/Judiciary_Report/how_r_allen_stanford_bribed_congress.htm

Even more than Bernie Madoff's tale, Allen Stanford's rise and fall is the story of the past decade in America, where greed mixed with cynical politics birthed a perfect storm for accused hucksters such as Stanford to bring the global economy to its knees. And as Stanford's story shows, the warning signs were there. They were simply ignored...

In 1999, a DEA investigation found that members of the vicious Juárez Cartel in Mexico had deposited more than $3 million in Stanford's bank to launder drug money. Stanford quickly surrendered the cartel's money to the DEA and earned praise from the agency for his quick action. But later that year, federal regulators placed Antigua on a blacklist of nations suspected of money laundering and fraud.

That same year, the Clinton administration introduced a bill to crack down on overseas banks favored by gambling rings, drug militias, and terrorists. Two months later, according to a study by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, Stanford hired a powerhouse lobbying group to fight the bill and began donating to both major parties. He handed out $208,000 to Republican campaign committees and $145,000 to Democrats that year. Among his biggest recipients were powerful Texas lawmakers, including House Democratic Caucus Chair Martin Frost. The bill, despite passing a House committee 31-1 with strong Treasury Department backing, was allowed to die in a Senate committee.

In 2002, as Congress took up a bill called the Financial Services Antifraud Network Act, which would have strengthened U.S. regulators, Stanford upped his lobbying. That year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics — a nonprofit group that monitors campaign money — Stanford's company gave $800,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — the vice chairman of which was Florida's own Sen. Bill Nelson. The senator received more of Stanford's cash than any other member of Congress, according to one study, with $45,900 donated to his campaign. Stanford, in fact, personally hosted a fundraising event for Nelson in Florida. The anti-money-laundering bill died in a Senate committee ...

In all, Stanford spent nearly $5 million lobbying Congress between 1999 and 2008 and dished out $2.4 million to federal candidates. He also sponsored dozens of free, "fact-finding" trips to Antigua and other Caribbean islands for politicians and their staffs on his fleet of jets. Records of the trips show that former Florida Rep. Katherine Harris took one such jaunt to Saint John's. Disgraced Texas Republican Tom DeLay flew 11 times on Stanford's jets, according to the Dallas Morning News..

[Arkansas Granny]

29. Hold on while I see if I can squeeze out a little sympathy for this guy. Nope,

can't do it. There's none there.

[SoCalDem]

35. Too bad the press does not report on the people he stole from

I bet more than a few of them are "depressed wrecks" too, after having their savings stolen from them..

[MrScorpio]

38. Poor fellah

I want some ice creme