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Stanford Loses Cozy Caribbean Domain

Mexican drug lord laundered money there

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 21, 2009 1:11 PM CST

(Newser) – R. Allen Stanford is an institution in Antigua—so much so that some residents call the Caribbean island “Stanford Land”—and now the country is reeling from the SEC fraud case against him. The country has seized Stanford’s bank, but it’s... Read full story »

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