US SUPREME COURT GRANTS PONZI SCHEMER ALLEN STANFORD ADDITIONAL TIME TO FILE HIS CERTIORARI PETITION

FROM THE - CHRONICLES of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA~~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

With the deadline, approaching in April, for convicted R Allen Stanford to file a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, the convicted Ponzi schemer applied for an extension of time, on February 24, 2106. 

The Court, speaking through Justice Thomas, granted his request; the time to file his Petition has been extended Until June 6, 2106. This news serves to answer those who have wondered whether Stanford, whose sentence is not up until the next century, will continue to seek relief. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have affirmed his conviction & lengthy sentence.

If you have not been following the Stanford cases, former Stanford Executives Gilbert T Lopez, and Mark J Kuhrt are both seeking to have their convictions reviewed by the high court. Their counsel has asserted that the trial judge erred on jury instructions; the Fifth Circuit affirmed the convictions, and 20-year sentences. 

The Supreme Court petitions were filed on the grounds of Conflict Certiorari, meaning that two or more of the Circuit Courts of Appeal have disagreed upon the same issue; it is a means of getting the Court to accept jurisdiction, to resolve the split between the courts. 

CANADA'S TD BANK ACCUSED OF FACILITATING MAJOR CARIBBEAN FINANCIAL CRIME SCHEMES

FROM THE - CHRONICLES of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA~

~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

                                                         

Toronto Dominion Bank, one of Canada's largest financial institutions, has been accused, by the victims of two of the Caribbean's most notorious financial crime scandals, of allowing major fraudsters to use the bank to commit massive fraud and money laundering offenses.

The bank has also been implicated in assisting Ponzi schemers to steal millions of dollars from investors in Florida.

First, a suit reportedly filed against TD Bank claims that it, by allowing billions of dollars to come unexamined into a correspondent account, the Bank effectively facilitated the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by R Allen Stanford, the convicted owner of Stanford International Bank, which operated in Antigua. it is alleged that the Bank, which earned lucrative fees for providing its services to Stanford, even after his operation came under suspicion and investigation, turned a blind eye to his dodgy operation. Stanford is serving a 110-year sentence in the United States, but no bank officer was ever indicted for the Bank's role in the fraud.

Allen Stanford

Second, the $450m Cayman Gang of Four scandal, where a group of Cayman Islands financial professionals fleeced elderly investors of their life savings, TD Bank was the financial institution of choice for Ryan Bateman, a Gang member, and questions have been asked, by investigators, why the bank funneled large amounts through Bateman's accounts, without asking questions. Additionally, TD Bank corporate clients in Canada had a role in the unauthorized transfer of client funds to the fraudsters.

Cayman Gang of Four; Bateman, Lamb, Buntain

Over in Florida, TD Bank paid out many millions to settle claims against it, for being the primary financial institution for the billion dollar attorney/Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's fraudulent operation, where investors were sold non-existent court settlements, ostensibly at a deep discount, to receive the full amounts later. A senior TD Bank executive was recently sentenced to two years in Federal Prison, for his role in that Ponzi scheme, on of the largest in the history of the State of Florida. Additionally, the bank had a multi-million dollar payout in a Dutch Ponzi scheme.

Scott Rothstein

Whether there are other, as yet unreported, Caribbean frauds and Ponzi schemes, where TD Bank was the principal financial institution handling the funds, is not known, but a pattern of what the victims claim is egregious misconduct, is beginning to emerge, where the attractive revenue received by the bank seems to have trumped diligent search and inquiry, on behalf of the bank's compliance department. It has cost TD Bank dearly, both in money, and reputation damage, and the total costs do not appear to be over yet.

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ALLEN STANFORD LOSES LAST CHANCE AT FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

FROM THE - CHRONICLES of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA~
~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

The Ponzi schemer, Allen Stanford, whose appeal to the Fifth Circuit, of his criminal conviction and sentence, was unsuccessful, has lost his final bid to have that Court hear his case. His Petition for a Rehearing En Banc, meaning by all the judges of the Court, was denied.

The Court treated his application as a Petition for Panel Hearing, and ruled that, since no member of the panel, or a judge in regular active service of the Court, had requested that the Court be polled, on the Rehearing En Banc, his petition was therefore denied.

Stanford has now exhausted his appeals as a matter of right; the only option left to him now is filing a petition for a Writ of Certiorari, to the United States Supreme Court, where the chances that the Court will hear his case are statistically very remote.  

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PONZI SCHEMER R ALLEN STANFORD WILL REPRESENT HIMSELF ON TRIAL

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA ~ Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock

 

 
FIFTH CIRCUIT ALLOWS STANFORD TO PROCEED PRO SE, ALLOWS HIM SIX MONTHS TO FILE BRIEF
 
Convicted Ponzi schemer extraordinaire, the former banker, R Allen Stanford, has been granted the right to represent himself in his Fifth Circuit appeal.

He asked that his court-appointed counsel be removed, and that he be allowed to proceed Pro Se; Stanford does not have any formal legal education.

The Court gave him six months, until March 18, 2014, to file his initial brief, so don't expect this appeal to be decided anytime soon.

 

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ALLEN STANFORD PONZI FRAUDSTER REPRESENTING HIMSELF & HAS "FOOL" FOR CLIENT

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA   ~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

 

 
ALLEN STANFORD'S APPEAL IS PAUSED WHILE HIS MOTION TO PROCEED PRO SE IS PENDING

 

Ponzi schemer/banker R. Allen Stanford's appeal of his criminal conviction is on hold; the Clerk of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has paused the briefing schedule until the Court rules upon Stanford's pro se motion to discharge his appointed counsel, and allow him to defend himself.

 

He has alleged ineffective assistance of counsel at the appellate level, even before his brief is filed; his attorney has complained to the Court that Stanford is seeking to deal with new issues that do not belong in an appeal.

 

 

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