R. Allen Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

If federal prosecutors have their way, former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford could receive a prison sentence that spans two centuries for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades in one of theR. Allen Stanford's court-appointed receiver can't have a preliminary injunction freezing at least $50 million a Libyan sovereign wealth fund recovered during theFormer jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison

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