HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of a $7 billion fraud, is still hospitalized and will undergo tests to determine if there is blockage of veins or arteries in his heart, his lawyer's office, said on Monday. Stanford, 59, was hospitalized in Conroe, Texas with a racing pulse on Thursday, hours before he was due in federal ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Accused swindler Allen Stanford was hospitalized with a high pulse rate on Thursday, hours before he was to appear at a court hearing where his former top aide entered the first guilty plea in a $7 billion fraud case. James Davis, 60, pleaded guilty to three felony counts as part of a plea deal with federal investigators. Davis ...

The former finance chief for jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford said his boss created a business empire where blood oaths were taken to secure loyalty, bribes were paid from a secret Swiss bank account and investor profits were more fiction than financial genius. New details about how ...