Former Stanford girlfriend, Stoelker, ordered to pay $600K

Houston Business Journal by Olivia Pulsinelli, Web producer

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 11:25am CDT

Andrea Stoelker, the girlfriend of R. Allen Stanford and a former Stanford Financial Group executive, has been ordered to pay more than $600,000, court records show.

Documents show U.S. District Judge David Godbey issued the final judgment against Stoelker on Sept. 24, ruling on a complaint filed in 2010 in the U.S. District Court’s Northern District of Texas Dallas Division by Ralph Janvey, the court-appointed receiver for the Stanford International Bank Ltd.

According to the complaint, Stoelker, a Houston resident, was the former president of Stanford Financial Group Global Management LLC, the former president of Stanford 20/20 (Stanford’s cricket organization), and Stanford’s girlfriend. In June, Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He was found guilty of 13 counts of fraud in March.

According to the 2010 complaint, “revenue from the sale of fraudulent certificates of deposit generated substantially all of the income for the Stanford defendants and the many related Stanford entities,” and Janvey identified more than $560,000 in transfers of CD proceeds from Stanford parties to Stoelker.

“Each payment of CD proceeds from the Stanford parties to Stoelker was made with actual intent to hinder, delay, and defraud the Stanford parties’ creditors,” Janvey asserted in the complaint.

In the Sept. 24 judgment, court documents show Godbey ordered Stoelker to pay $568,206 in voidable fraudulent transfers she received, $35,748 in attorneys’ fees and $406 in costs and expenses, as well as prejudgment interest at the rate of 6 percent per year, as calculated from the date of each respective transfer to Stoelker.