Showing posts with label Conroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conroe. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Sir Allen Stanford moved to another prison after a brawl
The renegade financier Sir Allen Stanford, awaiting trial in Texas on $7bn (£4.4bn) fraud charges, is being moved to a different jail by US authorities after he suffered two black eyes, a broken nose and concussion in a fracas with a fellow inmate. Stanford, who bankrolled Twenty20 cricket tournaments, had complained repeatedly about conditions at the Joe Corley Detention Centre, a private facility in the town of Conroe where he shared a cell with ten others. After representations by lawyers, a judge ordered authorities to move him to a federal detention centre in central Houston, saying this will make it easier for the former billionaire to meet with counsel in preparation for his trial Stanford's lawyer, Kent Schaffer, said the only way to communicate with Stanford had been to hold up documents to a window and shout through two-inch thick glass. Schaffer gave few details of the fight in which Stanford was injured, other than to say: "The reality is violence happens in any jail."
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Stanford in hospital with rapid heart beat
Allen Stanford, the accused swindler, was rushed to hospital from his prison cell in Texas at 5.50am, Dick DeGuerin, his lawyer, confirmed today.
The Texas-born financier and cricket impresario was taken to Conroe Regional Medical Center with a rapid heart rate of more than 300 beats a minute.
Mr Stanford, 59, faces charges, which he denies, of defrauding US investors out of $7 billion (£4.3 billion), and was recently denied bail on the ground that he represented a flight risk.
He has been sharing a cell with about ten inmates at a prison in Conroe, Texas, where he has complained of the "intolerable" conditions with temperatures reaching 38C (100F).
"They have almost non-existent medical care there. A fellow cellmate almost died with rapid heart beat several weeks ago," he said.
Mr DeGuerin was speaking on his way to a court hearing at 9am that was due to include Mr Stanford.
The lawyer is seeking to withdraw from the case because, among other reasons, he has yet to be paid.
"I don’t think the hearing can go ahead in Sir Allen’s absence," he said.
Meanwhile, James Davis, Mr Stanford's former finance director, pleaded guilty to fraud charges when he appeared in court today.
The Texas-born financier and cricket impresario was taken to Conroe Regional Medical Center with a rapid heart rate of more than 300 beats a minute.
Mr Stanford, 59, faces charges, which he denies, of defrauding US investors out of $7 billion (£4.3 billion), and was recently denied bail on the ground that he represented a flight risk.
He has been sharing a cell with about ten inmates at a prison in Conroe, Texas, where he has complained of the "intolerable" conditions with temperatures reaching 38C (100F).
"They have almost non-existent medical care there. A fellow cellmate almost died with rapid heart beat several weeks ago," he said.
Mr DeGuerin was speaking on his way to a court hearing at 9am that was due to include Mr Stanford.
The lawyer is seeking to withdraw from the case because, among other reasons, he has yet to be paid.
"I don’t think the hearing can go ahead in Sir Allen’s absence," he said.
Meanwhile, James Davis, Mr Stanford's former finance director, pleaded guilty to fraud charges when he appeared in court today.