6. Hurricane Season
The net begins to close in on Stanford, but unsurprisingly all is not what it seems.
Sport's Strangest Crimes · BBC Radio 5 Live
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Show Notes
Just a few months after the $20 million cricket match in Antigua, a perfect storm is brewing around Allen Stanford and his sprawling business empire.
There are 'red flags' everywhere and with the financial world imploding the authorities in America are under pressure to act quickly before it's too late. But taking on a billionaire is not for the faint-hearted, there can be consequences. Both the FBI and SEC are nervous about their next steps, but fearing he could be another Bernie Madoff and is running a Ponzi scheme they hatch a plan to try and find out the truth about Sir Robert Allen Stanford.
It's a race against time with billions of dollars and people's livelihoods at stake.