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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 28 > ‘Blood oath’ ceremony sealed fraud operation, court is told

‘Blood oath’ ceremony sealed fraud operation, court is told

By Clifford Krauss / The Bulletin
August 28, 2009

HOUSTON " R. Allen Stanford's relationship with the chief regulator of his Antigua bank was closer than most.

At a meeting in 2003, they became blood brothers, cutting their wrists and mixing their blood in a "brotherhood ceremony" that Stanford's chief financial officer said....

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