BWAHAHAHAHA! Cornyn.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

So we already knew that Allen Stanford -- the Texas banker charged by the SEC today with running an $8 billion "fraud of shocking magnitude" -- had some pretty impressive political contacts with both parties.

But it looks like his relationship with one of his home-state senators, Republican John Cornyn, may have been especially cozy.

According to Cornyn's Senate disclosure reports -- posted on the site Legistorm.com, which tracks privately financed trips by members of Congress -- the Stanford Financial Group paid for the Texas senator and an unnamed companion to take a November 2004 trip down to Antigua and Barbuda, the tiny Carribean nation where the company has its headquarters.

The three day trip is described by Legistorm as a "financial services industry fact-finding mission hosted by constituent company with substantial operations on site."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/cornyn_took_caribbean_junket_on_stanfords_dime.php

If this was any finer a story, I would have to engage in hours of frantic self-pollution. ;-)

[babylonsister]

1. I so hope the whole truth comes out about this. From what I hear,

Stanford is MIA.

[opihimoimoi]

2. OH OH....a Monica Story??? Monkey Business??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Rice

[AndyA]

3. I'll bet there's a lot more we don't know about this.

How many more Stanford's and Madoff's are there?

I've also heard that Stanford is MIA, no doubt somewhere with a bank account stuffed to the gills with cash. Perhaps he's lying low in some country that won't extradite to the U.S.

Maybe he and his bud Kenny Lay are having a good laugh at all of us now. I don't know how people like this can sleep at night. At least the ones who commit suicide still have feelings. And that's about the nicest thing I can think of to say about them at this point.

(Edit to correct spelling and sentence structure. Sometimes it's scary to come back and read something you've previously written! :eyes: )

[malaise]

4. Here's a nice link for tonight

Antigua talk radio

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?membername=observerradio&site=pro&tm=2093

They're reading from HuffPo. now

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[malaise]

5. There's this too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5076462&mesg_id=5076462

[sufrommich]

6. That "unknown companion" is just shouting

"verrrrry in-ter-es-ting.