"Stanford Coins & Bullion" - Sean Hannity: Allen Stanford Fan, Recommends Companies On Radio Show (AUDIO)
Arizona Coin Collector
The link below has streaming audio.
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FROM:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/sean-hannity-allen-stanfo_n_168024.html
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
Sean Hannity: Allen Stanford Fan, Recommends Companies On Radio Show (AUDIO)
Mention 'Sean Hannity' to Stanford Coins &
Bullion and get a free guidebook.
Yup, that's Stanford as in Stanford Financial
Group, or Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire
fugitive whose currently missing after being
charged Tuesday in connection with a
multi-billion-dollar fraud.
"Stanford Coins & Bullion, a member of the
Stanford Financial Group, their name as good
as gold," Hannity intones on advertisements
that regularly run on his radio show.
"I couldn't believe it when I heard the
advertisement," said Michael Levine, a regular
Hannity listener from Westchester County,
New York.
He called the radio station on Tuesday to inform
them Stanford had been implicated in what the
SEC termed "massive, ongoing" fraud. "They
told me they had no idea what I was talking
about," Levine told the Huffington Post.
Hannity spokesman Hosea Belcher did not return
a call for comment.
Stanford Coin & Bullion "is just a telemarketer
boiler room-type of company that calls during
dinner and tries to fleece you," said Jon
Nadler, a senior analyst at gold firm Kitco.com.
The SEC charged Stanford, who is the first
American to be knighted by the government of
Antigua, for fraud Tuesday. The Texas native has
spent millions in the Caribbean island, erecting
sports facilities and other community facilities.
He is charged with allegedly trying to bilk
50,000 clients out of $8 billion through a scheme
involving high-interest-rate CDs.
The cricket fanatic--he founded the Stanford Super
Series where Caribbean teams compete against the
British for a $20 million purse--has allegedly
been perpetrating the fraud for at least 13 years.
Stanford has also donated millions of dollars to
politicians, and counts as friends several
powerful Washington, D.C. powerbrokers, including
Tom DeLay, Chris Dodd and Colin Powell. He also
has an endorsement deal with golf superstar Vijay
Singh.
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Arizona Coin Collector
Below is an updated story. Some people are
not getting their gold coins.
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FROM:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6268220.html
Clients go to Stanford's offices to look for answers
By BRAD HEM
2009 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 17, 2009, 10:38PM
Soon after federal agents raided the Houston offices
of Stanford Financial Group on Tuesday morning,
some worried investors began showing up trying to
figure out what was going on and whether their money
was safe.
They were met by locked doors and a sign that
read: "We are temporarily closed. The company is
still in operation but under the management of a
receiver. For updated information please visit our
Web site at www.stanfordfinancialreceivership.com" .
Brett Zagone, who first invested with Stanford about
a year and a half ago, said she came to the office
after hearing about the raid and not being able to
reach her adviser at the firm by phone. Asked to
assess her worry about her investments, she responded,
"On a scale of 1 to 10? A million. Infinity."
Zagone declined to say how much she'd invested with
Stanford. After her mother's death in October, all
the money from her estate went to Stanford, Zagone
said.
After finding herself locked out of the offices
Tuesday, Zagone made a frustrated call.
"This is not good," she told the person on the
other end. "Just be prepared to kiss it goodbye."
Zagone said most of her money with Stanford was
in certificates of deposit, but she also had some
other investments with the company. She took money
out of the nose-diving stock market last year and
placed it with Stanford, she said.
She went to the firm's door Tuesday asking to speak
with someone and was told somebody would come
down. No one did.
Zagone said she was drawn to the company because
her brother once worked there.
"Everyone we ever talked to had nothing but good
things to say about them," said Zagone, who added
that she was trying to remain optimistic.
While Zagone navigated through a group of
reporters and photographers to walk to the front
door of the office at 5050 Westheimer just
outside the West Loop, a steady stream of luxury
vehicles rolled up to the blocked-off parking
garage around the corner. Several drivers
identified themselves as investors but declined
to talk to reporters. A few of them got out to
talk to security guards but most just slowed
down and then drove away after seeing the office
was closed.
One man, who declined to give his name, said
Stanford was holding gold coins for him. After <<
seeing news reports about the firm over the
weekend, the man said he went to Stanford's
office Monday and was reassured that
everything was OK. He left without his coins.
"I had them in my hands yesterday," he said
Tuesday. "I should have just taken them."
Another investor who visited the closed
offices, Houston real estate agent Kelly
DeHay, said he had no reservations about his
investments with Stanford until last week,
when he first read about the investigations.
DeHay said he is worried mostly about the
money he has in Stanford International Bank
in the Caribbean island nation of Antigua
and Barbuda. His most recent investment
with the firm was an 8.25 percent CD.
He said he visited his adviser when he
learned of the investigations Friday and
was told he could withdraw interest, but
his principal was locked in.
"He looked like a deer in the headlights,"
DeHay said of his broker at Stanford.
Agents entered the building at 5050
Westheimer and across the street at 5051
Westheimer at about 10 a.m., said Deray
Ferrier, a bartender at the nearby Kona
Grill.
Stanford employees gathered in the building
lobby for almost an hour before leaving
through a back door directly to a parking
garage. They refused interview requests.
Several of them ended up across the
street, ordering drinks from Ferrier.
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PC
"Arizona Coin Collector" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> The link below has streaming audio.
>
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> FROM:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/sean-hannity-allen-stanfo_n_168024.html
>
> FEBRUARY 19, 2008
>
> Sean Hannity: Allen Stanford Fan, Recommends Companies On Radio Show
> (AUDIO)
>
> Mention 'Sean Hannity' to Stanford Coins &
> Bullion and get a free guidebook.
>
Sorry, I just threw up.
> Yup, that's Stanford as in Stanford Financial
> Group, or Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire
> fugitive whose currently missing after being
> charged Tuesday in connection with a
> multi-billion-dollar fraud.
>
> "Stanford Coins & Bullion, a member of the
> Stanford Financial Group, their name as good
> as gold," Hannity intones on advertisements
> that regularly run on his radio show.
>
Great. I will take the fact that you are a professional liar into account
when making my decision.
Mr. Jaggers
> "Arizona Coin Collector" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> Hello
>>
>> The link below has streaming audio.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> FROM:
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/sean-hannity-allen-stanfo_n_168024.html
>>
>> FEBRUARY 19, 2008
>>
>> Sean Hannity: Allen Stanford Fan, Recommends Companies On Radio Show
>> (AUDIO)
>>
>> Mention 'Sean Hannity' to Stanford Coins &
>> Bullion and get a free guidebook.
>>
>
> Sorry, I just threw up.
I beat you to it.
James
Arizona Coin Collector
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
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> PC wrote:
Hello
It was not my intention to make you throw-up.
Sorry about that. I don't listen to Sean
Hannity, nor do I have any personal views
about him. I would guess that Mr. Jaggers,
and PC are not very big radio fans of
Sean Hannity.
I wonder if Sean Hannity would publicly
distance himself from both "Stanford Coins &
Bullion", and "Allen Stanford" on his radio
show after the story came out?
.
PC
>
> Hello
>
> It was not my intention to make you throw-up.
> Sorry about that. I don't listen to Sean
> Hannity, nor do I have any personal views
> about him. I would guess that Mr. Jaggers,
> and PC are not very big radio fans of
> Sean Hannity.
>
I just had to throw my $0.02 in there. I didn't mean for my comment to
reflect on you in any way.
> I wonder if Sean Hannity would publicly
> distance himself from both "Stanford Coins &
> Bullion", and "Allen Stanford" on his radio
> show after the story came out?
>
I would love to see someone hold his feet to the fire.
Mr. Jaggers
Speaking only for myself, I loathe all radio talkers, who are in business
solely to aggrandize themselves. They are a cancer on the body politic,
appealing to those who need validation of some kind. I salute you for not
being one of his listeners. There are so many greatly superior channels to
learn what's going on in the world, and what it all means.
> I wonder if Sean Hannity would publicly
> distance himself from both "Stanford Coins &
> Bullion", and "Allen Stanford" on his radio
> show after the story came out?
Don't count on it. His position would more likely be, "These are not the
droids you are looking for," and the bulk of his listeners would blindly
believe him. This is a man who preaches that fully half the population of
the United States are traitors.
James
Mr. Jaggers
He's made enough money at his craft to hire a proxy to undergo the ordeal in
his stead.
James
RWF
> Don't count on it. His position would more likely be, "These are not
> the droids you are looking for," and the bulk of his listeners would
> blindly believe him. This is a man who preaches that fully half the
> population of the United States are traitors.
Is that any worse than our AG calling the USA a nation of "cowards"
because they don't measure up to his lofty standards of racial dialogue?
Mr. Jaggers
I hope the AG likes the taste of shoe leather, because he has just put a
size fifteen wide wide in his mouth. And yes, it is worse. There's a
difference between calling a large number of Americans cowards and calling
them traitors for nothing worse than pulling the D lever once in a while.
James
RWF
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
I disagree.
The radio/tv rightwing loudmouths have no authority while the AG is the
nation's chief law enforcement officer.
I feared there would be this type of anti-white sentiment from Obama's
administration but didn't think it would happen so soon.
Guess the good Rev. Wright still has influence in the BO administration.
Looks like white Americans are in for a tough 4 years...
mazorj
"RWF" <R...@200902.invalid> wrote in message
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You obviously were in a coma when Americans of all color had a tough 8
years.
What do you think the new AG is going to do, authorize no-trial
arrests and water-boarding of white Americans?
Mr. Jaggers
That the AG's remark is damnable is not in question here. However, when the
choice comes down to being called a coward, little more than a schoolyard
"chicken" taunt, and a traitor, a crime punishable by death, for the way I
choose to exercise my Constitutional right to vote, I choose "coward"
magnitudes more readily. I do not suppose to speak for you, of course.
James
RWF
"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
You call the chief law enforcement officer's anti-white tirade a
schoolyard taunt?
The man should be impeached.
Mr. Jaggers
Yes, I do, and perhaps he should. Such verbiage is quite unbecoming of an
AG. But then, recent history has not seen that office filled with anything
approaching quality. Sad.
James
Arizona Coin Collector
Here is another updated story on Stanford Coins & Bullion
and Sean Hannity.
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FROM:
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14590/
Stanford: Biggest Texas scandal since Enron
Author: James Thompson
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 02/23/09 11:37
HOUSTON - With typical Texas flamboyance, Sir Robert
Allen Stanford built a financial empire which stretched
across Texas, through Mexico, the Caribbean islands
and into South America. He was charged by the SEC on
Feb. 17 with defrauding investors of upwards of $8
billion in the most shocking financial scandal in
Texas since the fall of Enron.
The centerpiece of his empire was a bank in Antigua,
which some think may have been a major drug money
laundering center for organized crime operations in
Latin America. A native of Mexia, Texas, he affected
a British accent and was knighted in Antigua. Some
of the countries involved in his financial operations
included Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru
and Venezuela.
Last week, after charges against him became public,
panicked investors flew their private jets to
Antigua, only to be turned away. Many Houston-area
charities supported by the Stanford empire, including
the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and St. Jude's
Children's Hospital in Memphis will not be receiving
their usual contributions due to the pending
investigations by multiple branches of the federal
government.
Right wing talk host Sean Hannity promoted Stanford
Coins & Bullion, a part of the Stanford Financial
Group, on advertisements which ran on his show by
stating "their name is as good as gold."
Many people stand to be hurt in this far reaching
scandal. Some people had invested their life savings
in the financial group because of its claims of
high rates of return.
Set in the context of the global financial
catastrophe, many people are questioning the wisdom
of a system in which people's individual retirement
funds can be swindled out of them by private
companies. They are also questioning a system which
makes the arts and health care dependent on charitable
contributions by these same unscrupulous individuals.
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PC
> Hello
>
> Here is another updated story on Stanford Coins & Bullion
> and Sean Hannity.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
The question in my mind, because I hold a special amount of contempt for
people like Sean Hannity, is will he be burned by this association? He
constantly made arguments against voting for our current President because
of some loose association with Rev.Wright, whom Obama did not endorse. Sean
Hannity clearly endorsed this slime bucket thief. Following Hannity's own
logic and convictions, Hannity should be shamed from ever broadcasting again
because of his association with professional thieves.
Mr. Jaggers
Hannity's core audience has willingly lost the ability to discriminate
between fact and fiction. They will not be fazed by any of this. Some of
the more peripheral parts of the audience may verbally distance themselves,
but they will continue to be part of his audience, as they know no other
port in the storm.
James
Peter
> "Arizona Coin Collector" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in messagenews:qrSdnaO-sZvKnj7U...@earthlink.com...> Hello
I'm a little unsure how that disqualifies him from reporting on
politicians.
Mr. Jaggers
It's not a matter of qualifications, it's a matter of freedom of speech. At
least as far back as Voltaire, the guiding paradigm of democracy has been "I
may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it." As much as I loathe radio talkers of all stripes, I cannot with
any clarity of conscience suggest that the talkers be taken off the air.
The market shall determine their value, just as it does for rare coins.
James
PC
"Peter" <w2...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>
Wait - all of a sudden reason and logic are supposed to be applied? Sorry -
you can not have it both ways.
Peter
>
> - Show quoted text -
I admit it; I'm missing something here. I won't defend the news
commentator. I merely wondered why someone who acts as scurrilous as
a politician should not comment on politicians. It sounds like a
marriage made in heaven.
Rather than applying reason or logic, it seemed more like a matter of,
"takes one to know one".
mazorj
I took the OP more in the spirit of irony and poetic
justice, not as a legal brief for suppression of the First
Amendment rights of a right-wingnut commentator.
Furthermore, refusing to run rip-off advertising is not a
violation of free speech, so unless Hannity drops the ads,
he is implicitly approving of such activity.