Allen Stanford: The Billionaire Built on Sand

He had a knighthood, a cricket tournament, and a Caribbean banking empire. Allen Stanford was one of the most celebrated financiers in the Americas until the SEC finally acted on warnings it had been receiving for over a decade, and the seven billion dollar fraud underneath it all was exposed. This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside Stanford Financial Group —the offshore Ponzi scheme that targeted Latin American savers and the regulatory failure that let it run for years. Subscribe for new episodes daily