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HEADLINE NEWS:
Texas Financier Stanford Reportedly Injured in Jail Fight
Miriam Rozen
Texas Lawyer. September 29, 2009
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EXCERPT: R. Allen Stanford, who faces federal criminal charges related to an alleged conspiracy to defraud investors, "has been returned to a lockup after being hospitalized for treatment of a concussion following a jail fight," […] Stanford's court-appointed attorney Kent Schaffer, a partner in Houston's Bires & Schaffer, told The Associated Press on Monday that his client was injured in a fight on Thursday with another inmate at the Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe, Texas, near Houston. […] Schaffer says his client has two black eyes and a broken nose. Schaffer says Stanford was returned to the lockup Sunday afternoon. He says he met with Stanford Monday and his client seems OK. "These kinds of problems happen in jail all the time," Schaffer says. Angela Dodd, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas, refers calls to the Marshals Service spokesman. Alfredo Perez, a deputy U.S. marshal and spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, confirms that on Sept. 24 around 10 a.m. Stanford was involved in "an altercation" that may have been a more physical fight. The circumstances are still being investigated, Perez says. Stanford was sent to a hospital but he did not sustain any "life-threatening injuries," Perez says, noting that the hospital kept Stanford longer than required to make sure, given his history of medical problems, that he went back to prison with "a clean bill of health." On Friday, a day after the fight, U.S. District Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas ordered that Stanford be transferred by the U.S. Marshals Service to the Federal Detention Center in downtown Houston no later than Thursday. Before the fight, on Sept. 21, Stanford had filed a sealed, ex parte motion seeking to be moved from the Corley Detention Facility to the downtown Houston facility pending his trial. |
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