Yes, we know it's just "former disgruntled employees" (shouldn't that be disgruntled former employees?) but doesn't it look a bit... suspicious to have such a strong Colombian and Venezuelan presence? Yes yes, it's only a "representative office," I know, I know. Just sayin' is all.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 11:46AM
I can't picture EP ridin' that train
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 11:52AM
Those who can read Spanish, or autotranslate it, are encouraged to try the blistering local account at the website for Venezuelan fraud, Venepiramides.com, English coverage in CaracasGringo, and other anti-Chavez sites that have suddenly turned on Sir Allen, the Knight of the Golden Helicopter:
But ever since Stanford landed at Lord's in a gold-plated helicopter, trailing a Perspex crate stuffed with $20 million, English sensibilities were offended and the Stanford name became synonymous not with “hard work, clear vision and value” but with tackiness.
Nor did the players come to terms with the notion of the one-off event for a million dollars a man. Kevin Pietersen, then captain, said that he could not wait for the week to end and there was widespread feeling among players and supporters that they were simply pawns in a rich man's game etc. (London Times yesterday....)
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:01PM
Another Suspicious Hedge Fund checkpoint:
Accountant Older Than Average Recently Checked Out: check
Sir Gallant Knight used to have a 72 year old accountant in his pay till last month, industriously burrowing with the help of a secretary or two in bikinis there in Antigua to check over his $8bn or $50 billion in managed money, but the strain was too much. The AARP accounting whiz has died, and the business has been shifting over to his family office in London. Sir Gallant thus can't take up Dalmady's challenge to "show him the money" right now.
The accountant's last words may well have been (Jimmy Durante imitation) "Dis is moral turpentine! It's a catastastroke!" But we'll know soon.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:08PM
EP loves her 80s movie references "Bright Lights, Big City" a little more obscure than the usual Trading Places or Wall St. references.
I imagine you're about 38...
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:17PM
@4 if you don't like 80s movies you are in the wrong place. I'm 26 and caught that one.
I imagine you have spent about 16 years in Dallas . . .
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:22PM
@5, @4 here...no just an observation from a fellow fan of that vintage whose cannon of films seems to mirror hers.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:22PM
Straight CIA (or like spook agency) money-laundering facility to fund covert operations in unfriendly countries, n'est pas? Doubt we'll ever get the truth on this one.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 12:23PM
Get the Noels on this one.
Posted by miami , Feb 13, 2009 12:41PM
Bolivian Marching Powder is a phrase that both pre and post-dates that book. People still use it.
Posted by Killjoy , Feb 13, 2009 12:46PM
Try the Lindo Coffee Brand.
Lindo Coffee has many clients.
Posted by Anal_yst , Feb 13, 2009 1:22PM
mmmm, lindo coffeee
Posted by Gordon Gekko , Feb 13, 2009 1:31PM
@10 Killjoy
I was rooting for the Latin Jack Ryan.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 1:32PM
@10 Just don't skim from them, they'll kill you and your family on your yacht.
Posted by guest , Feb 13, 2009 5:37PM
When will CIA assassinate Hugo the chimp already ?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Posted by guest , Feb 14, 2009 1:22AM
Colombia and Venezuela have bigger economies than Ecuador, yet Ecuador has 5 offices ?? riddle me that riddle
Posted by guest , Feb 14, 2009 4:40PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123457038088986331.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Oh oh! Stanford has suspended redemptions "for two months." Perhaps this was because poor "Shelley" Hewlett of Antigua's renowned CAS Hewlett auditors keeled over before the 2008 audit! And Shelley jr. is struggling to catch up over at the London office.
A LOT of sarcasm against the noble knight is to be found on the Venezuela fraud site
venepiramides.blogspot.com. Their reference to the wsj story above is titled "Crísis de Liquidez." I think I can translate that.
Posted by guest , Feb 14, 2009 6:02PM
By the way, I just got the print edition of WSJ weekend, and it claims that people are waiting to see if they get their money, not the two month suspension mentioned on the wesite. Which is authoritative?