February 24, 2021

Leroy King, the former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in obstructing the SEC’s investigation into the $7 billion Ponzi scheme perpetrated by R. Allen Stanford and the Stanford International Bank.  Stanford provided King with cash and luxury gifts, and in exchange King improperly denied his agency’s assistance to the SEC.  DOJ

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