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Jailed Texas billionaire hospitalized after fight

Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:12 PM EDT
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CONROE — A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says jailed Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford is being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez said Stanford was being treated Friday after a Thursday altercation at the private Joe Corley Detention Facility in Conroe about 40 miles north of Houston.

Perez says the 59-year-old's injuries aren't life threatening but declined to discuss details of the altercation. He says the incident is under investigation.

Stanford attorney Kent Schaffer says he hadn't talked with his client as of Friday evening but had been told the injuries aren't serious.

Stanford is charged with bilking investors of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of more than $7 billion.

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Paul Lucero

This is a setup to get him moved to a Hollywood prison where he will die but then numerous sighting of him will come from paraguay !!!

    Reply#1 - Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
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