Is Allen Stanford The 21st Centurys Jay Gatsby?
It looks like Allen Stanford, the billionaire Texan banker whose investment firm is being probed by the Feds, has a positively Gatsbyesque yearning to be accepted into high society. As we knew, Stanford calls himself “Sir” Allen Stanford, on account of a knighthood he was awarded by the former prime minister of Antigua, where his business is based. But it looks like maybe that wasn’t quite good enough for Stanford, since until recently he was claiming, falsely, that the knighthood was presented by the British Royal family. Check out this report (via Nexis), from last November in the Mail on Sunday of London: Texan-born billionaire Sir Allen Stanford’s corporate website claims that, after he became a citizen of the Commonwealth territory of Antigua, it appointed him a ‘Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of the Nation’. ‘He was presented [with] this honour by His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex,’ states the website. However, The Mail on Sunday has learned that
