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The rise and fall of Stanford 20/20

Stanford 20/20: The tournament that masked one of the largest investment frauds in history.

Stanford 20/20 was a Caribbean cricket tournament created by financier Allen Stanford that helped project the image of a powerful global banking empire while his company Stanford International Bank secretly operated a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Launched in Antigua in 2006, the competition transformed regional cricket overnight with unprecedented prize money, …

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