Investors: Stanford Verdict Won't Restore $7b Loss

By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press
Wed, 03/07/2012 - 8:20am

HOUSTON (AP) -- Investors taken in by Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford expressed relief and a sense of vindication after a federal jury convicted the jet-setting financier of swindling them out of more than $7 billion. But they said the verdict will never replace the loss of their life savings....

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