Stanford's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, argued that his client could have fled before he was indicted and had even attempted to surrender voluntarily before his indictment. He claimed his client was penniless.
But Assistant US Attorney Gregg Costa successfully put into evidence:
*** testimony from a pilot who flew Stanford to Libya and Switzerland before government officials raided his Houston offices;
*** evidence that a friend of Stanford's daughter gave him $36,000 for an apartment rental in Houston, where Stanford had no real ties;
*** an auditor's claim that $100 million had been withdrawn from a Swiss bank account controlled by Stanford;
*** and that a friend recently brought an Antigua passport to Houston for Stanford.
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