As you may recall, Allen Stanford and the federal prosecutors who obtained his conviction for a massive Ponzi scheme differed by over two centuries on the proper length of Stanford’s sentence. To recap, prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge David Hittner to sentence Stanford to prison for 230 years. Stanford’s lawyers, on the other hand, quite optimistically asked the judge to impose a prison term of just 31 to 44 months for their client, meaning that he would immediately be a free man given that he has already served over three years in custody.
