HOUSTON: A federal judge in Dallas said he will consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to look through R. Allen Stanford's personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billion fraud.
The Texas financier asked U.S. District Judge David Godbey more than two months ago to order the court-appointed receiver in the Securities and Exchange Commission civil case against him to place $10 million in an escrow account in the name of attorney Dick DeGuerin to cover fees and legal costs.
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