HOUSTON (Reuters) - Financier Allen Stanford was judged mentally fit to stand trial by a federal judge on Thursday, setting the stage for a trial next year in one of the biggest white-collar fraud cases since Bernard Madoff.
Stanford, 61, is accused of operating a $7-billion Ponzi scheme that bilked investors throughout the United States and Latin America.
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