Former tycoon awaits sentencing

Prosecutors in R. Allen Stanford’s trial for fraud want the judge to send the defendant to prison for 230 years. He’s been convicted on charges he ran a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than $7 billion. Defense attorneys are asking for a maximum of 44 months. Stanford’s been in jail since his arrest in 2009.



                  High Time

The Feds would send Al Stanford
To one of our penitentiaries
For a rather lengthy sentence
Of over a couple centuries.

But if they prove successful,
No need to cry and shed  tears;
With time served and good behavior,
He can get out in a hundred years.

 
©  2012  Jim Gordon