In the small world that is South Florida banking, R. Allen Stanford, the billionaire banker alleged to have headed an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, found himself sharing a downtown Miami office building with the suspicious banking lawyer who had turned him away two decades earlier.
“He came to town referred by a prominent Texas law firm in the late ’80s, early ’90s,” said Bowman Brown, an international banking attorney with Shutts & Bowen. “He was referred to me initially and I met with him.”
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