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Lawmakers rebuff pleas to return funds from alleged Ponzi schemer
By R. Jeffrey Smith
While Allen Stanford was flying high, he and his colleagues spent more than $10 million on campaign contributions and lobbying payments to curry favor in Washington. But all that money was diverted from investors in what authorities have called an elaborate Ponzi scheme, second only to Bernard Madoff's in U.S. history, according to court documents.
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