Justice Department Announces Charges Against Financier Allen Stanford

WASHINGTON - JUNE 19: (L to R) Eileen Mayer, Chief of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, Tim Johnson, U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Texas, Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, U.S. Dpeartment of Justice, Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Kevin Perkins, Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Unit, FBI; and Greg Campbell, Deputy Chief Inspector, U.S. Postal Inspection Service attend a news conference to discuss the indictment of financier Allen Stanford and others on June 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. Stanford is accused of running an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)