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re: Allen Stanford's Ponzi back in the news (Baton Rouge question)
Posted on 2/20/24 at 4:15 pm to Tomatocantender
Posted on 2/20/24 at 4:15 pm to Tomatocantender
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Kathy Mier still remembers the feeling she got in the pit of her stomach when she heard that federal agents had raided the downtown Baton Rouge offices of the Stanford Group. It was February 16, 2009, and Mier, a retired school teacher who lives with her husband, Louis, on a spacious tract just north of Zachary, was watching the local 10 p.m. news.
“He was already in bed when the story came on,” Mier says. “I ran to the bedroom and woke him up and said, ‘Louis, I think we’ve lost all our money with Stanford.’”
As it turned out, the Miers lost some $240,000 with the collapse of Stanford—her $70,000 retirement pension from the East Baton Rouge Parish School System and his $170,000 rollover IRA from Georgia-Pacific, where he’d worked for decades as a storeroom clerk. It didn’t wipe them out entirely but it represented a significant portion of their savings, money they need today more than ever. She is now 72; he is 80 and suffering from the advanced stages of Parkinson’s Disease.
Local news did some heartbreaking profiles of some of the victims.
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