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Back Down to Earth

by David Kurtz
04.06.09 | 6:04 pm

With his assets, including his private planes, frozen by the SEC, Sir Allen Stanford discovers to his horror that TSA makes you take your shoes off to go through security when flying commercial. Oh, the indignity.

Zack Roth has more from ABC’s on-camera interview with Stanford.

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