Back in 2004, Sir Allen Stanford’s company flew Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and an unidentified companion down to Antigua — home base for Stanford International Bank, which the SEC now says can’t account for $8 billion in holdings — for three days of “financial services industry fact-finding.”
Late Update: It only gets better. The House Caribbean Caucus (no, I didn’t know it existed either) takes an annual “fact-finding” trip down to the islands on Stanford’s planes. As recently as 2005, the caucus was chaired by now-disgraced Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), who did jail time in the Abramoff scandal, and included such other Abramoff luminaries as Reps. Tom Feeney (R-FL) and John Sweeney (R-NY).
Later Update: It appears Cornyn’s companion on the junket was identified back in 2006 as his wife.
