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5th Circ. Tosses Stanford Ponzi Investors Claims Against SEI
Law360 (May 14, 2021, 9:00 PM EDT) Investors in Robert Allen Stanford s massive Ponzi scheme lost their bid to revive claims against investment processor SEI Investments Co. on Friday when the Fifth Circuit said it hadn t seen evidence that SEI had any control over the multibillion-dollar fraud.
The appellate panel affirmed a Louisiana federal judge s dismissal of $200 million in claims alleging that SEI, which started providing Stanford Trust Co. with investment-processing and reporting services in 1998, bore control-person liability for Stanford s scheme.
According to the Fifth Circuit panel, SEI had offered competent evidence that it had no control over Stanford, while the investors had yet to explain.