Critical mass of public attention has been reached. A financial scandal uncovered by a blogger has led to charges of a massive financial scandal. It is yet  another financial scheme luring in investors with returns that actually were too good to be true. And yet another guy who has given a lot of money to Democrats.  The SEC accuses Stanford International Bank, run by billionaire R. Allen Stanford, of "massive, ongoing fraud" in selling $8 billion worth of certificates of deposit bearing unreasonable high interest rates.The bank is located in Antigua and has customers all over the Caribbean. US operations are in Houston, where US authorities have centered their probe. Alex Dalmadu, writing in the anti-Chavez dissident Venezuelan blog The Devils Excrement, uncovered suspicious information and spread it through the blogosphere. Regulators eventually caught on.  The dangerously unregulated internet (as certain American leftists regard it)...(Read Full Post)