A global empire of financial services companies. Billions of dollars in assets and deposits. The savings and livelihoods of tens of thousands of clients and employees in countries all over the world - gone in the blink of an eye.

Recognizing a "billion-dollar opportunity", in early 2009 a group of Texas lawyers hatched one of the most diabolical con jobs in U.S. history. Employing a "legal strategy" offered to them by two financially-desperate financial advisors, this historic 'grand theft' began with the U.S. Marshal's dramatic seizure of the Stanford Financial Group offices in Houston, Texas.
The 'breaking news' story broadcast live on CNN...billionaire financier Robert Allen Stanford, accused of running a massive fraud from his offshore, Stanford International Bank, and through his U. S. based broker-dealer, Stanford Group Company - a multi-billion dollar "Ponzi scheme".

It was all a Texas-sized lie.

With actual trial transcripts and other documentation, Brutal Takeover exposes the real Stanford story - how without a single customer loss or complaint, and without any legitimate authority, lawyers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice joined forces to manufacture and prosecute an imaginary case of "securities fraud". A headline-grabbing case that would serve to salvage the Madoff-damaged careers at the SEC, allow hundreds of Texas lawyers in private practice to siphon billions from the Stanford assets, be supported by the admittedly "selective and incomplete" findings and "Declarations" of a single accountant with an unlicensed CPA firm, and...immediately elevate an indisputably corrupt DOJ prosecutor (Gregg Costa) to a judge in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On March 6, 2012, after an intense propagandizing campaign vilifying him as a "Ponzi schemer", a failed attempt on his life, and perhaps the most outrageously corrupt trial in modern U.S. history, Robert Allen Stanford was convicted of this wholly manufactured fraud and sentenced by a federal judge to a staggering 110 years in prison. Like the jurors who sat through his trial and were (strategically) swayed by the photos of his yacht, private planes and sprawling Caribbean estate, for the past seven years Stanford's U.S. and international clients had believed strongly in the government's allegations against him. But not anymore.

Written inside the maximum security prison where Stanford has been held since his conviction, Brutal Takeover reveals a deception of epic proportion - an astonishing conspiracy to grab his global companies and assets, and use his sensationalized arrest to redeem the reputations damaged by the Madoff scandal...and make it all look like righteous, American justice.

"A truly remarkable story written in a frank, comprehensive and utterly absorbing style, with so many layers and encompassing monumentally epic themes. A plethora of key questions raised in a pertinent and extremely hard-
hitting fashion." - British Broadcasting Company (BBC)