Stanford has spent the past three years in jail after being deemed a flight risk

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Stanford has spent the past three years in jail after being deemed a flight risk

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Allen Stanford arrives for a bond hearing in 2009. The financier and cricket mogul was sentenced to 110 years in jail for a $7 billion Ponzi scheme Thursday, closing the book on the flamboyant ex-tycoon's stunning fall from grace.