Receiver wants assets of Stanford's "outside" wife

HOUSTON Aug 14 (Reuters) - The court-appointed attorney overseeing Allen Stanford's assets is pursuing proceeds from the sale of a $3 million Florida home once owned by one of the accused swindler's mistresses, court documents show.

According to court documents filed on Thursday, Rebecca Reeves-Stanford, 54, sold her home in Key Biscayne, Florida, in May and transferred the proceeds to accounts in the Cook Islands and New Zealand to avoid turning the money over to the case's receiver.

Reeves-Stanford, mother of two of Stanford's six children, "is one of several 'outside wives' with whom Stanford had an ongoing relationship," lawyers for receiver Ralph Janvey wrote in a court filings. "Stanford apparently provided Reeves with large sums of money and substantial gifts for nearly two decades."

Stanford, who is awaiting trial, has an estranged wife, a girlfriend, and three other children with two other women.

Janvey has asked U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas to sanction Reeves-Stanford and two of her lawyers.

Janvey has also asked the court to evict Stanford's 27-year-old daughter Randi from her luxury high-rise condominium in Houston valued at more than $1 million.

Stanford faces 21 criminal charges related to an alleged Ponzi scheme.

The court documents said that because Stanford contributed at least $1.4 million to purchase the house, the proceeds from its sale are part of the receivership estate.

"Even if Reeves is innocent of any wrongdoing with regard to the improper scheme by Stanford that underlies this action, she still had no entitlement to act as she did," lawyers for Janvey said in the court filings.

Stanford has denied any wrongdoing .

According to documents filed by her lawyer, Reeves-Stanford had to sell the house because the court order freezing Allen Stanford's assets put a stop to her child-support payments and the sale of her property has not violated the Dallas court's order.

The civil case is filed in federal court in Dallas, 3:09-cv-00298-N Securities and Exchange Commission v. Stanford International Bank Ltd et al. (Reporting by Anna Driver)