Greenberg Traurig has agreed to pay $65 million to victims of an estimated $7 billion Ponzi scheme who said the law firm helped the now-convicted swindler Allen Stanford perpetrate his fraud.
The court-appointed receiver, the Official Stanford Investors Committee, and individual investors who purchased fraudulent certificates of deposit issued by Stanford asked in a filing late Thursday for a federal court in Dallas, Texas to approve the settlement.
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