Stanford's ground in Antigua

The Wall Street Journal solicited my Yank-in-London’s take on this other Yank in London, cricket upstart and all-hat/all-fur-coat (depending on whose English you’re speaking) Sir Allen Stanford.

I collaborated with my friend Malcolm Bracken who knows a thing or two about cricket. Together we wrote:

“The tale of Allen Stanford — Texas billionaire, cricket enthusiast, and, it is now alleged, major fraudster — is one of a kind, drawing together, in one odd and oddly compelling saga, the English national pastime, the economy of Antigua, Bernie Madoff, a dodgy knighthood and an ice chest full of U.S. dollars.”

You can read the whole thing if you want.