Stanford Loses Texas Lawyer?

An attorney who represented Allen Stanford is apparently off the case, notes the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog.

Charles Meadows, a Dallas lawyer, once represented Stanford, but that relationship recently went the way of Bristol and Levi, the WSJ observes.  No reason was given.

Meadows, in a recent filing for the alleged billionaire swindler, said the SEC’s allegations against Stanford were “false” and it had “presented no evidence of any such Ponzi scheme.”

By our count, Meadows is at least the second lawyer from the Stanford side of the affair to drop out.  He joins Thomas Sjoblom, the Stanford-hired attorney who had accompanied exec Laura Pendergest-Holt to a meeting with SEC officials. 

Sjoblom gave notice he was cutting ties the day after the meeting, and told the SEC he “disavowed” everything he had said or written on behalf of Stanford Financial.  The feds later charged Pendergest-Holt with hindering their investigation.