US authorities 'had been investigating Allen Stanford for 15 years'

[Torie]

Investigations can be conducted at a quite leisurely pace can't they?   Frankly, some of these government boys are not trained very well to ferret out clever financial frauds. They are about as facile at it as well, reporters, you know the guys who can't manage to balance their own check books, much less report on the financial follies of others.