Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950) was a prominent financier, philanthropist, and sponsor of professional sports who is in prison awaiting trial on charges his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud. Stanford was the chairman of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group of Companies. A fifth-generation Texan who resides in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, he holds dual citizenship, being a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda and a United States citizen. Allen Stanford is still in US custody and waiting for his trial to start in September of 2011.