A broke gym owner from Texas stole $7 BILLION, got knighted by an entire country, and got caught because he couldn't pay for a private jet with a credit card – Allen Stanford grew up poor in Texas. Opened a gym. It went bankrupt. He racked up $13 MILLION in personal debt. – He moved to the Caribbean and opened an offshore bank in Antigua. – Promised investors returns higher than any American bank. 30,000 people across 100 countries sent money in. – His CFO later admitted the numbers were completely made up from day one. That was literally his job. – Stanford bribed the chief banking regulator to look the other way. They sealed the deal by cutting their fingers and mixing their blood. – He spent $100 MILLION on private jets in three years. Bought a private island for $63 MILLION. Paid $12 MILLION just to make his yacht six feet longer. – The government of Antigua knighted him. He insisted every official document call him Sir Allen Stanford. – In 2008 he flew to Lord's cricket ground in London in a gold-trimmed helicopter carrying a transparent box of $20 MILLION cash. The largest prize in team sports history. England's cricket board signed on the spot. – He was filmed touching the England players' wives in the stands while their husbands played. National scandal. – Six months later the FBI raided his offices. – He called a private jet company to flee to Antigua and tried to pay with a credit card. They only took wire transfers. – The FBI found him hiding at his girlfriend's house in Virginia. – 20 years. $7 BILLION stolen. Investors got back 5 cents for every dollar. – He told the judge "I did not defraud anybody." The jury took three hours. – He got 110 years with no parole. Antigua stripped his knighthood. His blood brother the banking regulator got 10 years. – The castle with 57 rooms, the moat, the private island, the helicopter all gone. He built an empire on invented numbers and sealed it in blood.