Money | Robert Allen Stanford Stanford Bank in Antigua Missing $8B 'It appears to be a Ponzi scheme,' investigator says By Nick McMaster Posted Feb 22, 2009 5:03 PM CST Copied In this Feb. 19, 2009 file photo, customers of Stanford Bank walk outside one of its offices in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Carlos Hernandez, File) Investigators rummaging around Allen Stanford's Antiguan bank have confirmed media reports that $8 billion is missing, the Times of London reports. “The $8 billion you hear about in the media isn’t there,” one official told customers outside the Stanford International Bank. "It appears to be a Ponzi scheme.” "We will be tracking the money in overseas banks, find a million in one, track another million to another bank,” the investigator said. “But there is nothing like $8 billion here." Read These Next Mel Gibson apologizes for 'spontaneous thoughtless idiocy.' For $2 million, you could live like Dolly. Teacher ordered students uphill, saved 900 lives. If you like it, then you shouldn't put a ring on it. Report an error