Convicted of looting his businesses and customers of some $7 billion, at sentencing this swash-buckling corporate pirate trotted out a belief also expressed by Enron’s leadership after the mega-firm went belly-up thanks to fraudulent bookkeeping.  Namely, things were basically fine, we were operating legally and only collapsed because malevolent prosecutors chose to cast us in such a bad light.  R. Allen Stanford gets 110-year sentence for Ponzi scheme – Nation – MiamiHerald.com.