IV 111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1129 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2010 Mr. Coffman of Colorado submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House that the Secretary of the Treasury should direct the United States Executive Directors to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose making any loans to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda until that Government cooperates with the United States and compensates the victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud.

Whereas thousands of investors, many of them in the United States, lost billions of dollars that they invested in fraudulent Stanford International Bank certificates of deposit; Whereas Allen Stanford had close ties with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and, among other things, Mr. Stanford is alleged to have loaned at least $85,000,000 to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, which likely came from investor funds; Whereas the relationship of the Stanford Financial Group with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda was described in a joint statement by the Stanford Financial Group and the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda as a productive and mutually beneficial relationship; Whereas the United States Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Leroy King, the chief executive officer of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission of Antigua and Barbuda, was bribed by Mr. Stanford not to investigate the Stanford International Bank, to provide Mr. Stanford with access to the Financial Services Regulatory Commission's confidential files, to allow Mr. Stanford to dictate the Financial Services Regulatory Commission's responses to inquiries by the Securities and Exchange Commission about the Stanford International Bank, and to withhold information from the Securities and Exchange Commission; Whereas, after the fraud allegedly perpetrated by the Stanford Financial Group was made public, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda seized Stanford property in Antigua and Barbuda worth up to several hundred million dollars; Whereas, in an October 28, 2009, report, the United States court-appointed receiver, Ralph Janvey, reported that the total of all cash collected is $128.8 million, of which $71.5 million remains on hand after payment of expenses, which falls far short of investor losses; Whereas Janvey's report also noted that the Antiguan liquidators object to every attempt to secure and liquidate assets, world-wide, and [t]he government of Antigua refuses to recognize US orders even as to entities for which there is no other owner i.e. the Antiguan liquidators were only appointed to liquidate two of the more than 150 Stanford entities, but we are hindered by Antigua's refusal to recognize the Court's orders even as to non-disputed entities; and Whereas the Government of Antigua and Barbuda is seeking loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House that the Secretary of the Treasury should direct the United States Executive Directors to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to ensure that any loan made by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda is conditioned on providing complete redress to the victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud, including through— (1)the full cooperation of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and the liquidators appointed for the liquidation proceeding relating to the Stanford International Bank in Antigua and Barbuda with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the United States court-appointed receiver in investigating the Stanford Financial Group fraud and marshaling the assets of Mr. Stanford and Stanford-affiliated entities; (2)an agreement by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to be subject to the jurisdiction and bound by the judgment of any United States court or international court that is adjudicating the claims of victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud; (3)the transfer of the assets seized by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and the liquidators in Antigua and Barbuda to the United States court-appointed receiver for the benefit of victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud; (4)a contribution by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States receivership estate, for the benefit of victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud, in an amount equal to the amount of any funds provided to Antigua and Barbuda by Mr. Stanford or any Stanford-affiliated entity; and (5)a contribution by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States receivership estate, for the benefit of victims of the Stanford Financial Group fraud, in an amount equal to any payments made by Mr. Stanford or the Stanford Financial Group to officials of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda for the purpose of subverting regulatory oversight of the Stanford International Bank.