( April 10, 2026, 10:02 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed summary judgment against Robert Allen Stanford, the criminally convicted leader of a long-term Ponzi scheme in an enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Stanford and other scheme participants, finding no reversible error of fact or law; the lower court granted summary judgment as to several participants but Stanford was the only one to appeal....