( May 18, 2026, 3:11 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 15 denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by Robert Allen Stanford, the criminally convicted leader of a long-running Ponzi scheme, in an enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Stanford and other scheme participants; the panel had affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for the SEC, finding no reversible error of fact or law....