Allen Stanford Fit To Face Charges For Defrauding World Class Golfers...

...and other people of means. Eileen O'Grady of Reuters reports the accused Ponzi schemer's "retrograde amnesia" claim didn't pass the smell test.

Prosecutors say Stanford has faked his memory problems and that there is no evidence to support his claims. They say prison officials have concluded he is competent and they want that his trial to go forward as scheduled on January 23.

The amnesia that Stanford has described "is incredibly rare. There is hardly any documented medical research," Dr. Robert Cochrane, the staff psychologist at a federal prison hospital in North Carolina who evaluated Stanford, testified on Tuesday.

On cross examination, Stanford's lawyers argued that the jailhouse beating caused lasting brain injury and that drugs administered after the injury have impaired his memory.

For more from the Stanford files, there are past posts here, here, here and here.