Former Stanford Financial Group brokers Charles Rawl and Mark Tidwell say they helped regulators build a fraud case by supplying the government with emails, testimony and names of people to question. They answered questions when Securities and Exchange Commission investigators camped out at the Stanford offices near the Galleria before shutting down the firm in February 2009. All along, they say, SEC attorneys promised them legal protection to quell their concerns about retaliation by Stanford or being lumped together with anyone implicated in the investigation. More in the Houston Chronicle here.
