US case tells tale of Stanford exec's legal woes By Chris Baltimore Fri Feb 27, 4:03 pm ET HOUSTON (Reuters) – Laura Pendergest-Holt, who spent Thursday night in a Houston detention center, can trace her legal ills to a private aircraft hangar in Miami. That's where the Stanford Financial Group's 35-year-old chief investment officer huddled with other executives and lawyers on January 22 to hammer out a strategy for dealing with federal investigators. They were probing what they would later call a massive scheme to defraud holders of $8 billion worth of certificates of deposit in an Antigua-based bank. In...