R. Allen Stanford, former chief executive of Stanford Financial Group arrives for court Wednesday 5/26, the right side of his face still partially paralyzed from a prison fight with his cellmate six months earlier. The accused Texas financier faces a in January 2011 trial date on charges he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He now wants to represent himself and to do that, needs to be released from federal prison on house arrest so he can work with a bevy of attorneys, some of whom he wasn't sure were still on his case. Lloyds of London has been paying legal fees of $2 mil per month for all the defendants. Photo © 2010 F. Carter Smith