Put this in the "how the mighty have fallen" category:

Jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford wanted former White House political adviser Karl Rove's attorney to represent him against charges he bilked investors out of $7 billion.

But instead he's getting a public defender.

NPR's Nora Raum introduces this report from Ed Mayberry of Houston Public Radio:

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