"Pendergast-Holt, Laura"@en . . "Former chief investment officer of Stanford Financial Group who plead guilty for her role in a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme" . "Pendergast-Amy, Laura; Pendergast, Laura"@en . "1974Z"^^ . "Laura Pendergest-Holt (born 1973) is a convicted Ponzi scheme artist, financier, and former Chief Investment Officer of Stanford Financial Group, who was charged with a civil charge of fraud on February 17, 2009. On May 12, 2009, Pendergest-Holt was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of a criminal complaint of obstructing a fraud investigation and conspiracy to obstruct justice."@en .