Apropos of nothing, CNBC posted an undated, 3-minute promotional video for Stanford Financial Group earlier this week. Stanford Financial Group, of course, was the vehicle that convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford used to defraud investors out of billions before he was arrested in 2009 and finally convicted and sentenced to 110 years in prison in June 2012.

The video is clearly from Allen Stanford's "pre-indictment" days--the good old days for Stanford when he was a billionaire "knight" whose office at SFG's Houston headquarters had a private exit for him through his personal bathroom, and included a five-star dining room, movie theater, professional kitchen and wine bar. It starts out with a narrator comparing SFG to an eagle in various different ways, and then rolls into a clip of Stanford himself standing in his fabulous office space touting the various benefits of his firm and how it "develops relationships based on trust and integrity."

In hindsight, the video is quite bizarre to watch in 2012--kind of like watching Bernie Ebbers brag about WorldCom in the 1990s. Check it out below:

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