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Quick question -- how many "outside wives" do you have?

R. Allen Stanford had the customary number -- no more, no less -- for a Miami bigshot who was bilking investors for billions from his base at the Miami Center.

I mean, the guy's not greedy or anything.

But I guess one of his "outside wives" sold her Key Biscayne house and moved the proceeds offshore blah blah blah, and the Houston receiver overseeing the case doesn't really like that too much:

Stanford receiver Ralph Janvey said he wants U.S. District Judge David Godbey to find Rebecca Reeves-Stanford and her Florida attorneys in contempt for selling a $3 million house in May, after she learned Stanford’s assets were being sought to repay investors allegedly swindled in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

Reeves-Stanford, a resident of Key Biscayne, near Miami, is “one of several ‘outside wives’ with whom Stanford had an ongoing relationship” for “nearly two decades,” Kevin Sadler, Janvey’s attorney, said in court papers filed yesterday in federal court in Dallas.

Reeves-Stanford’s newest lawyer, Bradford M. Cohen of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said Janvey won’t succeed in having his client or her previous attorneys found in contempt.

Hmm, just who are the Miami attorneys who are alleged to have assisted Ms. Reeves-Stanford?

(Please please please please please.....)

Darn!

Janvey is asking that Reeves-Stanford’s two previous lawyers -- Melida Viera and John Priovolos, both of Miami -- be held in contempt for allegedly facilitating her sale of the property and movement of the proceeds to an offshore account. Priovolos declined to comment. Viera couldn’t be reached for comment after regular business hours yesterday.

Cue well-worn anecdote.......