HOUSTON — A court hearing on whether jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is competent to stand trial was briefly delayed after attorneys told a judge that prison officials had concerns over whether Stanford is suicidal.

The competency hearing resumed Thursday before U.S. District Judge David Hittner. Stanford is accused of bilking investors out of $7 billion in a Ponzi scheme.

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