(PHOTO: Phony conservative Sean Hannity shills for gold scam bucket shop owner "Sir" Allen Stanford of the Stanford Financial Group, indicted by the SEC for fraud.)

(Feb. 18, 2009) "Mention 'Sean Hannity' to Stanford Coins & Bullion and get a free guidebook."

Yup, that's Stanford as in Stanford Financial Group, or Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire fugitive whose currently missing after being charged Tuesday in connection with a multi-billion-dollar fraud.

"Stanford Coins & Bullion, a member of the Stanford Financial Group, their name as good as gold," Hannity intones on advertisements that regularly run on his radio show.

"I couldn't believe it when I heard the advertisement," said Michael Levine, a regular Hannity listener from Westchester County, New York.

He called the radio station on Tuesday to inform them Stanford had been implicated in what the SEC termed "massive, ongoing" fraud. "They told me they had no idea what I was talking about," Levine told the Huffington Post.