Charles Ponzi
Books
- Fifty Percent in Ninety Days Charles Ponzi, the Boston Post, and the Scheme That Named a Fraud · Liszt Think
In 1920, an Italian immigrant clerk in Boston promised to double investments in ninety days through postal reply coupons.
- The Clerk from Lugano…official value and market reality that his father had treated as a problem of administration rather than an opportunity for gain. In 1920, Charles Ponzi would claim that he could double money in ninety days by exploiting this gap, buying international reply coupons in countries with deprecia…
- The Steerage Passenger…created a searchable record. The solution was characteristic: he became someone else. Carlo Ponzi, the documented forger, ceased to exist. Charles Ponzi, the name he would carry to historical notoriety, began his American existence with a calculated erasure. The change was not merely nominal…
- Rose of the North EndThe wife required a courtship, and Charles Ponzi approached it as he had approached every transaction since his arrival in Boston: as a negotiation in which the surface terms masked deeper…