Daniel Gallagher
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 Steerage Passenger…rison records note his conduct as exemplary, his literacy as unusual, his ambition as evident. Here, according to his later account, he met Daniel Gallagher, a fellow inmate whose stories of financial manipulation provided what Ponzi would describe as his schooling in sophisticated theft. Gallag…
- The Circular from Spain…he absence of practical verification was, in the logic of his emerging enterprise, merely a temporary condition that capital would resolve. Daniel Gallagher, in this period, occupied a position that would later make him Ponzi’s antagonist but now marked only the institutional landscape through w…
- The Run on School StreetDaniel Gallagher arrived at the corner of School and Washington Streets on a July morning in 1920 and found himself unable to reach the building he had come…