Edwin Pride
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 Publisher’s Gamble…gton Street, the August heat pressing against the glass, while behind him on the desk lay the document that had arrived that afternoon from Edwin Pride. The certified public accountant’s examination of the Securities Exchange Company was complete. The numbers spoke with a clarity that rende…
- The Bank Examiner’s Knock…on and traveled downtown through streets already thickened by rumor. The Boston Post had published its second exposé on Saturday, August 7, Edwin Pride’s audit reducing Ponzi’s postal coupon arbitrage to physical impossibility: more coupons claimed than existed in the entire world. By Monda…
- The District Attorney’s Warrant…wspaper and a case that would satisfy a jury. The Ponzi investigation required both. He spent August 17 and 18 tracing the money paths that Edwin Pride’s audit had partially illuminated: the deposits moving from School Street to Hanover Trust, the loans Ponzi had taken against those deposit…