ONE hundred and fifty years after Charles Dickens wrote in Little Dorritt about London investors succumbing to the fraudulent investment schemes of Mr. Merdle’s bank, trusting victims are still ...
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Ponzi schemes derive their name from Charles Ponzi, a prominent promoter of such a scheme in the early twentieth century. The U.S. Supreme Court has recounted “the remarkable criminal financial ...