(Original Caption) Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard" of Boston who succeeded in amassing a fortune through his endless chain of sales of Foreign Exchange following the World War, later went to ...
An Italian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1903 with just $2.50 in his pocket, Charles Ponzi ascended from obscurity to dizzying wealth seemingly overnight. But under the surface of his ...
Apple TV+ has announced “Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story,” an Apple Original Podcast that tells the story of Charles Ponzi — an Italian immigrant who, in 1920, defrauded the modern-day equivalent ...
In 1920, Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi defrauded investors in the Boston area and across the nation of what would today be a quarter of a billion dollars, going from penniless to the high life in no ...