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    Charles Ponzi (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was an Italian charlatan...
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    with funds from more recent investors. Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, this type of scheme misleads investors by either falsely suggesting...
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    won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service after exposing Charles Ponzi as a fraud. The newspaper expose covered individuals with political...
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  • This is a list of Ponzi schemes, fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors rather...
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    Jacobson Episode: "Front Yard Wrestling" Another Period Yes No Yes No Charles Ponzi Episode: "Lillian's Birthday"; executive producer Big Time in Hollywood...
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    involvement in uncovering Charles Ponzi's banking irregularities known as the "Ponzi Scheme." Early in his career, con man Charles Ponzi rented a room in an...
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    Pinkard, Roanoke businessman and purveyor of quack medicines. Charles Ponzi, for whom the "Ponzi scheme" is named, a scam that relies on a pyramid of investors...
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  • Boston Post received one of the first Pulitzer prizes for exposing Charles Ponzi as a fraud. Grozier was born in Brooklyn to Edwin and Alice Grozier...
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    murder conspirator Charles "Carl" Panzram, American serial killer Charles Ponzi, Italian-American con-man, gave name to Ponzi scheme Charles Sobhraj, Indian...
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  • Reed Slatkin (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
    the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself. Slatkin had been an ordained Scientology...
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  • February 28, 1968) was an American journalist and publicist who exposed Charles Ponzi as a fraudster. McMasters was born on June 9, 1874, in Franklin, Massachusetts...
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  • Sarah Howe (fraudster) (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
    an American fraudster who operated several Ponzi schemes—although her schemes predated namesake Charles Ponzi by several decades—in the 1870s and 1880s...
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  • controls in place ... would prevent future embezzlement". Bank Secrecy Act Charles Ponzi Confiscation Currency transaction report Customer Identification Program...
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  • Hanover Trust Company (category Charles Ponzi)
    turning down Charles Ponzi for a loan of 2,000 dollars (for his IRC scheme) in 1919, and subsequently for being bought up by Charles Ponzi in July 1920...
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  • a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme; sentenced to 50 years in federal prison Charles Ponzi, Italian con artist who gave his name to the Ponzi scheme. Gert Postel...
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    1950 Suspense Sig 2 episodes 1950 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Charles Ponzi Episode: "The Ponzi Story" 1950 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse — Episode:...
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    "Ride" Backstage Clive Richie Season 2 Episode 25 Home for the Holidays Charles Ponzi Television movie 2019 Frankie Drake Mysteries Bruce Fordham Episode:...
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    investigated Charles Ponzi, inventor of the Ponzi scheme, for The Boston Post. His aggressive questioning and commonsense reasoning helped lead to Ponzi's arrest...
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  • regularly roll over, or re-borrow, the principal. The "Ponzi borrower" (named for Charles Ponzi, see also Ponzi scheme) borrows based on the belief that the appreciation...
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  • second-eldest Bellacourt daughter, who is often seen wearing a tiara. After Charles Ponzi left her at the altar at age 11, "the height of a woman's sexual peak...
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  • Leo Koretz (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
    contemporary, Charles Ponzi. Koretz was so trusted and admired that after Ponzi's fraud was exposed in 1920, his investors nicknamed him "Our Ponzi," never...
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    2013. ISBN 978-0-465-03292-1. (Eighth chapter: "Math error number 8: underestimation. The case of Charles Ponzi: American dream, American scheme")....
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  • reply coupons mailed by participants of Charles Ponzi's scheme are a 20th-century example of mail fraud. Ponzi was charged with the U.S. federal crime...
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  • Brooklyn Bridge" originated from this con. Charles Ponzi (1882–1949): Italian swindler and con artist; "Ponzi scheme" is a type of fraud named after him...
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  • stopped selling international reply coupons on 27 January 2013. In 1920, Charles Ponzi made use of the idea that profit could be made by taking advantage of...
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    regularly roll over, or re-borrow, the principal. The "Ponzi borrower" (named for Charles Ponzi, see also Ponzi scheme) borrows based on the belief that the appreciation...
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  • Also briefly discussed is the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi's postal coupon business, the original Ponzi scheme. The primary focus of the book, however...
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  • was released on May 6, 2006, a week after her elimination from Idol. Charles Ponzi – con artist and swindler who served a year for securities fraud and...
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  • Brackenreids are conned out of their life savings by a young Italian named Charles Ponzi, and develop a scam involving Crabtree, Higgins, Nina Bloom and Ruth...
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    new investments which "Rivier" received in ever-increasing amounts. (Charles Ponzi, after whom such schemes came to be known, perpetrated an almost identical...
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