At a glance
U.S. courts, the SEC, and English-language journalism adopted 'Ponzi scheme' as the standard label for this payment pattern. Madoff and others are described as larger examples of the same legal idea. Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi lands in the U.S. after leaving Italy. Later records note early theft and forgery troubles in Canada and the U.S.
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Charles Ponzi · Was this the first such fraud?
No. Earlier promoters had paid old investors with new money. The 1920 Boston collapse is the namesake event in English, not the first instance in history. After state custody he was deported. He died in a Rio de Janeiro charity hospital on 18 January 1949. Those years are biography; they do not reopen the 1920 Boston facts.
Charles Ponzi · Why do later cases still use his name?
U.S. courts, the SEC, and English-language journalism adopted 'Ponzi scheme' as the standard label for this payment pattern. Madoff and others are described as larger examples of the same legal idea. Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi lands in the U.S. after leaving Italy. Later records note early theft and forgery troubles in Canada and the U.S.
Charles Ponzi · Death in Rio
Ponzi dies on 18 January 1949 in Rio de Janeiro. By then U.S. enforcement already used his name as a category. Later textbook names (SEC staff, modern judges) use 'Ponzi' as a doctrine. They are not 1920 Boston actors.
Charles Ponzi · blurb
Organizer of the Securities Exchange Company. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud in 1920; convicted of Massachusetts larceny in 1925; died in Brazil in 1949. Head of the financial publishing house that became Barron's. His 1920 analysis of coupon volume gave the Post a market-size fact it could print.
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Ponzi dies on 18 January 1949 in Rio de Janeiro. By then U.S. enforcement already used his name as a category. Later textbook names (SEC staff, modern judges) use 'Ponzi' as a doctrine. They are not 1920 Boston actors.
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Organizer of the Securities Exchange Company. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud in 1920; convicted of Massachusetts larceny in 1925; died in Brazil in 1949. Head of the financial publishing house that became Barron's. His 1920 analysis of coupon volume gave the Post a market-size fact it could print.
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