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Retrospective features in U.S. and U.K. papers treat 1920 Boston as etymology: the day a pattern older than Ponzi acquired a surname. Teaching notes still start from the Post, not from later Hollywood. He told investors that profits would come from buying and redeeming International Reply Coupons across borders. Investigators in 1920 showed that coupon issuance could not support the money he was taking.
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Charles Ponzi · paras 2
Clarence Barron's intervention -- a publisher saying the coupon float could not support the books -- gave the story a finance-press voice, not only a local-crime voice. That pairing still structures how the Journal and the FT write later cases.
Charles Ponzi · paras 3
Retrospective features in U.S. and U.K. papers treat 1920 Boston as etymology: the day a pattern older than Ponzi acquired a surname. Teaching notes still start from the Post, not from later Hollywood. He told investors that profits would come from buying and redeeming International Reply Coupons across borders. Investigators in 1920 showed that coupon issuance could not support the money he was taking.
Charles Ponzi · When did the scheme collapse?
Public unraveling came in July-August 1920 as the Boston Post published its investigation and investors sought redemptions. Ponzi surrendered to authorities in August 1920. He pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud in 1920. Massachusetts later convicted him of larceny after a 1922 mistrial and a 1925 guilty verdict. He served federal then state time.
Charles Ponzi · How much money was involved?
Contemporary estimates commonly cite about $15-20 million in 1920 dollars of liabilities or take, with tens of thousands of note-holders. The figure is not comparable, unadjusted, to late-twentieth-century cases. The Post's July-August 1920 reporting, using Barron and postal facts, is the investigation the Pulitzer board later honored.
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Public unraveling came in July-August 1920 as the Boston Post published its investigation and investors sought redemptions. Ponzi surrendered to authorities in August 1920. He pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud in 1920. Massachusetts later convicted him of larceny after a 1922 mistrial and a 1925 guilty verdict. He served federal then state time.
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Contemporary estimates commonly cite about $15-20 million in 1920 dollars of liabilities or take, with tens of thousands of note-holders. The figure is not comparable, unadjusted, to late-twentieth-century cases. The Post's July-August 1920 reporting, using Barron and postal facts, is the investigation the Pulitzer board later honored.
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