Charles Ponzi, pictured in Boston in July 1920 with a gold-handled cane and a diamond stickpin, lured investors by claiming he found a way to make huge profits buying international postal reply ...

On March 3, 1882, one-hundred-and-thirty-seven years ago today, the founding father of financial hijinks, Charles Ponzi, was born in Parma, Italy. Ponzi emigrated to the United States in 1903. He ...

A trailer into the story of Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer. Learn about Ponzi schemes, their impact, and how they earned their infamous name. A cardiologist’s no. 1 rule for healthy eating is ...

Tom Geyer is an attorney for Columbus-based Bailey Cavalieri, an adjunct professor at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, an expert witness on securities law and past commissioner of the ...

Over a century ago, Charles Ponzi gained infamy with a return-postage-coupon scheme in which he promised quick riches to investors — instead using money from new investors to provide supposed returns ...

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a years-long Ponzi scheme that defrauded international investors out of more than $94 million, prosecutors said. Andrew Hamilton Jacobus, a 64 ...

The con artist synonymous for scams and swindles was once acclaimed for his financial brilliance before his bubble burst. Charles Ponzi of Boston was an Italian-born American who duped investors in ...