The Ponzi Scheme
Release date: 2014-02-14
Votes: 2
Genres: History, Drama
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
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