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details, see “Understood He Paid $29,000 for Home,” Boston Globe, January 7, 1925, p. 1; “Post Prints Ponzi List of Investors,” Boston Post, August 23, 1920, p. 1; “Well-Known Men Got Big Hauls from Ponzi,” Boston Post, August 25, 1920, p. 1;, “ ‘Charlie’s a Born Aristocrat,’ Says Mrs. Rose Ponzi,” Boston Post, December 3, 1922, Special Feature Section, p. 1; “Ponzi Won’t Admit Giving Note for Home,” Boston Globe, June 9, 1921; “Dispose of Ponzi Mansion,” New York Times, June 10, 1921, p. 24; “His Pretty Girl Wife Sorry When Ponzi Quit $50 Job,” Boston Globe, August 8, 1920, p. 8; and Nancy Wrynne, “Ponzi’s Home Life Is Simple and Devoid of Ostentation,” Boston Sunday Herald, August 1, 1920.

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Ponzi received his first notice: “Dear Old ‘Get Rich Quick’ Pops out of Postal Guide,” Boston Traveler, June 9, 1920, p. 1.

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Ponzi mollified Cassullo: “Swell Ponzi’s Assets $15,500,” Boston Post, September 6, 1920, p. 18; “Two Witnesses Sought in Ponzi Case Disappear,” Boston Herald, September 12, 1920, p. 1; “Ponzi, Defiant, Balks Efforts of Receivers,” Boston Post, August 23, 1920, p. 1; “Sale of Home Ponzi Bought Restrained,” Boston Globe, September 7, 1920.

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Cassullo was not satisfied: “Says Three-Fourths of Police Ponzi Investors,” Boston Globe, November 22, 1922.

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June was on track: Monthly investment totals come from the federal audit that led to the closure of the Securities Exchange Company and were evidence at Ponzi’s 1922 trial. “How the Bubble Grew,” Boston Evening Transcript, November 6, 1922, p. 24.

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Daniel Desmond: “Desmond Resigns from Lawrence Trust Company,” Boston Globe, August 24, 1920, p. 8; “Grill Ponzi Again Today,” Boston Post, August 24, 1920.

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Blasses spun the wheel of fortune: “Ponzi Winners Include Coupon Wizard’s Wife,” Boston Traveler, August 24, 1920, p. 1; “Two Witnesses Sought in Ponzi Case Disappear,” Boston Herald, September 12, 1920, p. 1; “Sued for $90,000 by Ponzi Trustee,” Boston Globe, March 8, 1925; “Blass Denies He Was an Agent for Ponzi,” Boston Globe, November 9, 1920.

Chapter Ten: “I never bluff.”

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Napoli Macaroni Manufacturing Company: “Well-Known Men Got Big Hauls from Ponzi,” Boston Post, August 25, 1920, p. 1; Summary of Debts and Assets of Charles Ponzi in Bankruptcy, Schedule B(2), Case 28063, on file at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, Massachusetts; Ponzi, p. 104.

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Ponzi walked unannounced: Ponzi, pp. 106–8. Although Ponzi is the only source of the exchange between himself and Poole, his account is supported by verifiable facts about his purchase of the company. See Summary of Debts and Assets of Charles Ponzi in Bankruptcy, Schedule B(2), Case 28063, on file at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, Massachusetts; “Ponzi Creditors May Get Back 47 Percent,” Boston Globe, October 6, 1920.

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He bought a small tenement house: Summary of Debts and Assets of Charles Ponzi in Bankruptcy, Schedule B(2), Case 28063, on file at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, Massachusetts; “Ponzi Creditors May Get Back 47 Percent,” Boston Globe, October 6, 1920; Ponzi, p. 104.

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forty thousand dollars to Charles Pizzi: “Bank Cashed Ponzi Notes for $240,000,” Boston Globe, September 1, 1920, p. 1. Pizzi’s notes were not included in the schedule of Ponzi’s bankruptcy assets because Pizzi took responsibility for repaying them.

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The smallest, for five hundred dollars: Summary of Debts and Assets of Charles Ponzi in Bankruptcy, Schedule B(2), Case 28063, on file at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, Massachusetts; “Well-Known Men Got Big Hauls from Ponzi,” Boston Post, August 25, 1920, p. 1; Ponzi, p. 123.

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He bought fifty shares: Summary of Debts and Assets of Charles Ponzi in Bankruptcy, Schedule B(2), Case 28063, on file at the National Archives and Records Administration in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Hanover Trust, a bank with about $5 million: Annual Report of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Banks, 1920, p. vi,