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“Shall you go on paying claims tomorrow?”: “All Demands Met by Ponzi, Investigators Still at Sea,” Boston Daily Globe, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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“Money boy!”: “Ponzi and McMasters Sue Each Other—Run Continued Today,” Boston Evening Globe, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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“Well, they didn’t break me yesterday”: “Department of Justice Joins in Probe of Ponzi’s Business,” Boston Post, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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“Mountains of money available”: “Another Day’s Run Sees Ponzi Smiling,” New York Times, August 4, 1920, p. 6.
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“How are your newspapers selling?”: “Ponzi and McMasters Sue Each Other—Run Continued Today,” Boston Evening Globe, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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suing McMasters for two thousand dollars: “Department of Justice Joins in Probe of Ponzi’s Business,” Boston Post, August 4, 1920, p. 1; “Ponzi Sues Agent, $2,000; Agent Sues Ponzi, $5,000,” Boston Herald, August 4, 1920, p. 4.
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McMasters understood the game: Ibid.; Wilton Vaugh, “M’Masters in Reply to ‘The Wizard,’ ” Boston Post, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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even another attack by Barron: “Entire Issue of Coupons Last Year Only $60,000,” Boston Post, August 4, 1920, p. 6, reprinted from the previous day’s Boston News Bureau.
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“Everybody’s but my own!”: “Mounted Police Rout Ponzi Clients; Frantic Thousands Mob Defender; Federal Agents to Speed Up Inquiry,” Boston Herald, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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a sign appeared that day: “Ponzi Greatest Man in Country, North End View,” Boston Daily Globe, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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“the most talked of man in America”: Photo caption alongside story “Crisis for Ponzi,” Boston American, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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Ponzi paid a visit: “Another Day’s Run Sees Ponzi Smiling,” New York Times, August 4, 1920, p. 6.
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more than $400,000: “Crisis for Ponzi,” Boston American, August 3, 1920, p. 1.
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“After this investigation”: “Department of Justice Joins in Probe of Ponzi’s Business,” Boston Post, August 4, 1920, p. 1; “Another Day’s Run Sees Ponzi Smiling,” New York Times, August 4, 1920, p. 6.
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a very public night out: “Ponzi Wants to Be an Actor,” Boston Post, August 4, 1920, p. 2; “Ponzi Pays All Comers; Federal Agent Arrives,” Boston Daily Globe, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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Fewer than a hundred people: “Ponzi Baffles Probers,” Boston American, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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clothes fit for an angel: Floyd Gibbons, “Ponzi Pays as Probers Work,” Boston Post, August 5, 1920, p. 1.
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Ponzi’s only comment for investigators: “Ponzi Refuses Inquiry to Show His Assets; Run on His Boston Office Practically Ended,” New York Times, August 5, 1920, p. 15.
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“The exposé by the man: “Run on Ponzi Dwindles,” Boston Traveler, August 4, 1920, p. 1.
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Ponzi had paid out another $313,000: Floyd Gibbons, “Ponzi Pays as Probers Work,” Boston Post, August 5, 1920, p. 1.
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capitalized on the chaos: Ponzi, p. 165; “Questions Ex-Secretary,” Boston Globe, October 25, 1922. Ponzi’s autobiography and the newspaper articles about Lucy Meli’s testimony do not name Cassullo, but both provide enough detail to allow one to conclude that he was the culprit. Also, given his criminal past, his blackmailing of Ponzi, and his eventual disappearance, the shoe fits.
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Ponzi returned to the theater: “Ponzi Poses for Movies on Boston Theatre Stage,” Boston Daily Globe, August 5, 1920, p. 10.
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Only fifty-seven people showed up: “Palmer Takes Up the Ponzi Case,” Boston Daily Globe, August 6, 1920, p. 1.
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$168,000: “Ponzi Case Probe Shifts to Capital,” Boston Post, August 6, 1920, p. 1.
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Ponzi’s pals Louis and Charlotte Blass: “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.
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Ponzi’s humble days in Mobile,