{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Original Con: How Charles Ponzi Invented Modern Fraud - Part 4: The Collapse Begins","description":"The unraveling did not begin with sirens. It began with pressure. Too many claims. Too much cash demanded. Too many questions about the supposed coupon supply.\r\n\r\nIn the summer of nineteen twenty, Charles Ponzi’s operation started meeting the one thing every confidence scheme fears most. Scrutiny. According to contemporary accounts and later investigations, the Boston Post and other outlets began pressing on the logic of the returns. That mattered because Ponzi had prospered not only on arithmetic but on reputation.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/charles-ponzi","author_name":"The Archive Network"}