How Ponzi’s PR Guy Blew The Whistle

Recommended reading and viewing: The New York Times story and slide show on the original Charles Ponzi, inspired by an unpublished memoir by William McMasters, a Boston press agent whose clients incuded JFK's grandfather, Calvin Coolidge and – briefly – Ponzi.

McMasters wrote in his memoir: “I do not anticipate that another Charles Ponzi will ever appear in the financial world.” Bad guess!