Sidedoor: Ponzi’s scheme

Tom Cruise may never play a glamorous postal inspector in an action movie, but these intrepid federal law enforcement officers brought down one of the most infamous swindlers of all time.

Nearly 100 years ago, Charles Ponzi stumbled across a loophole in the international postal system and turned it into one of the most infamous scams of all time. On this episode of on Sidedoor, we follow Ponzi from his early days until his epic downfall, and hear from a postal investigator trained to catch swindlers like Ponzi who continue to use the U.S. mail for nefarious purposes.

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