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Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that
price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best
show that was ever staged in their territory since the landing
of the Pilgrims! It was easily worth fteen million bucks to
watch me put the thing over.
Charles Ponzi, describing his view of his swindle
Give me my money! Kill Ponzi! Tear him to pieces!
A largely Italian crowd of defrauded investors, taking a
decidedly dimmer view than Ponzi’s, outside the Boston
ofce of his closed investment house, August 14, 1920
Well, that’s what I did.
Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, Bureau of Prisons number
61727-054, to a fellow inmate who observed ...