From Ponzi to Madoff: Interactive Graphic from the Wall Street Journal

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From Ponzi to Madoff

"The arrest of investment manager Bernard Madoff for allegedly running an ongoing $50 billion swindle is the latest scam of the kind made famous by Charles Ponz in the 1920's. In these schemes, early participants are paid returns from the principle received from later and different investors." -Wall Street Journal