Ponzi's Scheme (2005)
“The Boston Globe EPILOGUE Ponzi settled quickly into his new home: Cell 126 at the Plymouth County Jail, a concrete monolith with a million-dollar view of the Pilgrim landing site at Plymouth Harbor and, beyond that, Cape Cod Bay. He returned to the jailhouse routine familiar to him from Montreal and Atlanta: wake at dawn, dress in prison grays, work in the prison library, lights out at 8:30 P.M. Still, he retained his refined tastes, ordering engraved stationery—“Charles Ponzi, Plymouth, Mass....”—as if the jail were his summer home by the sea.
A few days after Ponzi’s guilty plea, a New York Times editorial offered a remarkably balanced epitaph on the affair. First, it poured on the condemnation, decrying him as “an egregious falsifier and a wholesale betrayer of simple confidences.” But the Times recognized that there was more to Ponzi. “There was something picturesque, something suggestive of the gallant about him, and it is almost possible, though not quite, to believe that he was as credulous as his victims and deceived himself as much as he did them,”MoreLess
A few days after Ponzi’s guilty plea, a New York Times editorial offered a remarkably balanced epitaph on the affair. First, it poured on the condemnation, decrying him as “an egregious falsifier and a wholesale betrayer of simple confidences.” But the Times recognized that there was more to Ponzi. “There was something picturesque, something suggestive of the gallant about him, and it is almost possible, though not quite, to believe that he was as credulous as his victims and deceived himself as much as he did them,”MoreLess
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