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Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Jr. (1851–1925), known first as the "Young Napoleon of Finance," and subsequently as "the Best-Hated Man in the United States," was an American swindler. The collapse of his Ponzi scheme caused the financial ruin of many people, including famous persons such as Thomas Nast and the former U.S. President ...
14 de may. de 2020 · Great frauds in history: the downfall of Ferdinand Ward – the "Napoleon of finance". Ferdinand Ward launched a Ponzi-style scheme based on fictitious government contracts, bringing down the...
30 de ago. de 2013 · Ferdinand Ward ran what came to be called, 40 years later, a ‘ Ponzi scheme ’, a swindle as old certainly as financial instruments and probably as greed. He promised investors improbable returns from unlikely investments, in Ward’s case government procurement contracts.
Now out of the obscurity that for a quarter of a century has surrounded him, comes Ferdinand Ward, the second central figure of the Grant & Ward crash, the one who was selected by the public as the object of reprisal, to tell the story for the first time of the intimacies that existed between himself and General Grant.
23 de abr. de 2013 · Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather’s rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace, in a...
9 de dic. de 2016 · Bird explained that Nast painted it after he fell victim to a cruel Ponzi scheme, perpetrated by Ferdinand Ward, a young and ambitious financier. In 1880 Ward established a brokerage firm that led to the ruin of many investors, and he went on to serve nearly seven years in prison for fraud.
23 de abr. de 2013 · A New York Times Notable Book The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward. Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor ...
