| Welcome to The Wall Street Journal's email series on some of the most shocking financial crimes in U.S. history. We dug through the Journal's archives to let you relive some of the biggest corporate misdeeds of the past 100+ years. You'll receive one email a week describing all the juicy details of a specific crime, with highlights from the Journal's coverage. Over the next seven weeks, you'll read about: - A con man so infamous his name instantly became synonymous with a certain type of scam, and another who was able to continue his criminal streak by changing his name entirely
- A man who came to symbolize the $200 billion collapse of an entire sector, and one whose story was truly "ins-a-a-a-ne"
- A company that survived a 1930s accounting scandal only to find history repeating itself three-quarters of a century later
- The world's biggest Ponzi scheme
- What one New York prosecutor called "the largest bank fraud in world financial history"
- Enron (duh)
We chose these crimes because they were some of the biggest financial frauds of their era, affecting large numbers of people and leading to sweeping legal and regulatory changes. Alleged billion-dollar financial frauds continue to make headlines (ahem, FTX). We hope this journey through the Journal's pages will provide some context, a dash of entertainment and perhaps a lesson. The first stop on our time machine: Boston, 1919. —Brenda León and Liz Webber | 
