Samuel Pandolfo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSamuel Pandolfo
American businessman
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1874
Place of Birth: Macon, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 27-Jan-1960
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Samuel Pandolfo
- Samuel Conner Pandolfo (November 22, 1874 – January 27, 1960) was an American businessman most noted for founding the Pan Motor Car Company (1917–1919), and being convicted of fraud in its promotion.
- Pandolfo raised $9.5 million through stock sales and built an automobile plant in St.
- Cloud, Minnesota.
- During the next two years, the plant turned out 737 automobiles and fulfilled numerous U.S.
- government war contracts.
- However, he was found guilty of mail fraud and received a three-year prison sentence in the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth.The government claimed that Pandolfo defrauded the 70,000 stockholders in his company by sending them misleading information.
- Others have countered that Pandolfo was done-in not because of his business practices, but because of his beliefs.
- Pandolfo had the vision to believe that the average person could own shares of stock, and he eagerly sold it to them.
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