Bernie Madoff, the financier who orchestrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, has died. He was 82.
He died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed, where he had been serving out a 150-year sentence.
As a money manager, Madoff defrauded thousands of investors out of tens of billions of dollars. The former NASDAQ chairman pleaded guilty to 11 criminal counts in 2009, at the age of 71.
His lawyer had filed a motion for compassionate release in February 2020, saying Madoff was suffering from end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions, with a life expectancy of less than 18 months.
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