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Bernard L. Madoff, the notorious financier who pulled off history’s biggest swindle and came to epitomize Wall Street corruption as the economy plunged into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, died of natural causes while serving a 150-year prison sentence, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. He was 82.
Suffering from kidney failure, hypertension and heart problems, Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., apparently from natural causes, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
Last year, Madoff’s lawyers filed court papers to try to get the 82-year-old released from prison due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The request was denied.