Federal Bureau of Prisons says Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has passed away
By Jonathan Stempel and Bill Trott
FILE PHOTO: Accused swindler Madoff exits the Manhattan federal court house in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bernard Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in federal prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence, the Bureau of Prisons said. He was 82.
Madoff had been suffering from chronic kidney failure and several other medical ailments.
He had been held at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, after being sentenced in June 2009 to a 150-year term for engineering a fraud estimated as high as $64.8 billion.