Bernie Madoff, Wall Street financier and Ponzi scheme organizer, has died at age 82 bwinck@businessinsider.com (Ben Winck,Kelly McLaughlin) © Stephen Chernin/Getty Images Financier Bernard Madoff arrives at Manhattan Federal court on March 12, 2009 in New York City. Madoff is scheduled to enter a guilty plea on 11 felony counts which under federal law can result in a sentence of about 150 years. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images
Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street financier-turned-Ponzi scheme kingpin, has died of natural causes, aged 82, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
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He is survived by his wife, Ruth Madoff.
Born in New York City in 1938, Madoff founded a stock brokerage in 1960 that eventually became Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. The firm specialized in over-the-counter penny stocks, using pink sheet quotes to make markets for traders. Madoff s brokerage then moved on to computerized trades, employing an information technolog
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