Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021 10:24 PM MYT
Bernard Madoff is escorted in a vehicle from Federal Court in New York January 5, 2009. Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, April 14 Bernard Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died today 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 US$64.8 billion (RM268 billion).
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