US Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies

By Jonathan Stempel and Bill Trott
Updated April 15 2021 - 1:19am, first published 12:08am
Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff has died in prison at 82.
Disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff has died in prison at 82.

Bernard Madoff, the financier who was convicted for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died in a US federal prison while serving a 150-year sentence, the Bureau of Prisons says.

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