Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison aged 82
Bernie Madoff, whose $65 billion ($A84bn) Ponzi scheme made him one of the world’s most hated criminals and destroyed even his own family, died on Wednesday at the secure federal medical centre in Butner, North Carolina, where he was serving a 150-year sentence, according to prison officials.
The 82-year-old financier, who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease and other chronic ailments, died of natural causes.