New York, United States.
the exfinancer Bernie Madoff, condemned a 150 years to perpetrate the biggest pyramidal scam of the history of Wall Street, mUrio in one United States Federal Prison at the age of 82, several American media reported this Wednesday.
Madoff, who in 2009 pleaded guilty to fraud $ 50 billion, Had requested last year to leave the prison because he suffered one kidney disease in terminal phase, but his request had been denied.
According to authorities, who have not specified the reason for his death, the exfinancer die at the Butner Federal Medical Center, in North Carolina, a penitentiary facility for prisoners with health problems.
Madoff went from being one of the most prestigious Wall Street figures to a whole symbol of the worst stock market practices after uncovering the giant fraud dand investments which operated for years and ended up costing billions a large and small investors.
The financier developed a fraudulent system that promised high returns and that he paid the first investors with the amounts he raised from the last to rely on his management, one pyramidal scam which according to authorities could have caused losses of some $ 65 billion to customers around the world.
After more than a decade, the victims they still follow recovering money thanks to the liquidation of his signature and the work of the American Justice.
Always operating with secrecy i cultivating at all times an air of exclusivity, Madoff attracted to his signature to well-known figures of many fields, from the filmmaker Steven Spielberg to the owners of equipment baseball i American Football or to big business.
Madoff was arrested in December of 2008 and three months later it plead guilty of eleven economic crimes that sent him to life imprisonment, with a sentence of 150 years in prison.
“I am very sorry and I am deeply penedit “, said the investor in admitting his guilt in federal district court in southern Manhattan, where he admitted that “that day had to come.”
Madoff, who came to preside over the Nasdaq market, had started his career in the world of investing in the 22 years old, according to him, when opening a company with the $ 5,000 who won as lifebuoy in a summer job.
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His business prospered until he became one of the great actors of Wall Street and turned this New Yorker from a working-class neighborhood into an extremely respected figure in thes financial circlesif in a member of the high society of the Big Apple.
Born in 1938 in the district of Queens, Madoff studied a year at the University of Alabama and graduated in political science in 1960 from Hofstra, New York, in addition to attending Brooklyn Law School for a year.
Robert De Niro brought it to life in 2017 on the HBO movie “The Wizard of Lies”, In which Michelle Pfeiffer played his wife Ruth. EFE