Bernie Madoff, the disgraced and imprisoned Ponzi schemer, died in prison.
The 82-year-old, who was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison in 2009 for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press.
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