Bernie Madoff, a prisoner who had been serving the largest financial fraud in American history at the time of his discovery, died on the 14th in a federal prison in southern North Carolina at the age of 82.
A huge fraud case by Madoff, who ran a securities company, was discovered in the wake of the 2008 Lehman shock.
For many years, he used the so-called "mouse lecture" method to deceive large amounts of money from clients, taking advantage of his high profile as the former chairman of the company that operates the stock exchange Nasdaq.
The victims are not only general investors but also celebrities, financial institutions in Europe, the United States, and Japan, and the total damage is said to exceed 6 trillion yen in Japanese yen. It was crowded.
Former Chairman Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, but died on the 14th in a federal prison in North Carolina at the age of 82.
The cause of death was unknown, but according to federal prisons, the sentence was up to 2137.