Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff dead at 82
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Aaron Nicodemus2021-04-14T18:58:00
Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, whose decades-long fraud swindled thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, died in federal prison Wednesday.
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