Madoff starts 150-year sentence at NC prison (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Tue, 07/14/2009 - 2:18pm

Prisoners are unloaded at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., Tuesday, July 14, 2009.<br /><br />Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been moved out of a New York lockup to this North Carolina facility. (AP Photo/Chuck Liddy, Raleigh News & Observer)AP - Bernard Madoff's life of luxury is a thing of the past.

The disgraced financier blamed for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history arrived Tuesday at a federal prison in North Carolina to begin a 150-year sentence in a cell with two bunk beds, a toilet and a sink.




 

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