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For other people with the same surname, see Madoff (surname). For the miniseries, see Madoff (miniseries). Bernard Lawrence Bernie Madoff (/ËmeÉªdÉf/; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.
Prison exclusive: Bernie Madoff can't sleep. Ponzi convict Bernard Madoff says he can't sleep at night, haunted by his son's suicide. Bernard Madoff once had billions of dollars, but now he makes $40 a month doing menial prison labor. I used to work as a clerk in the commissary, and now they have me taking care of the telephone and the computer systems, said Madoff, speaking by phone from a federal prison in North Carolina.