Madoff fails to win release from prison

By Jonathan Stempel
Updated June 5 2020 - 7:21am, first published 7:18am
Berie Madoff committed "one of the egregious financial crimes of our time", a US judge says.
Berie Madoff committed "one of the egregious financial crimes of our time", a US judge says.

A federal judge has rejected Bernard Madoff's request to be released early from prison because he was dying of kidney failure, saying the swindler has never fully accepted responsibility for his massive, decades-long Ponzi scheme.

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