Madoff Talks review: definitive life of an ‘extraordinarily evil’ man

Jim Campbell exchanged hundreds of emails and letters with the financier whose crimes brought him a 150-year sentence

When Bernie Madoff died in April, at 82, he was serving a 150-year sentence. His fraud topped $17.5bn. The investors who trusted him were many and varied. Many went bankrupt, many lost their homes, some were driven to suicide. At sentencing, judge Denny Chin called Madoff's crimes extraordinarily evil". He was not mourned. One investor announced: Death is too good for him."

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