Welcome Home, Bernie: Madoff Enters Prison
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrived at a federal prison in North Carolina on Tuesday to start serving an 150-year sentence behind bars.
The elderly Madoff left a penitentiary in Atlanta only a day after being transferred there Monday from a federal jail in New York City.
Madoff has a projected release date of November 14, 2139, assuming he gets early release credit for good behavior while in prison. He is listed in Bureau of Prisons records as prisoner number 61727-054.
The 71-year-old Madoff pleaded guilty in March to charges that his investment advisory business was a multibillion-dollar scheme that wiped out thousands of investors and ruined charities.
Authorities said Madoff had carried out the fraud for at least two decades before confessing to his sons in December that his investment business was a fraud and that he had lost as much as $50 billion.
The Butner Federal Correctional Complex, located about 45 miles northwest of Raleigh, includes two medium-security facilities, a low-security facility and a hospital, according to the Bureau of Prisons Web site. Within the federal prison system, it is perhaps best known for its hospital facility to treat elderly or ill prisoners.
Among the well-known criminals being held at Butner are: