{"id":10926,"date":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"madoff-gets-150-years-for-massive-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/madoff-gets-150-years-for-massive-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Madoff gets 150 years for massive fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Bernard Madoff was sentenced on Monday to 150 years in prison &#8212; the maximum penalty the judge could give him for &quot;extraordinarily evil&quot; crimes in Wall Street&#8217;s biggest and most brazen investment fraud.       <\/p>\n<p>Fleeced investors in the courtroom cheered and applauded as the judge handed down the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Madoff, 71, stood passively with his hands clasped at his waist, showing no reaction when he heard the sentence that will send him to prison for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bw_rss\/investor\/~4\/ZX3pyuxGFcU\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKLNE55T02A20090630\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/investor\/content\/jun2009\/pi20090628_268277.htm?campaign_id=rss_null\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Bernard Madoff was sentenced on Monday to 150 years in prison &#8212; the maximum penalty the judge could give him for &quot;extraordinarily evil&quot; crimes in Wall Street&#8217;s biggest and most brazen investment fraud. Fleeced investors in the courtroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4331,5316,8968,9292,4504,13656,4326,4464],"class_list":["post-10926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-courtroom","tag-crimes","tag-investment-fraud","tag-investors","tag-maximum-penalty","tag-reuters","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}