According to his death certificate, Bernie Madoff died of kidney disease, high blood pressure, and plaque formation in his arteries.
Atherosclerosis, hardening and narrowing of the arteries, and aortic stenosis, a valve disease, contributing to the death of an 82-year-old Ponzi schemer, according to the document Received by TMZ.
Madoff died on April 14 at the Secure Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, while serving a 150-year sentence for his $ 65 billion plan.
According to his death certificate, he was cremated in Durham, North Carolina.
His epic stock fraud – which came to light in the late 2000s amid the global financial crisis and is believed to be the largest in Wall Street history – left more than 37,000 victims in 136 countries in its wake.
Madoff’s massive scandal was linked to at least four suicides, including his elder son, Mark, who hanged himself on the second anniversary of the fraudster’s 2008 arrest and left behind a bitter note.
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