who is Bernie Madoff in the day he was a cute old man who enjoyed golfing going on walks to the park looking after his grandkids cheering the NASDAQ nice and running his own hedge fund that night he was the man responsible for the largest pointsy scheme in history oh defrauding investors out tens of billions of dollars really he was sentenced to 150 years in prison and forced to Forfeit 170 billion dollars he was only caught 30 years into the scheme when he was in his 70s guess you could say he really made off with billions okay I'm sorry