Madoff with the Money (43 page)

After his arrest, but before he was ordered confined to his penthouse and later sent to jail, the most reviled crook in America had the freedom to walk the streets, with an enigmatic trademark smirk on his face. He is seen here walking down Lexington Avenue to return to his Manhattan apartment.

Source: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow.

Bernard Madoff leaves U.S. District Court in Manhattan escorted by U.S. Marshals after a bail hearing in New York, January 5, 2009. Under that black raincoat and suit jacket is a bulletproof vest because prosecutors and his lawyers feared Bernie might be the target of a furious, deranged investor as he leaves court after pleading guilty to eleven criminal counts, and claiming he pulled off his mind-boggling fraud alone, which no one believed was possible.

Source: AP Photo/Kathy Willens.

The dapper tight-lipped swindler lost in thought before he went to jail to spend the rest of his natural born days. The 150 years to which he was sentenced was symbolic, since at 71 he was believed to have about a dozen years left to live.

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