承认策划了美国历史上最大的欺诈案的麦道夫，被法庭判处150年徒刑。现年71岁的麦道夫的律师说，他的当事人“应会在狱中度过他的余生”。
数以千计的人在麦道夫的投资骗局中赔了钱，其中一些人在星期一的法庭判决中出庭作证。一些人满腔愤怒，一些人泪流满面，很多人说，麦道夫从经济上把他们毁灭了，要求法官判处他长期徒刑。
麦道夫曾声称，他能通过精明的投资，获取超过市场收益的利润，以此诱惑投资者相信他的诡计。事实上，麦道夫用新投资者的资金支付原有投资者，给受害者一种假象，认为他们获取了巨额利润。
The man who confessed to organizing the largest fraud in U.S. history, Bernard Madoff, has been sentenced to 150 years in prison. The lawyer for the 71-year-old Madoff says his client “expects to live out his years in prison.”
Thousands of people lost money in the investment scheme, and some of them testified at Monday’s hearing. Some spoke in great anger, others tearfully, and many said Madoff ruined them financially and urged the judge to give him a long prison term.
Madoff lured investors into his scheme by claiming he was delivering market-beating results through shrewd investing. Instead, he was paying off old investors with funds from new investors, giving the victims the false impression that they were making significant profits.