What investment swindler was sent to the butner federal correctional complex?”
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has been moved out of a New York lockup on his way to a North Carolina facility to begin serving his 150-year sentence, a law enforcement official said Monday. Mr. Madoff is headed to the Butner federal prison, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss prisoner transfers. A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons, Traci Billingsley, would only say late Monday afternoon that Madoff was not at a Bureau of Prisons facility. The bureau does not discuss transfers until prisoners reach their destination. Mr. Madoff’s attorney Ira Sorkin declined comment Monday, saying, “We have not been advised yet.” Mr. Madoff, 71, was sentenced last month after pleading guilty in March to charges that his investment advisory business was a multibillion-dollar scheme that wiped out thousands of investors and ruined charities. Authorities said Mr. Madoff had carried out the fraud for at least two decades
