CNN.com and numerous other sources confirm that Bernard Madoff, an early candidate for Greatest Con Artist of the 21st Century, was sentenced today to 150 years in prison — more than ten times his remaining life expectancy — by a federal judge who rubbed salt in the wound by labeling Madoff’s actions “extraordinarily evil” just in case Madoff had any concerns about being coddled.

For his part, Madoff faced the courtroom and apologized for skillfully stealing billions of dollars from other upper-class billionaires, money that could have been spent feeding entire impoverished planets, making an interest payment on the American federal deficit, or financing even larger explosions in the next Transformers sequel.

According to The Bloomberg Report, his final resting place remains under deliberation as of this writing, although the severity of his sentence may disqualify him from the comfiest minimum-security resorts.

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