Super-swindler Bernie Madoff reportedly swapped pushing Ponzi schemes on rich investors to selling hot-chocolate to fellow inmates.
The notorious wheeler-dealer even ended up cornering the market in hot chocolate at North Carolina's Federal Correctional Institution Butner Medium where he's serving a 150-year prison sentence, says Steve Fishman, host of the new Audible audio series called "Ponzi Supernova."
"At one point, he cornered the hot chocolate market. He bought up every package of Swiss Miss from the commissary and sold it for a profit in the prison yard, Fishman told Marketwatch.
"He monopolized hot chocolate! He made it so that, if you wanted any, you had to go through Bernie."
The 78-year-old conman, who ran a nearly $65 billion Ponzi scheme and pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies in 2009.
With time off for good behavior, Madoff would first be eligible for parole in 2139 — meaning he'd have to live to be 201 in order to be a free man again.
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