The once-celebrated figure on Wall Street was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Bernie Madoff, the disgraced former financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died, sources confirmed to ABC News.

The 82-year-old died of natural causes while being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, sources said.

Madoff, who had been on dialysis and in a wheel chair, died a “broken man,”