A protestor stands with a board of "Madoff Stole it" near the courthouse for the sentencing hearing for convicted swindler Bernard Madoff in New York, the United States, June 29, 2009. Bernard Madoff, the 71-year-old former Nasdaq chairman and the mastermind behind the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever, was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday. [Xinhua] |