Crime / Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Madoff Won't Appeal Conman resigned to life in prison By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff Posted Jul 9, 2009 2:59 PM CDT Copied Building manager and leasing agent Russell Freeman walks through the empty office space in New York onced used by convicted financier Bernard Madoff Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) Bernie Madoff will do his time, his lawyer said today. The 71-year-old con man sentenced to 150 years in prison on a slew of fraud charges related to his massive Ponzi scheme won’t file an appeal, Bloomberg reports. “In terms of the appeal, done, over,” Madoff’s attorney Ira Sorkin said today. (More Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities stories.) Report an error