Bernie Madoff made 24 cents an hour in a federal prison

By the time Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff died of kidney failure, the man who bilked unsuspecting people out of billions of dollars had accumulated a nest egg of just $710 for almost 3,000 hours of work as a prison orderly.

Madoff had served 12 years of a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina when he died in prison at 82 in April.  Details of Madoff's life behind bars were first reported by The City, an online not-for-profit news organization that obtained his Federal Bureau of Prisons file. According to the outlet's review of the documents, Madoff left behind a modest stockpile that included eight AAA batteries, four religious paperbacks, a Casio calculator, four packages of popcorn, a packet of ramen soup and a box of gefilte fish.