BUTNER, N.C., Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Disgraced U.S. financier Bernard Madoff was hospitalized in prison due to dizziness and hypertension, prison officials say.
A spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons said Madoff, serving a 150-year sentence in a Butner, N.C., facility after pleading guilty to orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, was moved to the medium security jail's medical wing Friday after experiencing dizziness, The Wall Street Journal reported.