Many prominent Jewish nonprofits suffered major losses in the fraud.
He had previously asked Trump to commute his sentence, but the president has yet to act.
Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, for his $19 billion Ponzi scheme.
Another $464 million has been paid out to victims of Bernie Madoff’s $19 billion Ponzi scheme, bringing the total distributions in the case to more than $12 billion.
The trustee has estimated that the customers lost $17.5 billion in Madoff's fraud, which was uncovered in December 2008.
It’s been a decade since Bernie Madoff’s arrest stunned Wall Street and sent the Jewish world reeling.
According to CNN, FCI Otisville serves kosher foods such as matzah ball soup, gefilte fish and rugelach, in part because of its “proximity to New York’s sizable Jewish population.”
The distribution is the second in a series of payments that will eventually return over $4 billion to Madoff victims.
'Wonder Woman' will be competing in the category against 'Baby Driver', 'Dunkirk', 'Logan' and 'War for the Planet of the Apes.'
'Foxtrot' fails to get a nod in best foreign language film category.
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