Mealey's (June 8, 2020, 2:10 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Ruling that nothing that has occurred in the 11 years since Bernard L. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for orchestrating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that would persuade him to lower Madoff’s prison sentence, a federal judge in New York on June 4 denied Madoff’s request for compassionate release from federal prison (United States of America v. Bernard L. Madoff, No. 09-cr-213, S.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98293)....