Carl J. Shapiro, one of Boston's most generous philanthropists and longtime benefactor of Brandeis University, has passed away at the age of 108.
Shapiro, who was an unknowing victim of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, reportedly losing $545 million, used the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation to support many worthy causes, including hospitals, the arts, culture, higher education, and local charitable endeavours in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts and in Palm Beach, Florida where he and his late wife Ruth also lived.
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