Bernie Madoff's secretary talks about disgraced boss/ Bernie Madoff Liked Escorts, Massages, And

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http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/05/bernie-madoffs-secretary-talks-about-her-disgraced-boss.html

Eleanor Squillari, Bernie Madoff's longtime secretary, says that in the days leading up to his arrest, she once found him lying on the floor staring up at the ceiling, according to a lengthy article inVanity Fair.

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**Eleanor Squillari would tell people who walked by his office and saw him staring into space that he "seems to be in a coma.” At one point, Madoff began taking his blood-pressure every 15 minutes and refused to look at his mail.

**The staff on the 17th floor, where the Ponzi scheme was conducted, “were mostly low-level, clerical women, many of them working mothers, who probably made no more than $40,000 a year. They were young and naïve, with no background in finance, so they weren’t able to connect the dots.”

**Following Madoff's arrest, his wife, Ruth Madoff, called Squillari multiple times and encouraged her to provide certain information without notifying the bankruptcy trustees, which Squillari said she couldn’t do.

**Squillari believes Madoff meticulously planned out the particulars of his arrest and even wanted to FBI to find his appointment book that he left on his desk



http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-madoff-liked-escorts-massages-and-patting-his-secretary-on-her-ass-2009-5

Bernie Madoff Liked Escorts, Massages, And Patting His Secretary On Her Ass


http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/ponzi-king-madoffs-secretary-reveals-his-lust-for-ladies-and-money_100189032.html
He would sometimes schedule a “massage” in the middle of a working day and claim he was merely taking a walk, Squillari said.

“He’d return an hour or so later, always in a much better mood,” she said.

Squillari told Vanity Fair that Madoff would playfully “try to pat me on the ass” and say, “You know it excites you” when he would exit his office bathroom while still zipping his fly.

He’d add, “Oh, you know you’re crazy about me,” she said.

“He liked to find your weak spot and poke at you with his sarcastic humor. He had to take everything way too far,” the annoyed secretary said.

Madoff — who frequently used to refer to himself as “one of the most powerful men on Wall Street” — got downright “nasty” when stress got to him, Squillari said. “You look terrible . . . You’re gaining weight . . . You’re stupid,” Madoff would sneer to workers, according to Squillari.

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1. “You know it excites you” when he would exit his office bathroom while still zipping his fly.

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Madoff Used Firm Funds for Worker, Family Expenses
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8x0ApC7C.rE&refer=home

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2. In the Name of Venality

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/06/graydon200906

Speaking of which, in the half-year since Bernard Madoff became the most reviled financial mind of our day—a title for which there has been fevered competition on Wall Street—there is still precious little we know about him as a man, as a husband, father, and boss. Mark Seal’s article “Madoff’s World,” in our April issue, opened a window into the con man’s operation and manner, but this month, in collaboration with Eleanor Squillari, Seal blows the doors off.

Squillari, a 58-year-old mother of two from Staten Island, contacted Seal just after our April issue had shipped to the printer. He had called her in connection with his first Madoff story, and when she finally telephoned him back, she told him that he was the only reporter who had attempted to reach her. She had worked as Madoff’s secretary for more than 20 years, and after having spent two months helping the F.B.I. gather evidence against her former boss, she was ready to tell her story.

Squillari’s remarkable first-person account, “Hello, Madoff!” finally reveals what Madoff was really like and how his business operated. She says he began acting strangely in the fall of 2008—refusing to look at his mail, taking his blood pressure every 15 minutes, meeting constantly with the heads of his “feeder” funds. Squillari knew something was wrong, but nothing could have prepared her for his arrest, on December 11—and the revelations about the monumental scale of his fraud. Recalling that day and the one before it, she offers compelling details about Madoff’s behavior—and that of his wife, Ruth. Squillari believes, for instance, that he staged everything about his arrest.

Nearly as revealing as Squillari’s tale are the photos of Madoff and his family that accompany the story. They were collected from numerous sources, and, dating from the 70s onward, they paint nothing so much as a portrait of the banality of evil. With Madoff’s sentence to come down this month, and with the repercussions of his fraud continuing to be felt, this intimate look inside his office and his mind allows us to more fully comprehend the crime and the criminal so emblematic of the way we have been living for the past decade and a half, and, indeed, of our current economic state.