http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/05/bernie-madoffs-secretary-talks-about-her-disgraced-boss.htmlEleanor 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-2009-5Bernie 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.htmlHe 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.