eleanor squillari

eleanor squillari

**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.