Madoff Protecting Others
May 7th, 2009Via: New Zealand Herald:
Bernard Madoff’s longtime secretary says the disgraced financier is not cooperating with authorities in order to protect others, and that he was a flirtatious boss who frequented massage parlors.
Eleanor Squillari, Madoff’s secretary of more than 20 years, told The Associated Press she thinks her former boss carefully orchestrated his arrest and that he’s protecting others who might have been involved in his multibillion-dollar scheme by not cooperating with investigators. She declined to speculate as to whom he might be protecting.
Squillari said that if she had a chance to speak to Madoff, she would ask him “to do the right thing and to let us know this happened.”
“I just can’t imagine why he’s not cooperating, why he’s saying he did it himself,” she said. “It’s not humanly possible, in my opinion.”
Perhaps he’s not cooperating because he has no desire to see himself and his family being fed feet-first into an industrial-grade baloney-slicer.
Of course he’s protecting others. But this personal secretary of more than 20 years has got to know more than she’s revealing *herself*, unless she’s a complete moron, which is doubtful. Back in the day, I subbed in for 3 months as personal secy to the Corporate Counsel of B&L while his regular secy was on maternity leave. You wouldn’t believe the nefarious shit I found out, as a curious young woman “in the normal course of my duties,” during that short time.
If I remember right Kevin, you called that before Madoff was even news.