Madoff Secretary Saw ‘Smug’ IT Guys Exit Closed-Door Meeting
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Two computer programmers accused of aiding Bernard Madoff’s $17 billion Ponzi scheme, and extorting the con man in the process, were seen by his secretary looking “smug” as they left a closed-door meeting with Madoff two years before his 2008 arrest, prosecutors say.
Eleanor Squillari, a receptionist and personal secretary for Madoff from 1984 until his investment firm closed, found the meeting with George Perez and Jerome O’Hara noteworthy because Madoff “had a very low level of technical sophistication” and almost always left his door open during meetings, the U.S. said in a Nov. 1 filing in federal court in Manhattan.