Shana Madoff
Shana Madoff | |
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| Born | Shana Diane Madoff December 8, 1967 Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Shana Madoff Skoller Swanson |
| Education | University of Michigan Fordham Law School |
| Occupation(s) | Rules and compliance officer and attorney, yoga teacher |
| Years active | 1995–2008 |
| Employer | Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities |
| Known for | Compliance officer/attorney at uncle Bernard Madoff's firm, which engaged in the largest financial fraud in U.S. history |
| Spouse | Eric Swanson |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent | Peter Madoff (father) |
Shana Diane Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɔːf/ MAY-doff; born December 8, 1967), sometimes referred to as Shana Madoff Skoller Swanson, is an American former attorney who is now a yoga teacher.
She is the daughter of Peter Madoff, and a niece of Bernie Madoff, who employed her as a compliance officer and attorney at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities (BLMIS) from 1995 until 2008. In December 2008 BLMIS was discovered to be a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and closed as part of the Madoff investment scandal. Her uncle Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for the scheme, and her father, who was her boss at the company and the chief compliance officer, was sentenced to ten years in prison.
In 2007, she married Eric Swanson, a former Assistant Director of the Office of Compliance Investigations and Examinations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She and Swanson met originally in April 2003 when the SEC performed an inadequate examination as to whether Bernie Madoff was front running customer orders—completely missing the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that her own cousins (Bernie's sons) would expose in December 2008.
No criminal charges have ever been filed against her regarding her role at BLMIS. In 2015, U.S. Marshals auctioned 420 lots of assets belonging to Shana Madoff and her father Peter, pursuant to a court order.