Madoff Daughter In Law New Book
Leana Eckes
But his daughter-in-law, Stephanie Madoff Mack, the wife of Madoff's oldest son Mark, felt he hadn't suffered enough. Mack wrote him a letter laying out the life he was missing, with details about the young grandchildren -- Mack's daughter Audrey and son Nicholas -- he would never see again.
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.[6][7][8] 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.[9]
In 1997 she married Scott Skoller, a men's clothing store manager from Roslyn, New York, and changed her name to Shana Skoller.[24]Together they had a daughter, Rebecca, before divorcing.[citation needed]
Bernie and Ruth had six grandkids: Daniel, 29, and Kate, 26, the children of Mark and Susan Elkin; Anne and Emily, the grown daughters of Andrew and Deborah Anne West; and Audrey, 15, and Nicholas, 13, the offspring of Mark and Stephanie Madoff Mack.
Mark Madoff's wife, Stephanie, sent her stepfather to the couple's home after he e-mailed her at Disney World in Florida, where she was vacationing with their 4-year-old daughter. In the messages, he told her he loved her and that someone should check on their 2-year-old child, Nicholas, police said. He left no suicide note.
A law enforcement official confirmed Mark sent an email to his lawyer urging him to help "take care of my family" and that "no one wants to hear the truth." In an email to his wife, an official said Mark Madoff wrote "I love you" and "...send someone to take care of Nick" -- their 2-year-old son.
Stephanie Madoff contacted her stepfather while she was in Florida on vacation at Disney World with her 4-year-old daughter. She became concerned, the stories say, after she received messages from her husband saying he loved her and someone should check on their 2-year-old son. The boy was asleep in his bedroom when London entered the apartment.
The women, both in their 40s, are two of five daughters of Walter Noel, who is understood to have lost $7.5bn - earning him the unenvied title of being the biggest victim of the world's biggest fraud.
Two of Mr Noel's daughters have made their homes in London. One of the daughters, Corina, aged 45, is married to Andres Piedrahita, who runs Fairfield's London office. It is likely Mr Piedrahita attracted investors to Fairfield which then put the money into the Madoff fund, essentially a pyramid-selling scam which went undetected for years.
There is no suggestion that Mr Piedrahita is involved in any criminality. The couple are said to divide their time between London and Madrid and previously lived in a townhouse in one of Belgravia's most fashionable squares. They have one daughter, born in London.
Another of Mr Noel's daughters Ariane, 41, lives in one of the smartest streets in Notting Hill with her husband Marco Sodi. Mr Sodi is described as a 'star deal-maker' who heads the London office of the American private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
Mr. GOLDSTEIN: I'm doing all right. I'm trying to look for a job. I'm having trouble finding employment primarily because of my age. And I'm living - we had to sell our home, which was upstate New York and I'm living now with my daughter in California. We're living in one room and he had a nice house before. We had a home that we loved we had to give up. But at this point we've accepted where we are and we're making the best of our situation.
Mr. GOLDSTEIN: Yeah. It's difficult because, for me, I've always been an independent person. I never thought I would have to ask people for money to help me (unintelligible) my life. But I have no choice, and my kids have been fabulous. My daughter is, who we live with, has just been wonderful. And thank God I have my children. Without them I'd have nothing right now.
In early April of 1991, the Bauers allegedly entered into an agreement to sell their home to their daughter, Anne Bauer. On May 31, 1991, a written residential sales contract was executed between the parties and the sale was closed on July 31, 1991. The Bauers claim their daughter Anne asked them to act as her agent to locate and secure a tenant for the west unit of the home. The Bauers leased the west apartment to a new tenant on approximately June 21, 1991.
The statutory exemption applies to dwellings occupied by no more than four families, as long as the owner resides in one of the four units. There is no disagreement between the parties that "no more than four families living independently of each other" occupied the dwelling in question and that Anne Bauer "maintains and occupies one of [the] living quarters." Whether the Bauers owned the property in question at the time the allegedly discriminatory acts occurred is disputed. The Bauers claim they were not the "owners" of the property and are therefore exempt from the Act as their daughter Anne was in the process of purchasing the property at the time of the alleged discriminatory acts.
The Bauers effectively admit in both their initial memorandum and reply brief that their daughter did not own the two-unit home at the time Judy Bauer allegedly refused to rent one of the units to Jan Guider due to her familial status. Defendants' memorandum in support of their motion for summary judgment states: "At all times relevant to these proceedings, Anne Bauer was in the process of purchasing the building from her parents." (Memorandum at 1) (emphasis added). The reply brief states:
The Bauers' alleged discriminatory acts, however, occurred in April of 1991. This was more than one month prior to the written residential sales contract the Bauers entered into with their daughter (May 31, 1991) and approximately three months before the sale was closed and legal ownership of the home was transferred to their daughter (July 15, 1991). While defendants make much of the fact that they had concluded the sale to their daughter before they even knew of Guider's allegations of discrimination, that does not change the fact that the Bauers "owned" the property at the time of the allegedly discriminatory acts and that Anne Bauer was merely one of their tenants.
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