Shana Diane Madoff, sometimes referred to as Shana Madoff Skoller Swanson, is an American former attorney who is a yoga teacher.
14 Facts About Shana Madoff
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Shana Madoff 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 from 1995 until 2008.
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Shana Diane Madoff was born in Queens, New York, in 1967, and grew up in Woodbury on the North Shore of Long Island.
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Shana Madoff graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992, and from Fordham Law School in 1995.
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Shana Madoff was a rules and compliance officer and in-house counsel at BLMIS, a significant senior officer position for which she collected millions of dollars.
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Shana Madoff was responsible for ensuring that BLMIS complied with its legal and regulatory obligations, signing documents assuring the SEC that BLMIS's business records were truthful and accurate.
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Shana Madoff was a compliance officer and attorney for Cohmad Securities, which was co-owned by her uncle and helped bring investors to BLMIS.
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Shana Madoff is married to Eric Swanson, an attorney and a former Assistant Director of the Office of Compliance Investigations and Examinations at the SEC, the securities regulator, whom she met in April 2003.
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In February 2006, Swanson was emailed by Assistant Director John Nee that the SEC's New York Regional Office was investigating a complaint that Bernard Shana Madoff might be running "the biggest Ponzi scheme ever".
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In 2009, after the scandal broke, SEC Inspector General H David Kotz investigated, and concluded that there was no evidence that Swanson's romantic relationship with Shana Madoff influenced the closing of the SEC investigation of her uncle.
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Swanson and Shana Madoff became engaged on December 8,2006.
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In 2008, Bernard Shana Madoff spoke at a business roundtable meeting of his "very close" relationship with an SEC lawyer, and chuckled: "my niece even married one".
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Shana Madoff called the claim baseless, and said she had no knowledge of the scheme.
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Shana Madoff is a lawyer; lawyers don't get the benefit of the doubt.