The documentary “In God We Trust” follows the Bernie Madoff scandal through the eyes of his longtime personal secretary, Eleanor Squillari. The film will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on Friday, and Speakeasy has an exclusive clip of Squillari describing the firm’s mysterious 17th floor. “The day after Bernie’s arrest, I noticed that none of the employees from the 17th floor showed up for work that morning, and some never came back again,” Squillari says. She drew detailed floor plans for investigators, which are shown in the clip. “It turns out, Bernie had the entire place designed from scratch to his exact specifications,” Squillari says. A legit trading firm was on the 18th and 19th floors, filled with staff who held MBA degrees and came from other Wall Street firms — including Madoff’s own sons. More in the Wall Street Journal here.
