Eleanor Squillari, Bernie Madoff’s former personal secretary, tells the TODAY Show that she believes Madoff is protecting people. Squillari said that by 2005, “Bernie and [wife] Ruth were on top of the world and had begun spending money at the rate they never had before.” She also believes that Madoff, a maticulous planner, also staged his arrest and left behind specific clues that he wanted investigators to find, in order to protect people involved in his scheme.