Claim: Bernard Madoff employed his niece Shana as his firm's rules and compliance officer.

Shana Diane Madoff , sometimes referred to as Shana Madoff Skoller Swanson , -LRB- born December 8 , 1967 -RRB- is an American attorney who is now a yoga teacher .   She is the daughter of Peter Madoff , and a niece of Bernard Madoff , who employed her as a compliance officer and the attorney at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities -LRB- BLMIS -RRB- 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 10 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 -LRB- SEC -RRB- . 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 multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme that her own cousins -LRB- Bernie 's sons -RRB- would expose in December 2008 .   No criminal charges have ever been filed against her for her potential role in the Madoff investment scandal . In 2015 , U.S. Marshals auctioned 420 lots of assets belonging to Shana Madoff and her father Peter , pursuant to a court order .