IT WAS RARE for Bernard Madoff to invite anyone to his investment-advisory office. Almost all the employees in his brokerage firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, were kept out of that part, and had no idea what went on inside. The door was locked. Like his other offices, it was immaculate, with a starkly modernist decor of black, white and grey. When he caught one of his employees eating a pear there, dripping juice onto the grey carpet tiles, he immediately ripped out the stained tile and laid another. No sloppiness allowed. He set the tone himself, in a Savile Row suit with his wedding ring, gold or platinum, exactly matched to the wristband of his vintage watch of the day. All was done with elaborate care, including the handling of other people's money. A very simple scheme ensured that, come what may, his private clients received compound average annual returns of a steady 15% on their investments. It worked so well that despite the recession of the early 1990s, the financial crisis of 1998 and the September uth attacks, savings sent to him inexorably grew, as if by magic.
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机译：Bernard Madoff非常罕见地邀请任何人进入他的投资咨询办公室。几乎所有员工都在他的经纪公司Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities，并不是没有想到里面发生了什么。门被锁定了。像他的其他办公室一样，它非常完美，黑色，白色和灰色的明显现代主义装饰。当他抓住他的一个员工时，在那里吃梨，将汁液滴在灰色地毯瓷砖上，他立即撕掉了染色的瓷砖并铺设了另一个。不允许邋..他在一个野蛮的行套装中撒上了尊重的戒指，金色或铂金，与当天的老式观察的腕带完全匹配。所有人都是用精心的照顾完成的，包括处理别人的钱。一项非常简单的计划确保了，到了可能，他的私人客户在投资中获得了稳定的15％的复合平均年度返回。它的工作方式很好，尽管20世纪90年代初期的经济衰退，但1998年的金融危机和九月的Uth袭击，储蓄送给他不可理解的成长，仿佛魔术。
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