Giordano (Repug CT jailed mayor) wants pay for unused sick, vacation days

[kskiska]

Phil Giordano wants Waterbury to show him the money. In a neatly handwritten letter to city officials from his cell at Garner Correctional Facility in Newtown, the former Waterbury mayor and convicted sex offender is asking the city to pay him $61,000 for vacation, sick and personal time never used while he was in office.

It's a thought that has many people in the Brass City shaking their heads.

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Even though he's locked up, serving a 37 year prison sentence in connection with sexually abusing two pre-teens, Giordano says he saved up 13 weeks vacation, 99 sick days and 27 personal days during his three terms in office. He figures that totals $61,000 and he wants the city to pay up.

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Giordano was convicted in 2003 after federal agents got him on tape paying the prostitute who arranged for him to have sexual contact with the young girls. Some of those sexual encounters happened right in his city hall office.

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[danalytical]

1. I think he's Democrat

If I remember correctly Giordano was a Dem.

[maddezmom]

3. nope a republican

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/10/edi030005.html

[calico1]

5. He is a Repug.

He ran against Lieberman the last time.

[Tuttle]

10. Rule of thumb

when they don't mention the party affiliation, you can bet it's Repuke!

Tut-tut

[ljm2002]

11. Please do your homework next time...

...before making such a misinformed statement regarding a charged case like this. Sheesh.

Phil Giordano is a Republican. As poster Tuttle notes, the rule of thumb is as follows: if the party affiliation of an offender is not mentioned, odds are they are Republican.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Looks as if you need to have your memory refreshed on this subject!

As DU'ers have known for ages, he is a prime REPUBLICAN:

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"This case is the worst I have ever seen," said U.S. District Judge Alan Nevas in passing sentence. "Your conduct is the worst I have ever seen. I've seen drug dealers, murderers. What you did is indescribable."

Nevas also noted that Giordano did not speak during the sentencing hearing.

"Most defendants have something to say, if nothing more than to turn and look at your mother and your sister and say, 'I'm sorry.'"

Nevas said Giordano had been "preying on two small, innocent children."

"They knew nothing. You, sir, are a sexual predator."

Giordano also was convicted in March of conspiring with a prostitute, who is the mother of one of the girls and an aunt of the other. Jurors convicted him on 14 of 15 counts of using an interstate device -- a cell phone -- to arrange the meetings with the girls.

Prosecutors said that Giordano used his cellular phone -- an interstate device -- to set up liaisons with the children and a convicted prostitute, Guitana Jones. Jones pleaded guilty to federal charges and testified at Giordano's federal trial. SURVEY

The girls also testified against the mayor. Prosecutor Peter Jongbloed, who portrayed Giordano as a corrupt liar during his closing arguments, pointed out that Giordano has acknowledged having sex with a prostitute and taking payoffs from contractors.

The FBI was investigating municipal corruption -- a probe it labeled "Operation LandPhil" -- when it stumbled upon phone calls in which Giordano set up meetings with Jones, her daughter and her niece. Neither Giordano nor anyone else has been charged with corruption.

On one of the taped conversations, Giordano talks with Jones while his sons can be heard in the background playing. On another call, Giordano told her, "I want one of the little girls."

On their last recorded conversation, Giordano warns the woman: "If my name gets mentioned, you might as well put a knife through your throat and kill yourself."
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From NBC30.com
New Haven Hartford Waterbury New London
Connecticut News

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/Giordano.htm



REPUBLICAN Philip Giordano

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Whatever came over you to volunteer the information you believe he's a Democrat? Nice try!

[CTyankee]

2. Talk about chutzpah! Geez, this guy takes the cake.

37 years is not long enough for this guy to remain in the cooler. Talk about scum of the earth!

I remember when this happened and I was so mad. It makes me mad all over again to read this.

[calico1]

6. Wasn't he also involved in some

embezzling? If anything, he probably owes Waterbury money!

[theanarch]

8. well, not really...

...i suspect there's more to his sentence than 37 years...compared to the boodle the Dukester got 8 years for, Giordano's haul must have been considerably larger...which means big-time restitution, penalties and fines...with interest. Throw in legal fees, lost income and on-going family obligations, wouldn't surprise me that he's hurting for some cash right about now. If his sentencing did not specificly call for a forfiture of job-related benefits, he may well have enough legal standing to seek some amount of monetary compensation for these items. Whether he deserves them or not is a completely separate matter.

[nodehopper]

15. uh, he was also soliciting preteens for sexual activities

[theanarch]

16. i'm not testifying to the ethics of the man...

...as he doesn't appear to have any...i'm simply pointing out that there may be a legal basis for his claim, and this will probably be decided by the courts, who will rule by established precident (if any), or make something up on the merits. All i can say, whether he deserves to collect or not, SHOULD he be allowed to, blame the prosecutors for not including that forfiture in their stipulations.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Fine pay him at the rate of his new job in jail

which is somewhere around $0.62/hour.

[soothsayer]

7. He should get paid for his unused vacation, not his use or lose

sick leave (unless they have an absence policy that lets you get paid out for either, in which case, he's right)

[gratuitous]

9. $61,000 should go into the victims' compensation fund very nicely

Make sure Mr. Giordano gets every cent of compensation he figures is due him, and then make sure he's billed and pays for his trial, his incarceration, and his share of the victims' compensation fund if Connecticut has any such thing. As long as all the money goes somewhere besides Giordano's pocket or family, I'd contemplate giving him a bonus on top of it.

[merwin]

12. Are you allowed to get your leave paid to you if you get fired?

That seems odd...

[melissinha]

14. yes you do

being fired or resigning are no different, you get your balance. People who are let go are sometimes given severance.

[melissinha]

13. I'm in Time Collection, he gets vacation, not sick

I am not so sure about incarceration but I would imagine that he would be entitled to his banked vacation. When you resign or terminated you are not entitled to sick time. That is if vacation and sick are separate balances, if its only vacation/personal/sick lumped together, I can imagine that he would be entitled to the entire balance

Even employees that have passed away get their vacation balances (their heirs do).

[Judi Lynn]

19. This case seems to feel like an exception, in that he USED the

job he promised to attend faithfully and honorably on behalf of the people as a crime scene, doing unspeakable, unforgiveable things to children.

He broke faith with his employers, the citizens, didn't meet his obligations to that job. He took advantage of the voters, and of the children.

[melissinha]

20. well it depends on whether vacation is banked vacation or

given up front. I am not familiar with the rules when it comes to getting vacation up front....

Banked vacation that a person has earned though service is one thing.... not giving much service and expecting to be paid for vacation that he would be granted during his "service" is another.

I see what you mean I want Bush and his cabal to pay back all the money they have earned through war-profiteering and then some for bankrupting the treasury, I would sure like to see Barbara Bush in soup kitchen! Then she's real see what its like....

[xultar]

18. Call me crazy but he is entitled if he was in office and not suspended.

Why is this even a news story?