Speaking of which . . . I present to you Phil Giordano, my law school classmate:
Perv pol asks back pay - Conn. city says no way
BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Talk about nerve.
The former mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who is serving decades in prison for having sex with little girls, is demanding thousands of dollars in back pay.
Ex-Mayor Philip Giordano wants the city to pay $61,000 to cover 13 weeks of unused vacation, 99 sick days and 27 personal days from the years before he was busted in 2001, the Republican-American newspaper reported.
"Kindly consider this correspondence a formal demand for payment," Giordano, 43, wrote from the Garner Correctional Facility in Newtown, where he is inmate No. 292935.
The pervert's payoff demand got a cool reception from Sheila O'Malley, chief of staff to current Mayor Michael Jarjura.
"We're not obligated to give him sick time, and therefore we wouldn't even entertain this idea," O'Malley said.
Former Mayor Edward D. Bergin Jr. said the leaders of the faded industrial city should toss Giordano's letter in the trash.
"It's outrageous," Bergin said.
Giordano was first elected in 1995 and was near the end of his third term when federal agents investigating corruption allegations stumbled onto bizarre sex accusations.
The married mayor was eventually convicted of paying a woman to allow him to have sex with her two daughters, ages 8 and 10.
The revolting trysts often took place in Giordano's offices and went on for nearly a year. He was convicted and is now serving a 37-year prison term.
In an unusual deal cut after his arrest, the city agreed to pay Giordano half his salary until his third term expired and keep his health benefits current as well.