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A tangled web

Dec 6, 2007 4:48 PM

Susan Wagner HS Principal Gary Giordano is accused of telling teachers who did the whistle-blowing that they will “pay.”

The principal of Susan Wagner HS is at the center of the Regents investigation — as well as many other things. 

Gary Giordano, who is married to one of the administrators accused of wrongdoing in the scandal, has been paid per-session monies on top of his regular salary.

Over the last five years, he has received more than $17,000 in per-session monies. Some of those payments were approved by Nancy Ramos, the former local instructional supervisor. Ramos and her siblings sold a house they inherited to Giordano’s parents in 2002.

Ramos told the New York Teacher that she “never laid eyes on Giordano” before the sale of the house to his parents in May 2002, even though he lived across the street from her parents in what was her childhood home. Ramos did say, however, that she approved Giordano’s per-session monies after she became a LIS in July 2003. She could not recall when she first met Giordano.

In June 2005, Giordano’s parents, who never lived in the Staten Island house, sold it to Gary Giordano. According to property deeds, the parents lived in New Jersey when they bought the house from Ramos in 2002 and her siblings. They were still living in New Jersey in 2005.

— Jim Callaghan