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Philip Giordano is perhaps the most reviled person to ever disgrace a public office in Connecticut. He is currently serving a 37-year prison term for sexually abusing two young girls while he was mayor of Waterbury. In 2003, Giordano was convicted of violating the girls' civil rights by paying a crack-addicted prostitute to bring her daughter and niece to him for sexual encounters in 2000 and 2001, when they were 8 and 10. Giordano was arrested in July of 2001 by FBI agents who were monitoring him as part of a municipal corruption investigation. The arrest stunned the city and prompted fellow Republican and then-Gov. John Rowland to ask Giordano to resign. After serving as a state representa...
Philip Giordano is perhaps the most reviled person to ever disgrace a public office in Connecticut. He is currently serving a 37-year prison term for sexually abusing two young girls while he was mayor of Waterbury. In 2003, Giordano was convicted of violating the girls' civil rights by paying a crack-addicted prostitute to bring her daughter and niece to him for sexual encounters in 2000 and 2001, when they were 8 and 10. Giordano was arrested in July of 2001 by FBI agents who were monitoring him as part of a municipal corruption investigation. The arrest stunned the city and prompted fellow Republican and then-Gov. John Rowland to ask Giordano to resign. After serving as a state representative, Giordano took office as the city¿s 43rd mayor in January, 1996. He was re-elected twice. A lawyer and former U.S. Marine, Giordano ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2000, losing to incumbent Joseph Lieberman.
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Sun reporterAs a native of the Bronx, Edwin F. O'Brien once dreamed of taking the field at Yankee Stadium. Yesterday, he had his chance. "I finally made it," Baltimore's archbishop said before joining Pope Benedict XVI yesterday at the fabled ballpark in New York....Tags: Ceremonies, Roman Catholic, Religious Leaders, Air and Space Accidents, Society
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Unmasked: The Depravity Within
To the extent that such events can be fixed in time, the moment Mayor Philip A. Giordano's obsession with sex jumped from back-alley gossip to pressing political business occurred at the end of a corny downtown Christmas pageant.
Giordano backers, the...Tags: Corporate Crime, Contracts, Colleges and Universities, Homes, Law Enforcement
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Christmas Stories
The holidays play themselves out in many places and many ways. We visit a few of them, and our writers bring back stories of camels, carols, Christmas trees and that thing called hope. • • • Report from Bethlehem The news this Christmas season from...Tags: Radio Industry, Slavery, Salvation Army, Christianity, Minority Groups
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