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REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONER OF INVESTIGATION FOR THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT SEPTEMBER 1, <strong>1999</strong>-JUNE 30, <strong>2002</strong> TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………..1 FRAUD AND CORRUPTION……………………………………………..2 Hijacked On The Technology Superhighway: The Fleecing of District 29………..……………………………………….. 3 Home Instruction: Teachers Cheat Children Out of an Education and the BOE Out of Money. 5 Frank Accardi…………………………………………………….... 5 Stevenson Smith………………………………………………….... 6 Custodian Investigations: Corruption Continues………………………….. 8 Steven McGuire…..……………………………………………….. 8 Gregory Kelly……………………………………………………... 9 Eric Klein………………………………………………………….. 11 11 Custodians Arrested in Bid Rigging and Kickback Scheme.….. 12 Vendor Corruption………………………………………………………… 15 The Retberg Child Center…………………………………………. 15 Copy World of America, Inc./Candle Business Systems, Inc…….. 16 Employee Theft………………………………………………………….… 19 Time Abuse: Julian Gonzalez and Domenick Pace……………….. 19 Scheme to Defraud: Judy Kennedy and Robin Hughes………….... 20 Payroll Fraud: Danielle DiSanto and Dawn Cox………………….. 21 Frank Zanotti: A Larceny at Ground Zero Goes Unreported…….... 22 The Use of False Documents to Explain Absences……………….………. 24 Batiek Simon………………………………………………………. 24 Mark Drexler………………………………………………………. 25 Theresa King………………………………………………………. 25 Suzannah Antonick………………………………………………... 26 Lynda Cosgrove…………………………………………………… 29 Ferdinand Resto…………………………………………………… 30
EDUCATOR CHEATING…………………………………………………. 33 Cheating The Children: Educator Misconduct On Standardized Tests…... 34 The United Federation of Teachers Responds to Our Cheating Report.…... 36 An Investigation into the Continued Cheating in City Schools…..…….…. 36 An Investigation into the Cheating at CES 88X…………………………... 38 An Investigation into the Social Promotion of Failing Students in District 5………………………………………………………………….... 39 FAILURE TO REPORT CRIMES AND MISCONDUCT…………41 Dangerous Consequences: Officials at Brooklyn Technical High School Fail to Report Armed Robberies to the Police………………………..…… 43 An Investigation into the Failure of School Officials at IS 278K and MS 180Q to Report Allegations of Sexual Abuse………………………… 44 An Investigation into the Failure of Administrators at CS 66 to Report an Incident of Sexual Abuse..…………………………...………………… 46 An Investigation into the Entry of a Male Intruder at PS 89……………… 47 STUDENT SAFETY……………………………………………………….… 49 Charles Serrano: Using Students to Purchase Marijuana………………….. 49 SEXUAL ABUSE AND MISCONDUCT……………………………..… 51 Omar Ayed………….……………………………………………………... 52 Irwin Goldberg…….………………………………………………………. 52 Angela Xenakis…..….…………………………………………………….. 54 Alan Lasher………………………………………………………………... 55 ARREST CASES……………………………………………………………... 57 Carlos Diaz………………………………………………………………… 57 Nathaniel Harvey………………………………………………………….. 57 Freddie Hood……………………………………………………………… 58 Loida Jimenez…………………………………………………….……….. 59 Paul Kerner………………………………………………………………... 59 Nicole Matarese…………………………………………………………… 60
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Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION The Office of the Spec
Page 7 and 8: Hijacked On The Technology Superhig
Page 9 and 10: Home Instruction: Teachers Cheat Ch
Page 11 and 12: eview. As a result, on January 2, 2
Page 13 and 14: eview of bank account records and p
Page 15 and 16: Recommendations and Results We reco
Page 17 and 18: costing in excess of $250, the cust
Page 19 and 20: Vendor Corruption The Retberg Child
Page 21 and 22: Thomas’s conduct led to the disco
Page 23 and 24: Employee Theft Time Abuse: Julian G
Page 25 and 26: This incident could have been avoid
Page 27 and 28: The outraged BOE employee who made
Page 29 and 30: Mark Drexler An examination of atte
Page 31 and 32: secretary spoke with Antonick by ph
Page 33 and 34: Recommendations Antonick submitted
Page 35 and 36: severity of his injury after leavin
Page 37 and 38: EDUCATOR CHEATING Several major inv
Page 39 and 40: Recommendations and Results We reco
Page 41 and 42: his stint as proctor for the 2000 P
Page 43 and 44: Recommendations Concerned about the
Page 45 and 46: FAILURE TO REPORT CRIMES AND MISCON
Page 47 and 48: Dangerous Consequences: Officials a
Page 49 and 50: IS 278, Brooklyn On a hot and humid
Page 51 and 52: The attack in the stairwell of CS 6
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STUDENT SAFETY Charles Serrano: Usi
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SEXUAL ABUSE AND MISCONDUCT From th
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Shortly after the victim transferre
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To investigators, the female studen
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ARREST CASES Carlos Diaz On August
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Hood was indicted by a Queens Grand
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Nadal admitted that he had physical
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• Victims do not have the right t
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Franklin Simon: Hired by the BOE Wi
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proceedings. The teacher was paid t
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Williams was arrested in September
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Grand Illusion: An Investigation In
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST______________
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ADMINISTRATIVE OUTCOMES 1 _________
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III. Outcomes of Cases From Prior R
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