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Ugly Mayoral Sex Scandal Rocks Waterbury
August 16, 2001 11:49 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A teen-age girl has told state investigators that Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano paid her to have sex with him and to watch him have sex with her aunt, the Hartford Courant reported Thursday.
The newspaper cited a report by the state Department of Children and Families and sources it did not identify.
The 17-year-old girl, who is from Waterbury, told her story to DCF investigators, the Courant reported. She said Giordano paid her to have sex in his private law office, some time after her 16th birthday, the newspaper reported.
The teen-ager is the cousin of two girls, ages 9 and 10, involved in federal child sex charges against Giordano, according to the Courant. Giordano was charged on July 26 with using an interstate facility to entice a minor into sexual acts. He is being held without bond.
The aunt who the teen said she watched have sex with Giordano is the mother of one of the young girls involved in the child sex case, the Courant reported. The aunt, named as Jane Doe in court documents to protect the children, was charged last month with arranging for Giordano to have sex with the two young girls and is also being held without bail.
According to the DCF report, Doe told law enforcement officials that Giordano is the father of her 7-year-old son, which raised the possibility that one of the girls involved in the child sex charges may be the half-sister of the mayor's alleged illegitimate child, the Courant reported.
The teen-ager told DCF officials that from the time she was 12, Doe often arranged for sexual encounters between her and men for pay, a practice that Doe called "going to wash windows," the newspaper reported.
FBI agents, using electronic surveillance, allegedly heard the mayor planning a sexual liaison in his office, but they did not realize the significance of what they had heard until their surveillance caught the sex act itself on tape, the newspaper reported.
Sources told the Courant it was that encounter that alerted investigators to the involvement of a minor in Giordano's alleged sexual exploits. Authorities then reviewed earlier wiretapped conversations and discovered one in which Giordano and Doe allegedly arranged the liaison with the child, the newspaper reported.
The affidavit in the child sex case is sealed and the nature of Giordano's alleged contact with the two young girls remains unknown.
The mother of the 17-year-old girl has been ordered to appear in Waterbury Juvenile Court on Friday for a custody hearing. The agency, which has a long record of involvement with the family, is seeking to extend its custody of the children who have been taken into state custody in the past month, the Courant reported.
The girl told DCF workers that she has watched Giordano, a married father of three, have sex in his office with Doe at least four times, the newspaper reported.
She also told authorities that Giordano paid her $40 on two occasions to watch him and Doe have sex, the newspaper reported. In June, she told investigators, he began fondling her breasts then paid her to let him perform oral sex on her, the newspaper reported.
After Giordano was arrested, an investigator wearing a biomedical hazard suit was seen carrying a rug from the mayor's office.
A rumor that Giordano had fathered an illegitimate child with Doe dogged him during his 1997 campaign. Giordano denied the allegation at the time, and Doe said another man was the father.
Giordano's arrest revealed a federal corruption investigation of Waterbury City Hall.
Giordano's attorney, Andrew Bowman, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Also Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis declined to unseal additional court documents that would reveal details of the case. A federal judge last week issued a similar ruling.
The 17-year-old girl told investigators that she did not know that her aunt was allegedly arranging for her younger cousins to have sex with Giordano, the Courant reported.
"If I knew, I would have had sex with him to protect them," she said.
(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Ugly Mayoral Sex Scandal Rocks Waterbury
August 16, 2001 11:49 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A teen-age girl has told state investigators that Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano paid her to have sex with him and to watch him have sex with her aunt, the Hartford Courant reported Thursday.
The newspaper cited a report by the state Department of Children and Families and sources it did not identify.
The 17-year-old girl, who is from Waterbury, told her story to DCF investigators, the Courant reported. She said Giordano paid her to have sex in his private law office, some time after her 16th birthday, the newspaper reported.
The teen-ager is the cousin of two girls, ages 9 and 10, involved in federal child sex charges against Giordano, according to the Courant. Giordano was charged on July 26 with using an interstate facility to entice a minor into sexual acts. He is being held without bond.
The aunt who the teen said she watched have sex with Giordano is the mother of one of the young girls involved in the child sex case, the Courant reported. The aunt, named as Jane Doe in court documents to protect the children, was charged last month with arranging for Giordano to have sex with the two young girls and is also being held without bail.
According to the DCF report, Doe told law enforcement officials that Giordano is the father of her 7-year-old son, which raised the possibility that one of the girls involved in the child sex charges may be the half-sister of the mayor's alleged illegitimate child, the Courant reported.
The teen-ager told DCF officials that from the time she was 12, Doe often arranged for sexual encounters between her and men for pay, a practice that Doe called "going to wash windows," the newspaper reported.
FBI agents, using electronic surveillance, allegedly heard the mayor planning a sexual liaison in his office, but they did not realize the significance of what they had heard until their surveillance caught the sex act itself on tape, the newspaper reported.
Sources told the Courant it was that encounter that alerted investigators to the involvement of a minor in Giordano's alleged sexual exploits. Authorities then reviewed earlier wiretapped conversations and discovered one in which Giordano and Doe allegedly arranged the liaison with the child, the newspaper reported.
The affidavit in the child sex case is sealed and the nature of Giordano's alleged contact with the two young girls remains unknown.
The mother of the 17-year-old girl has been ordered to appear in Waterbury Juvenile Court on Friday for a custody hearing. The agency, which has a long record of involvement with the family, is seeking to extend its custody of the children who have been taken into state custody in the past month, the Courant reported.
The girl told DCF workers that she has watched Giordano, a married father of three, have sex in his office with Doe at least four times, the newspaper reported.
She also told authorities that Giordano paid her $40 on two occasions to watch him and Doe have sex, the newspaper reported. In June, she told investigators, he began fondling her breasts then paid her to let him perform oral sex on her, the newspaper reported.
After Giordano was arrested, an investigator wearing a biomedical hazard suit was seen carrying a rug from the mayor's office.
A rumor that Giordano had fathered an illegitimate child with Doe dogged him during his 1997 campaign. Giordano denied the allegation at the time, and Doe said another man was the father.
Giordano's arrest revealed a federal corruption investigation of Waterbury City Hall.
Giordano's attorney, Andrew Bowman, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Also Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis declined to unseal additional court documents that would reveal details of the case. A federal judge last week issued a similar ruling.
The 17-year-old girl told investigators that she did not know that her aunt was allegedly arranging for her younger cousins to have sex with Giordano, the Courant reported.
"If I knew, I would have had sex with him to protect them," she said.
(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)