Long Islanders had big role in pension reform push

Take a bow, Long Island . Yesterday, state lawmakers moved swiftly to pass unusually strong legislation ending two forms of flagrant pension fraud.

[Newsday and feel good law]

That does not forbid principals and asst. supts. from retiring and then collecting their pensions while working the job. It calls for the same "efforts" from districts to search for replacements that ALREADY EXISTED in law. What is the consequence for State ed for handing out the waivers? What prevents the waivers now? NOTHING. But keep patting yourself on the back Newsday. Only a hand full of lawyers are really affected, and they could and should have been prosecuted.

[Superintendent]

You folks caused the need for legislation. Greed and an uncanny ability to not live in reality have plagued the island for years. Upstate is grateful for revenue from NYC but must bear many unfunded mandates and burdens as a result of graft and greed from the island.

[Get It Straight]

Superintendent wrote:

You folks caused the need for legislation. Greed and an uncanny ability to not live in reality have plagued the island for years. Upstate is grateful for revenue from NYC but must bear many unfunded mandates and burdens as a result of graft and greed from the island.

Upstate gets a lot of LI money too.
Exactly what unfunded mandates and burdens do you have upstate as a result of graft and greed on LI? Please explain!!!
Sounds to me like you're trying to blame us and continue the upstate vs. downstate problems, instead of trying to make things better for everyone.
If the island can force the legislature to enact laws that benefit the whole state educational system, then what can upstate do for all of us?

[corruption runs deep]

"What was acceptable in so many school districts 16 weeks ago is on its way to being classified as a felony crime"

Thank God

"It was outright taxpayer abuse."

"The practices were so common in Nassau and Suffolk that until recently some school districts defended them".

"It was all part of a culture of corruption on Long Island that runs so wide and so deep that for decades it was shrugged off as business as usual."

Yes, Iwitnessed so many atrocities in the schools it made me sick. I was fired and blacklisted by Amityvilles ex Superintendent, Brian DeSorbe, for reporting the atrocities I witnessed. I tried to sue Amityville but no lawyer would take my case.
Now I know why. They are getting into the NYS retirement system Hush Hush
Ellen Belfiore
P.S. I have just reported Amityvilles new Superintendent, John Williams, who retired from Sewanhaka in Floral Park.
Hope it makes Newsday.

This is just the tip of the corruption iceburg in the school districts.

[corruption runs deep]

Dr.Brian DeSorbe's Summer Reading List for Adminis-traitors

1) 1001 Ways To Launder Money, by Frank Tassone

2) Living High On The Hog: by Pamela Gluckin

3) How To Destroy a Teachers Career, By Brian DeSorbe

4) Worlds Best Golf Courses

[corruption runs deep]

Vocabulary for Taxpayers

grand larceny
double-dipping
money laundering
consultant
plagued by fraud
theft and abuse",
false instrument
state retirement fund

February 6, 2007
Corrupt school district official sentenced to prison
The former assistant superintendent for business for the William Floyd School District was sentenced in Suffolk County court this morning to serve two to six years behind bars for stealing money from the district and from the state retirement fund.

Daniel Cifonelli, 72, pleaded guilty last year to four counts of grand larceny in the second degree, four counts of money laundering and one charge of third degree grand larceny. Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota recommended a four to 12 year prison term for Cifonelli, whose state sentence will run concurrently with a federal prison term he received last month.

Cifonelli, of Port Jefferson Station, has been serving a federal sentence in Massachusetts since January 18 after pleading guilty to income tax evasion.

"Mr. Cifonelli drained school district insurance accounts of over $240,000 thousand dollars of taxpayer money by simply transferring school district money to his personal bank accounts, and he collected $444,000 in pension benefits from 1998 until 2001 while working illegally for the William Floyd district as a consultant, a practice known as "double-dipping", " Spota said. Following Cifonelli's arrest in 2005, the district attorney blamed the school board and administrators having a system "plagued by fraud, theft and abuse", leaving taxpayers "without the basic safeguards necessary to prevent thievery".

Cifonelli's co-defendant James Wright, the former William Floyd treasurer, is awaiting sentencing on charges of second degree grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing charges. Wright, 58, of Bohemia, pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny for stealing school district funds from April 4, 2000 until January 24, 2003. Wright has cooperated with investigators since his arrest 2004 to satisfy the requirements of State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle's sentence of two to six years' imprisonment.

As the treasurer of the school district, Wright stole $777,145 by writing checks from district funds payable to himself.

[Taxpayer]

GREAT WORK NEWSDAY!! What would we do without you?

[corruption runs deep]

[You folks) caused the need for legislation. You folks! Are you immortal and seperate from the rest of us.

Long Island has deep roots of corruption. Sooooo expensive to try and (live) survive there. But what is really stunning is all the crooks say "this has been going on forever" so the crooks feel that time makes wrong a right!
In other words, if an atrocity has been going on for years it becomes OK.
What a sick way of thinking. But then again these people are sick in a way.

[Unknown]

John Moutopoulos was the leak to the Roslyn scandal. What did he get paid??

[John Mccormick]

A school insider was the leak.

[John Mccormick]

A Roslyn school insider was the leak.

[Steven Signorelli]

It was Pamela Gluckins brother-in-law Joseph Ceccarini who turned on Mrs Gluckin. Mrs Gluckin cut off the money she was giving her sister Johanna Ceccarini and Joseph Ceccarini. No more Searay boats and Hampton-Sag Harbor homes paid by Roslyn.