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murderers. What you did is indescribable," - U.S. District Judge
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Ex-Republican Mayor in Connecticut Is Sentenced
to 37 Years for Sex Abuse
June 14, 2003 BRIDGEPORT, Conn.
(AP) Former Republican Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano, convicted of
sexually abusing two preteen girls inside City Hall and other locations, was
sentenced Friday to 37 years in federal prison. Giordano was convicted in March
of violating the civil rights of the two girls by forcing them to have oral sex
with him in City Hall, his law office, home, and elsewhere. The girls were ages 8
and 10 at the time. He also was convicted of conspiring with a prostitute who is
the mother of one girl and aunt of the other, and with using an interstate
device, a cell phone, to arrange the liaisons. ``Your conduct is the worst I
have ever seen. I've seen drug dealers, murderers. What you did is
indescribable,'' U.S. District Judge Alan Nevas told the former Republican
mayor in announcing the sentence. ``You, sir, are a sexual predator.'' Giordano
did not speak during the sentencing hearing. He could have faced a life sentence
under federal guidelines, but the judge chose a lesser sentence based on
Giordano's cooperation in a federal investigation of political corruption in
Waterbury. Giordano still faces state charges on the allegations. nytimes.com
Jones
Sentenced In Giordano Case October
17, 2003 By LYNNE TUOHY The Hartford Courant
BRIDGEPORT -- Guitana "GiGi" Jones was
sentenced this morning to 10 years in prison for allowing former Waterbury
Mayor Philip A. Giordano to force himself sexually on her grammar school-aged
daughter and niece. U.S. District Judge Alan H. Nevas lauded Jones'
cooperation in the case against Giordano, who was convicted in March. But,
Nevas said, what Jones had done as a mother was unspeakable. Jones
will receive 15 percent credit for good behavior and credit for about 27
months already served, so is likely to be out of prison in about six years. A
convicted prostitute who was sexually involved with Giordano for nearly a
decade and is the mother of one of his children, Jones often turned to the
former mayor for legal help, usually after prostitution arrests. In lieu of a
fee, she paid Giordano in sexual favors. During the summer of 1999, Giordano
asked her to help him procure younger girls. In November 2000, Giordano
telephoned Jones and said he wanted to have sex with the two young victims in
the case, who were 8 and 10 at the time. Jones was addicted to crack cocaine
and needed the $40 to $60 Giordano paid her on each of the 15 occasions she
delivered the children to him between November 2000 and his arrest in July
2001. This past June, Nevas sentenced Giordano to 37 years in prison. At the
time Nevas said that, in his 18 years on the bench, Giordano's case was the
worst he'd seen. Jones, who testified for the government during Giordano's
two-week trial in March, had pleaded guilty to federal charges that carried a
maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. ctnow.com
Federal Child Sex Charges Against Republican
Mayor Giordano November 23, 2001 Two girls, ages
8 and 10, involved in federal child sex charges against Republican
Mayor Giordano August 17,
2001, Shocking details have emerged about Republican Waterbury Mayor Philip
Giordano's alleged child sex dalliances — including allegations that he used
his private law office as a sex den. A 17-year-old girl has told investigators
that Giordano, a married father of three, and a Republican paid her to have
sex with him and to watch him have sex with her aunt, The Hartford Courant
reported yesterday. The newspaper cited a report by the state Department of
Children and Families and sources it did not identify.The girl said Giordano
paid her to have sex in his private law office, sometime after her 16th
birthday, the newspaper reported. "He did ask me to do sexual stuff, but
I didn't do it," the girl told WFSB-TV. Giordano's attorney Andrew Bowman
did not return calls for comment yesterday.The teenager is the cousin of two
girls, ages 9 and 10, involved in federal child sex charges against Republican
Mayor Giordano, according to The Courant. Giordano was charged on July 26 with
using an "interstate facility" — a phone or a computer — to
entice a minor into sexual acts. He is being held without bail. nydailynews.com
Republican Mayor of Waterbuyy, Conn., Hit With
Teen Sex Rap By Feds July 27,2001 By
Jonathan LeMire and Dave Goldener Mayor Philip
Giordano, a three-term Republican who ran for the U.S. Senate in a bid to unseat Democrat
Sen. Joseph Lieberman last fall, was accused of using an "interstate facility"
to entice a minor to have sex and conspiracy to commit that act. "The conduct in
which Republican Mayor Giordano is charged today is disgraceful," FBI Special Agent
Michael Wolf said of the charges, which involve a 16-year-old. Wolf said there are other
victims, but the charges involve only one. Officials refused to release any other details,
including the gender of the victim or how Giordano, a Republican and 38-year-old married
father of three, met the minor. However, The Hartford Courant, citing unidentified
sources, said the alleged sexual misconduct involved two girls, 9 and 11 years old. The
Internal Revenue Service and state prosecutors are also involved in the probe.
Investigators would not define interstate facility or say why the IRS was involved, but
they were seen searching Giordano's office yesterday and interviewing City Hall employees.
To be a federal offense, the crime must be committed across state lines by such methods as
travel, the Internet, the telephone or mail. If convicted, Republican Mayor Giordano faces
a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Republican Gov. John Rowland called
for the mayor to resign immediately. "Stepping down is the right thing to do for the
city and his family," he said. Corruption and fiscal woes have long been a fact of
life in Waterbury, a rundown city of 100,000 that was once a major manufacturing center.
But people who live in Waterbury were shocked their city was being tarred with a child-sex
scandal. "Honestly, when I first heard, I thought it would be something like ...
corruption or graft charges," said John McCarthy, 43, who owns the Shortree Diner.
"But not this." Retired cop Francis O'Brien, 48, didn't mince words about
Giordano, who toppled the city's once-powerful Democratic machine to win City Hall. "If
it's true, it's a very, very sad thing," said O'Brien. "Hang him, I say."
nydailynews.com
Republican Mayor arrested on sexually related charges involving child
July 26, 2001 WATERBURY, Connecticut (CNN) -- Philip Giordano, the Republican
mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, was arrested Thursday morning on two federal
charges dealing with "sexual activity" involving a child, the FBI
said. Special agent Lisa Bull said the mayor was arrested on two offenses: the
use of an interstate facility to entice a child under the age of 16 to engage
in sexual activity, and conspiracy to carry out that offense. He appeared
before a federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who granted the
government's motion to detain Giordano and deny bail. The mayor, a lawyer and
former Marine, was arrested by FBI and IRS agents. Their investigation was
assisted by the state Department of Children and Families. Bull had no further
details on the arrest. The investigation continues, she said. A hearing is
scheduled for Tuesday. Giordano, 38, was the Republican challenger against
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman last year, who ran for re-election to the Senate
while he was also vice presidential contender on the Democratic ticket cnn.com
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