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Christine Nunziata

January 21, 2008 @ 08:03

The story in yesterday's Toronto Sun is almost too much to comprehend but it sure gives us an idea of how the public sector can work against us.

There aren't too many jobs in the private sector, probably none, where an employee could screw around with their expense account to this extent and not get fired for it.

Ward 6 York Catholic school Trustee Christine Nunziata has had quite the time at taxpayer's expense, using public money for personal vacations to the Dominican, Cuba and other places.

Not only that, she's run up huge cell phone bills for non work calls, she bought jewelry on her expense account, a five hundred dollar visit to Canada's Wonderland, lingerie, a one hundred dollar Wal-mart gift certificate and a digital camera.

Trustees get $18.500 in salary, and then another 18 thousand for work related expenses, but there is little or no accountability. It wasn't until the Sun got tipped off and went after this spend-thrift that the enormity of her extravagance was uncovered.

And man does she like to eat. There were several bills from restaurants where she didn't pay till after midnight. At Thai restaurants, high end Carman's Steak House and bars where she charged alcohol even though that's especially forbidden.

And Christine Nunziata really loves her fast food as well. She charged her morning coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton's to the taxpayer and wracked up hundreds of dollars at McDonalds, Swiss Chalet, Harvey's and Pizza Pizza.

I guess this explains why another one of her bogus expenses was a shopping spree at a plus size woman's store.

There's some good news though, Nunziata is the niece of form MP John Nunziata, and he's still around, so obviously she hasn't tried to eat him.

In most other jobs this would grounds for dismissal, no questions asked. But so far, that hasn't even been mentioned in the Nunziata case, only repayment - but that isn't nearly enough.

It's pathetic.

Meanwhile you have to wonder how many others are doing it while schools continue to be under funded by the province.

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147 Responses to "Christine Nunziata"


James Edgar
January 21, 2008 / 10:26

Thanks for bringing that to my attention Fred. I work for the TCDSB .Now I know why nobody get raises here.


lastwordlinda
January 21, 2008 / 12:10

If Christine is the niece of John Nunziata then she is also the niece of Frances Nunziata, one of the Toronto City Councillors, a semi-right winger that carps constantly about Council expenses. I guess the message about spending taxpayers money doesn't get discussed much at family get-togethers. Maybe, instead, they talk about the ex-wife of another Nunziata brother, who put a big sign in the front window of her home that said that her ex-husband was a deadbeat Dad. Money must be a big issue in that family.


Pam
January 21, 2008 / 13:38

The Sun's article is so laughably vivid, I pictured Nunziata as a corpulant Italian matron in gaudy jewelry and a Lane Bryant teddy sitting poolside in Turks & Caicos and shoving McDonald's fries into her mouth, as she reads "Discovering Your Psychic Power", all on the taxpayers dime.

Given the humiliating nature of this story, you'd think she'd resign...


lastwordlinda
January 21, 2008 / 18:29

I hadn't read the article when I posted. Now that I have, I can't get the image Pam has depicted out of my head. Add grease on Nunziata's lips to that description and I think I might barf :-{ Ugh!


pigeon towed dave
January 21, 2008 / 20:34

hey FP-- Nuz is just following in the family footsteps. Go back into the suns archives and you will find that young Mr. Nuz was up on charges for disfiguring a billboard at the corner of Jane & Bloor ST. It had something to do with us being Americanized.


Trish
January 21, 2008 / 23:26

Freddie, I honestly wanted to trash you for objectifying a fat woman, but I laughed too hard to offer a convincing argument. You're the best... may you always be as opinionated!


Tanya
January 22, 2008 / 11:05

Hey Freddy P, glad to see you here!!

I've fought with the TCDSB for years, especially last year when my kids' school was found to be infested with mould, and the trustees told us they couldn't afford to give us an addition....of course not, they might have starved!! The horror!!! Someone has to do something about this parasite...she's completely useless as a trustee, if anyone looked into her attendance you'd notice she attends just enought board meetings to avoid being fired....someone get a backhoe down to the school board quick!!!!


lucy
January 23, 2008 / 09:16

Hi Tanya,

Would you like to share your story with CBC News? Please call me 416-434-2683.


Magdalene
January 24, 2008 / 12:33

I was on a trip to cuba with her, probably the one she used board money to pay with. she is mean woman that has no respect for others. She treated the hotel staff like peasants and bragged about making over 100,000.00 dollars a year. She was rude and offened my husband and I numerous times. She has the nerve to ask one of the hotel staff to carry her to the disco... to avoid wrecking her NINE WEST sandles...KRAMA is a wonderful thing. I cannot describe to you the smile on my face when I saw her face in the paper.


jaqui
February 1, 2008 / 11:27

If these allegations are true, then as a person in her position she should be removed. This kind of abuse should not be tolerated. Why should tax payers pay her way or anyone else's for that matter.

This matter is not shedding good vibes to the TCDSB. Others in positions of trust that have been found guilty in the past had been removed, but now it has reached the trustee level and they are not above the law.

Look after our children's education and the honest hard working staff.
The public servants are all accountable.


Janet
February 3, 2008 / 08:16

When is this talk about Christine going to stop !! Enough is Enough. She is human like everybody else. I have been reading and keeping up to date with the garbage that has been printed. DON'T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ. I personally know Christine as I have traveled with her to most of her trips and especially to Cuba. She is such a beatiful person. Very caring. She has always been so nice to everyone espically the local people at her destinations. Christine has a very good heart and the media and gossip is just making this out to be false information. Everybody please take a moment to look at her website look at her expenses you can see that she did pay all of her personal expenses back out of her own will. Can we just leave Christine Nunziata alone !!!!! This is becoming old news now. If you would like more information please contact me.......


Tanya
February 4, 2008 / 20:25

I, like you, know Christine Nunziata - but I know her from a professional standpoint...she is arrogant, rude, self-centered and childish....this spending issue is no surprise to me given her conduct. She might be a nice person in her private life, but facts are facts - whether or not she repaid the expenses is not the issue, the issue is that she charged them to a school board credit card in the first place!!!! She is wrong wrong wrong and I sincerely hope the Board has the guts to have her charged criminally for what she's done....once can be looked at as a mistake, but three times? Give me (and the rest of us who support the Catholic School Board via our taxes) a break!!!!


Jeff
February 5, 2008 / 21:12

Janet - you must be the only friend Christine has. I know her from a personal stand point as well and she is rude, obnoxious and quite the fibber. I often wondered how she got elected into office. I guess her political career is over! THANK God.


Mary D
February 5, 2008 / 21:29

How stupid! She's been doing this for years, she's been questioned by auditors before, her aunt and uncle are higher profile politicians, and politicians in general have been over the last few years over the same issues, and this woman has the ARROGANCE to continue defrauding the Toronto Tax Payer!!!


Joe Renda
February 6, 2008 / 20:58

I do not know Christina Nunziata personally.The personality characteristics as described by people that know her should not surprise us.She grew up among a disfunctional political family made up of uncle and aunt Frances Nunziata who in the past has had her share of insulting and disrespectiful exchanges with many people. Christina seems to be a product of her environment.

However, Trustee, means Trust. In this Christina has failed the Catholic community in general, the parents, the childen and Teachers who work hard to teach catholic values. One of the ten comandements is You shall not steal.

What example are the Trustees showing to the children under their care? That it is ok to steal and get away with it?

I have witten an email to Christina Nunziata with copy to all Trustees asking that she be fired if she does not resign.


Patrick
February 13, 2008 / 02:56

I read the article in the Toronto Sun..as well as the Freddie P. article above, and all I can say is that that is just a small glimpse of what Canada is heading for..it seems to be everywhere..The RCMP, TDSB, Hydro One and even our past Prime Minister..Is it too much to believe in the people we are supposed to trust...Unfortunately..I guess so..Fool me once, shame on you..fool me twice, shame on me! SHAME SHAME SHAME!


Cormega
February 13, 2008 / 04:03

That pig is so cute! Why would you post that picture for a story about this horrible trustee? I feel bad for the pig. :(


Childhood Dreams
February 13, 2008 / 10:19

Just in case someone wants talk
Christine Nunziata

Trustee Ward 6
Contact Information

80 Sheppard Avenue East, North York, Ontario M2N 6E8
(416) 512-3406; 512-3406; E-mail: christine.nunziata@tcdsb.org


subiner
February 13, 2008 / 15:59

well we can all sleep better tonight the pig as been canned, kicked to the curb. FIRED


Mariposa
February 15, 2008 / 07:43

I find it truly interesting that all of you who write things here are gullable to beleive all that written in the paper especially the Sun. I mean a paper full of scum. There is obviously more to this story that I am sure time will prevail, and for all of you to poke fun, insult, pass judgement on one person based on what is printed in the Sun paper as value word, is honestly an insult of your intelligence. If any of you really stoped to think about it, do you think some of this could have been fabricated to make a great story and there could be very good explanations for all the allegations against Christine Nunziata? You are all being very unfair, and to tell lies about her especially for those who claim you know her is a disgrace. If you claim to know her personally why not have the nerve to say what you say here directly to her face, or mabye you dont know her as personally as you may think. Christine is a wonderful, generous and very lovely human being who has helped hundreds if not thousands of people and for you all to ridcule her here in a public forum is disgracful and without proper knowledge of the situation and basing your commentary on what you read in tabloid papers like the Sun is well simply stated ignorance on your part. Be careful with your words, becasue they do have ways of coming back to haunt you. IN closing, things are not always as they appear.


Jay
February 15, 2008 / 18:28

well Mariposa I guess you are the type that like to get shafted by the greedy politicians and come back asking for more, in my books Christine Nunziata should have been charged by the police for fraud. If we as normal citizen have to abide by the laws what make these politicians, trustee above the law??


Kevin
February 20, 2008 / 11:57

Jay , i agree totally. im fed up. I was very happy to hear shes be fired . i would like to hear of criminal charges, anyone ever hear of fraud or theft? all I can say is there are many pigs at the trough, one down , many more need to come !


Daniel
March 4, 2008 / 11:26

I recently tried to recoup $20 I used to set up a fish tank in my class and was denied.Stealing at the top and no help at the bottom-sickening!


Hank
May 26, 2008 / 14:09

The last I heard of Christine is that she had checked into the center for addiction and Mental Health. No surprise she is a junky! But the funniest thing about the whole story is that she was elected as the board's TREASURER after filling from bankruptcy. Who is the bigger idiot; the board or Christine the Plunderer.


gry planszowe
August 15, 2008 / 08:57

Ciekawa strona, trafilem tu przypadkowo, ale od dzis bede wpadal czesciej, pozdro




Sheila
October 2, 2008 / 15:10

Hi Janet and Mariposa,

Would you like to talk about this issue with The Catholic Register newspaper? I'd like to hear Ms. Nunziata's side of the story.

I can be reached at 416-934-3410 or sheilad@catholicregister.org

Thank you for considering my request.

Sincerely,

Sheila


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