She is definitely a mourning person.
Since 2016, Brooklyn city classroom aide Andrea Sirico has requested bereavement leave for a shocking 21 dead relatives laid to rest.
But in most cases the only thing buried was the truth: She forged more than 12 funeral letters for services that never happened, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools found.
Sirico was a paraprofessional at P.S. K369 – Coy L. Cox, a K-12 school with sites around Brooklyn for students with disabilities. Paul Martinka
Sirico, 40, a paraprofessional at PS K369, said the dearly departed included her fiance, six uncles, six aunts, two grandfathers, a grandfather’s gay lover, two cousins, a father-in-law, and two relatives whose names could not be discerned, a newly released SCI report says.
Each phony funeral, SCI alleges, let Sirico get paid while skipping one to two days of work at her school, a K-12 program at various