The ex-husband of an NYC instructor accused of getting an affair along with her principal had six gunshots fired at his Staten Island dwelling three days after The Put up broke the scandal, officers confirmed.
The NYPD is investigating the terrifying assault — captured on video — on the Nice Kills dwelling of Nicholas Sinodinos, 28, whereas he was snoozing along with his fiancée.
“My life’s been just about the wrong way up since then,” he instructed The Put up.
Detectives appeared for a hyperlink to Sinodinos’ ex-wife Jacqueline, 28, a instructor at PS 21 in Staten Island’s North Shore. Her romantic relationship with Principal Anthony Cosentino was uncovered by the Particular Commissioner of Investigation for metropolis colleges as improper, The Put up reported.
Nicholas Sinodinos, an engineer for NYC Well being+Hospitals, mentioned his ex-wife and her livid mom, Toni Marie Lucchese Kaminsky, falsely accused him of planting The Put up article, which ran on Aug. 10.
The barrage of bullets got here three days later.
At 1:20 am, a male in a white hoodie strolled as much as Nicholas’ deal with, pulled out a handgun and fired six speedy photographs on the home, security-camera video obtained by The Put up reveals. He then rotated and bolted.
Two gunshots pierced the entrance door, went by way of the lounge and into an adjoining toilet, leaving bullet holes in three partitions, one other video confirmed.
Nicholas and his fiancée have been asleep in a bed room on one other ground. Their canine’s barking in the lounge woke them up.
“Everybody within the neighborhood heard the photographs,” he mentioned.
The NYPD categorized the capturing as “reckless endangerment of property” — a misdemeanor, information present.
“That’s insane,” Sinodinos objected: “This was tried homicide, and needs to be handled as such.”
In reference to the investigation, the Staten Island District Lawyer’s Workplace sought a subpoena for Jacqueline Sinodinos’ cell-phone information, however a decide denied the request. DA spokesman James Clinton declined to touch upon the probe.
“It’s outrageous that the DA was not allowed to subpoena her telephone,” Nicholas mentioned. “It may have proved her involvement or cleared her of this crime.”
The day after the capturing, Jacqueline filed a movement in Staten Island household courtroom in search of to revoke her ex-husband’s rights to go to their two kids. He’s preventing the transfer.
In the meantime, Jacqueline was arrested on Aug. 27 on expenses of prison contempt. She is accused of violating an order of safety for Nicholas, who complained that she texted and harassed him.
She pleaded not responsible, and was launched with out bail. Her lawyer, John Rapawy, mentioned Friday she claims Nicholas did not ship a doc wanted to get medical health insurance for his or her children. Nicholas mentioned the children stay coated underneath his coverage, however she was terminated.
As for the capturing, Rapawy mentioned, “She’s not concerned in that in any respect. And if she had been, she would have been arrested.”
Nicholas Sinodinos filed for divorce final 12 months after Cosentino’s spouse blew the whistle on the principal’s relationship with the instructor, he mentioned.
The Particular Commissioner of Investigation discovered Consentino’s conduct probably violated the town Conflicts of Curiosity legal guidelines as a result of he was the instructor’s boss and really helpful her for tenure, a job safety. Romantic relationships between co-workers are forbidden if “a superior has the ability to have an effect on … an individual’s employment.”
Cosentino additionally “blatantly disregarded” metropolis Division of Training buying guidelines and failed to observe secretary Michele Cenci, who admitted embezzling $145,000 in taxpayer funds, the SCI discovered.
The DOE eliminated Cosentino from PS 21, however refused to reveal any self-discipline or new project. Jacqueline Sinodinos stays a instructor on the college.
