A custodial supervisor turned underworld tactics such as “no show” jobs and kickbacks into lucrative tools of the cleaning trade at an Upper West Side high school, investigators charged yesterday.
Philip Portelli, 32, who managed the custodial crew at West Side HS, cleaned the school out of nearly $100,000 by creating a three-year “no show” job for his friend, Paul Azzopardi, probers said.
Azzopardi, 27, who claimed to have done just two or three light jobs at the school between 2006 and 2008, kept a portion of the money from checks that Portelli routinely forged and cashed in Azzopardi’s name, investigators said.