James Giordano

Eda and James Giordano were charged Monday with two counts each of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.
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I thought that guy lived alone," said John McNeill, a neighbor who lives across the street, referring to James Giordano, 54.
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If James Giordano kept a low profile in his neighborhood, he had a different persona at PepsiCo in Purchase, where he has worked for 33 years in the facilities department.His job title is furniture specialist.At least one co-worker described him yesterday as friendly and helpful and said he liked to chat about his 7-year-old twins.Employees there were stunned by his arrest.

Lake Carmel is a densely populated, former summer community.Nearly 20 years ago, in 1986, Giordano and Eda Hausner, then his girlfriend, bought their approximately 800-square-foot, two-bedroom home for $116,000, according to county land records.

Like any proud dad, James Giordano of Lake Carmel freely foisted his pleasure on others - one that was doubled by the fact he had not one, but two newborns.

His twins came into the world at Putnam Hospital Center on a comfortable summer Thursday in 1997.The photographs soon followed, a sharp contrast to the childhood that authorities have described as a secret existence.

"I remember the pride when he first had them," said Jeri Nevins, who retired almost four years ago from PepsiCo Inc. in Purchase, where Giordano, 54, has worked for 33 years.
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For like the next year or so, you kept up on everything they were doing constantly," said Nevins, echoing others at the soft-drink company's headquarters who said Giordano freely chatted about his children.
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At home in Lake Carmel, where the houses are within talking distance of each other, Giordano, his wife, Eda, and their 7-year-old children, Cassidy Rose and John James, are mostly a mystery to their neighbors.
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Eda and James Giordano were charged with two counts each of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.
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Known as Jimmy, according to his 1968 Carmel High School yearbook, James Giordano was one of three brothers in the family's home on Lakeview Road in Carmel - a neighborhood of contemporaries above an inlet of the Croton Falls Reservoir.He listed freshman football and track and varsity volleyball under his photograph.Like many of his generation, the military was his next step after graduation, his yearbook entry said.
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Back on Rockwood Road, the only recollections neighbors had of Giordano were of him mowing his lawn or getting in and out of his car.
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At PepsiCo, where Giordano is a furniture specialist in the facilities department, co-workers had a very different impression - one of an affable family man.

Nevins, the former PepsiCo secretary, described Giordano as "a nice, normal, decent and fun guy" who was "extremely easy to work with."

Eda, 40, and James Giordano, 54, bought their cream-colored Lake Carmel home in 1986.
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PepsiCo spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said James Giordano, who has worked for 33 years in the facilities department, remains an employee of the company.