Axed Principal's Pal Slept at School
By Erin Calabrese and Dan Mangan
New York Post
March 3, 2008
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03032008/news/regionalnews/stay_over__out_100240.htm
The Catholic high-school principal forced out after racy photos were found on his work computer was ordered to stop living at the school several years ago after bosses discovered he had a young friend residing there, The Post has learned.
Despite being neither a student nor employee of Cardinal Hayes HS in The Bronx, the friend of ousted principal Christopher Keogan had a key to the all-boys school, sources said.
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| HOOPLA: Anthony Mills (above)... |
When the friend, identified as Anthony Mills, and Keogan, a member of the Christian Brothers religious order, were told by superiors to stop living at the school, they moved off-campus, a source said.
Keogan, 51, resigned from Cardinal Hayes last month. The New York Archdiocese has refused to say why.
Sources said he resigned over raunchy images found on his work computer.
Spokesman Joseph Zwilling yesterday said that during the 2004-05 school year, the archdiocese probed claims that Mills was living at the school, but "all parties involved and with knowledge of the situation at the time denied it."
Zwilling also said the archdiocese "alerted the Christian Brothers" of the allegation.
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| who now drives an Audi (above) owned by ousted... |
But a commercial database indicates that Mills, now 25 years old, used the school as a home address in 2004.
And two former Cardinal Hayes staffers and a third source said Keogan let Mills live in the school residence on the fourth-floor beginning around 2004. Before then, Keogan was the only person living in one of the rooms there, which previously were long-used as residences by priests who taught at Cardinal Hayes.
"Tony had full access to the school. He had a front-door key, and this is someone who wasn't even working at the school," said an ex-staffer. "When I was coming out, he was going in."
"Everyone knew him as [Keogan's] friend," said the former employee.
Another ex-staffer said that when she notified Keogan's Christian Brothers superiors, they promptly ordered both men out of the residence.
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| principal Christopher Keogan (above), once resided at Cardinal Hayes HS. |
Mills now plays hoops at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Rockland County.
After his college's season-ending win at home Saturday, Mills got into the driver's seat of a 2001 Audi A6 Quattro sedan and drove away alone.
Keogan owns the car, records show.
"Everything that's in The Post are just rumors by disgruntled people who were fired. I have no comment other than that," Mills said.
Keogan is "a great guy and he's having his name dragged through the mud," Mills said.
Contact: erin.calabrese@nypost.com
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