News Briefs: Woodsider named to UC board of regents News Briefs: Woodsider named to UC board of regents (September 21, 2005)

Woodside resident Leslie Tang Schilling was recently appointed to be a regent of the University of California by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Ms. Schilling, 50, is president of Union Square Investments Inc., a commercial real estate investment and management firm she founded in 1981. She has also served as a member of the University of California, San Francisco Foundation and Women's Forum West.

She was one of two people appointed by the governor on September 13 to the 26-member Board of Regents that oversees the management and operation of the University of California system. The positions require state Senate confirmation, and they have no salary.
Second victim says coach molested her

Menlo Park resident Bill Giordano, a longtime coach at Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, was charged September 9 with sexually molesting a second former student.

The alleged abuse took place between January and June 2002 when the victim was 13 years old.

Mr. Giordano is being held in San Mateo County Jail on felony counts of child molestation for allegedly having sex with a member of his girls' volleyball team between 1991 and 1994. The victim was 14 at the time the molestation allegedly began.

A third victim came forward, but the alleged molestations happened before 1988, beyond the statute of limitations, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

A preliminary hearing is set for October 26.

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Spinetta pleads guilty to sex with minor

Menlo Park resident Giuliano "Frank" Spinetta pleaded guilty to one count of committing a lewd or lascivious act with a child in Santa Clara County court on August 30, said prosecutor Kimberly Connors of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.

He will be sentenced to six years in prison at a sentencing hearing set for November 28, she said.

Mr. Spinetta, 64, was arrested by Sunnyvale police in May for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy he met on the Internet.

He was convicted in 1997 of embezzling $92,000 from Menlo-Atherton High School's radio station and served a six-month jail sentence under house arrest so he could care for his elderly mother.

Investigators said Mr. Spinetta used some of the embezzled money to pay for flying lessons and car insurance for a student who volunteered at the station.

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