Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn is an expensive private school that charges up to $60,000 a year for students in the upper grades. In 2020 when the school was trying to deal with COVID, they hired Winston Nguyen on a temporary basis. The person who recommended him made it clear from the outset that he had a criminal record.
Maureen “Mo” YusufMorales, who had recently been hired as the Head of the Upper Middle School, recommended Nguyen to Melissa Kantor, then-Dean of Faculty. At the outset, Yusuf-Morales informed Kantor that Nguyen had a criminal record, and Kantor informed then-Head of School Vince Tompkins in writing that Nguyen had a conviction relating to a “financial issue with his prior employer.”
He was hired before the school could run a background check. When the background check did finally come back the administrators were surprised by…
