Tassone, still doing damage control, would write in a Roslyn newspaper column, according to, "If we had known then everything we know now, we would certainly have taken a different course of action."
It was Annunziato who discovered that Tassone paid a fake company named WordPower $800,000 for services rendered. And Tassone could've gotten away with it were it not for the fact that WordPower operated out of an address that matched that of Tassone's apartment. That was the final nail in the coffin for Tassone. He was asked to resign from the position that once brought him, and the school district itself, praise.Prosecutors would later reveal that Tassone, Gluckin and a string of their friends and family were responsible for embezzling $11 million from the school district by using subtle and frankly smart tactics.
Many who knew the ever-single Tassone claimed they assumed he was gay, but didn't voice their belief. As a former Roslyn employee told, "This is a very socially advanced community, very liberal... It's like it wouldn't have been cool even to bring it up."