Sep 26, 2008 12:49 pm US/Eastern
Boston Globe Reporter Quits Amid Email Scandal
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Alberto Carvalho, newly named Miami-Dade School Superintendent
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A Boston Globe reporter at the center of an e-mail scandal involving the new superintendent of the Miami-Dade school system has resigned.
Globe spokesman Bob Powers said Friday that Tania deLuzuriaga quit her post as an education reporter at the Globe. He would not say when she resigned.
Her resignation comes after e-mails surfaced detailing what appears to be a romantic relationship between deLuzuriaga and Alberto Carvalho while deLuzuriaga was an education reporter for The Miami Herald in 2007.
The e-mails were made public after Carvalho was named superintendent of the Miami-Dade public schools earlier this month.
Some of the alleged emails are flirtatious. "Will you be completely offended if I leap into your arms the next time I see you (place permitting)?" one of the alleged emails state. "Like in the movies, with arms and legs wrapped around."
The email, dated August 7, 2007, was signed "Love, love, love you. xoxoxo."
Carvalho said he did not recall whether he saw that particular email, saying it was from more than a year ago.
One set of the alleged emails is more sexually explicit and Carvalho does appear to respond to them via his BlackBerry.
When he was asked by CBS4 News if he believed deLuzuriaga had romantic feelings toward him, Carvalho said: "I can't speak to her emotions."
"Sometimes she was jovial in her approach," he added. "I never would have entertained taking it to that next level because I was not open to that."
DeLuzuriaga has refused to comment on the emails. The Miami Herald said it is doing its own investigation, but has said they are unable to verify the authenticity of the emails because they date back more than a year.
Carvalho has denied having an affair with deLuzuriaga. He has also said "There has never been anything inappropriate [between him and deLuzuriaga]. Nor do I feel she ever crossed a professional line with me."
Carvalho provided CBS4 News copies of his schedule for days in which the emails suggest Carvalho and deLuzuriaga were discussing taking possible trips together. The logs show that he was in Florida in a variety of meetings when the trips supposedly took place.
The Miami Herald has previously reported that in the summer of 2007 deLuzuriaga did notify her editor at the time that she was going biking with Carvalho and others. The Herald said the editor warned deLuzuriaga to maintain an arm's length relationship with Carvalho.
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