Nathan Hannon reported three trips during the summer to the Newport YMCA as part of his job as education coordinator for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

He also reported two trips to the YMCA in Westerly, two visits to the South Providence Youth Ministries, two presentations at the Woonsocket YMCA and a presentation at Mercy Mount Country Day in Cumberland.

But the directors of those places say that he didn’t visit.

Hannon was fired from his job Sept. 4, after his bosses say he lied about having to leave early for a school presentation that afternoon in Westerly that the principal says was never scheduled. Hannon says that the appointment had been canceled.

Michael O’Connell, Resource Recovery’s executive director, said that he hadn’t checked any of Hannon’s prior scheduled events.

The Journal obtained Hannon’s work records under Rhode Island’s open-records law, including his weekly progress reports, mileage-reimbursement forms and e-mails, and then contacted the places that Hannon reported visiting in June, July and August. He was reimbursed about $440 in mileage for those months.

In several instances, the people who run the schools, camps and YMCAs where Hannon reported going told The Journal that he had not been there. Some said that they had only spoken to him on the phone, usually to arrange student tours of the Central Landfill in Johnston.

“He didn’t come here, we went there,” says Sister Martha Mulligan, the principal at Mercy Mount Country Day, whose two fifth-grade classes toured the landfill on June 12, the date that Hannon reported on his mileage form that he visited the school for a presentation.

Of 27 instances in which Hannon filed paperwork for mileage reimbursement, The Journal could only confirm three trips: he went to the Blackstone Valley Charter School in June and West Warwick High School in July and dropped off educational materials to a woman affiliated with the South Providence Youth Ministries in June.

But he didn’t go to the South Providence Youth Ministries for presentations in July and August, as he reported, officials there say. Those were among at least 17 appointments that people say didn’t happen. At the remaining seven places, two could not be reached and the others said they could not confirm or did not recall his visiting.

In an e-mail Friday, Hannon did not directly respond to whether he had gone to the places he filled out mileage reports for. But he said that he performed a lot of outreach. “Quite frankly,” he wrote, “there is no doubt that I did much more than the calendar reflects.”

“If I was cold calling with the goal of dropping educational materials off at different places, I put on the calendar that it was a presentation,” he wrote. “Often time materials were dropped off and there was no specific person to meet, but I viewed my explanation to whomever I spoke as a presentation and introduction to what we did at RIRRC.”

When he was hired, wrote Hannon, “I was told that it wasn’t a desk-bound office and we were to be out in the community as much as possible.”

Hannon reported going to the Newport Y, in Middletown, on June 17 to set up tour dates, on June 26 to “deliver material [and] set up tour presentation dates,” and on Aug. 13 for a presentation. But Mike Miller, the Y’s associate director who arranges field trips, said that he didn’t meet with Hannon and that summer campers didn’t visit the landfill.

On Aug. 5, Hannon filed a mileage report for a presentation at the Westerly YMCA; his appointment card said that it was with Max Man, the costumed “superhero” who promotes recycling to children. He also filed a mileage report to the Westerly Y on Aug. 20. Y director Kristin Webber says they didn’t come.

“I’ve never heard of Max Man — and if there was a costumed superhero running around here, I would’ve known,” she said. “It’s kind of odd to me. I don’t know why he would say he was here.”

Besides, Max Man was out of commission in August. According to e-mails to Hannon, the actor who plays Max Man had eye surgery, and didn’t make any appearances that month.

O’Connell wonders where Hannon went when he left the office for appointments that people say he didn’t have.

Michael Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, said that hypothetically, a person who submitted false mileage reports or was paid for work they didn’t do could be prosecuted for obtaining money under false pretenses — a felony if the amount exceeds $500. Healey noted that Lynch has fought the past two years for enactment of a tougher theft-of-honest services law that would make it a felony for a public servant to deprive the public of the intangible right of honest services.

The General Assembly has killed the bill both years.

mstanton@projo.com