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"Freedom Fighter" |
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29 Nov 2007 04:10:03 PM |
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MORE GIULIANI CORRUPTION EXPOSED! |
Rudy Giuliani hid travel and security expenses charged to taxpayers while
courting Judi, records show
By DAVID SALTONSTALL and MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, November 29th 2007, 4:00 AM
GOP contender Rudy Giuliani, shown with Judi while hobnobbing at Hamptons
benefit last year, could be in hot water over recent details on his travel
expenses while mayor.
[Apparently his known abuses of power, such as assigning two NYPD detectives
as round-the-clock bodyguards for his mistress at taxpayer expense, was only
the tip of a massive iceberg.]
Rudy Giuliani faced new questions Wednesday about his illicit affair with
Judi Nathan after records emerged suggesting the tab for cops guarding their
Hamptons love nest was buried in obscure City Hall accounts.
It has been known since 2000 that then-Mayor Giuliani used his official,
taxpayer-funded NYPD detail to escort him to weekend getaways at Nathan's
Southampton condo as early as 1999, well before his marriage to Donna
Hanover dissolved the following spring.
Back then, the Giuliani administration stonewalled reporters trying to nail
down the costs for guarding the mayor during his Nathan liaison. The full
tab remains a city secret.
["City secret!" Now we see the motives behind Giuliani's arrogant siezing
custody of and concealment of public records of his mayorality upon leaving
office.]
But the documents obtained by the Politico.com Web site through Freedom of
Information laws now show for the first time how Giuliani's administration
seemed to scatter travel costs for security details during that time among
obscure mayoral offices.
Those included units for regulating lofts and providing legal help to the
poor, the report said.
[Thus Ghouliani could cite and take credit for bugetary funds to aid the
poor, while in fact the money went for security and travel related to his
adulterous affair!]
Coming amid a heated Republican primary battle for President, the gimmickry
leaves Giuliani vulnerable to attack on several fronts: his boasts about
fiscal stewardship as mayor, and as a fresh reminder of the affair before
Nathan became his third wife.
The campaign was rocked as news of the bills filled TV screens before the
national political press gathered in St. Petersburg, Fla., for last night's
GOP debate. A hush fell over the room as Giuliani campaign manager Mike
DuHaime and communications chief Katie Levinson turned away from reporters
to listen to the cable news chatter.
Asked about the report during the debate, Giuliani cited his need for a
24-hour security detail and said, "I had nothing to do with the handling of
their records, and they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly
appropriately."
[Another Ghouliani LIE, this a very obvious one! As mayor he always
compulsively micromanaged and insisted on control of every detail. Now he
says he had nothing to do with the records of what it is obvious he would
want to conceal.]
City regulations have long required that mayors be protected around the
clock, but the salaciously private nature of the trips may overwhelm Team
Giuliani's effort to cast the bills as legitimate security costs.
Joseph Lhota, a deputy mayor under Giuliani, said the expenses were put on
mayoral office credit cards and eventually covered by the NYPD before the
end of the fiscal year. As for why costs were allocated to agencies
irrelevant to mayoral security, Lhota said: "This is a practice that's gone
on for years. I have no idea why. It predates Giuliani."
An aide to Mayor Bloomberg agreed the use of mayoral credit cards and
eventual NYPD reimbursement is common. However, the aide could not confirm
it was past practice to shuffle costs among an alphabet soup of agencies.
Credit card bills and travel documents obtained by Politico show three
summers of Giuliani visits to Southampton, where Nathan had an apartment.
For example, the police billed the city $1,371.40 in August 2001 for a stay
at the Village Latch Inn in Southampton.
Politico said the 2001 travel expenses were billed to the Assigned Counsel
Administrative Office, involved in programs providing lawyers for the poor.
The records show the city controller's office began probing nonlocal travel
expenses incurred by Giuliani's office as his term was ending in 2001.
[A probe which probably helped motivate Giuliani's seizure of public mayoral
records, and their detention until laundered to his satisfaction.]
Auditors spotted $34,000 in expenses charged to the Loft Board, an obscure
mayoral unit. The board's head confirmed her office didn't incur any of
them.
Both the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations rebuffed auditors seeking an
explanation out of "security concerns," said Jeff Simmons, a controller
spokesman.
A confidential letter to Bloomberg in January 2002 by city Controller
William Thompson said auditors probed further and found Giuliani's office
spent $929,863 during fiscal years 2000 and 2001 on nonlocal travel-related
expenses. Of that total, $579,082 was assigned to obscure mayoral units.
[As the tip of Ghouliani's corruption iceberg comes into view and melts in
the heat, its massive body will rise to the surface. Stay tuned for further
developments! Hopefully America and the world will be spared the nightmare
of this potential Hitler becoming Commander-in-Chief.]
Potential Hitler? In the tyrant's own words:
" - FREEDOM IS NOT A CONCEPT IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DO ANYTHING
THEY WANT, BE ANYTHING THEY CAN BE. FREEDOM IS ABOUT AUTHORITY.
FREEDOM IS ABOUT THE WILLINGNESS OF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING
TO CEDE TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY A GREAT DEAL OF DISCRETION ABOUT
WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT."
- Mayor Giuliani, quoted in the New York Times, March 17, 1994.
"State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and order in
turn must conversely make possible the existence of state authority. Within
these two poles all life must now revolve...Ideas of 'freedom,' mostly of a
misunderstood nature, inject themselves into the state conceptions of these
circles." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
Berlin, Monday, Aug. 20, 1934 -- Eighty-nine and nine-tenths percent of the
German voters endorsed in yesterday's plebiscite Chancellor Hitler's
assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other ruler
in modern times. Nearly 10 per cent indicated their disapproval. The result
was expected.
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: MORE GIULIANI CORRUPTION EXPOSED! |
29 Nov 2007 04:35:50 PM |
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Boy, Hillary's corps of Private Detectives of Personal Destruction have been
busy as all get out.
Someday, someone is going to shoot her and even the score.
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| User: "Freedom Fighter" |
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| Title: Re: MORE GIULIANI CORRUPTION EXPOSED! |
30 Nov 2007 07:34:40 PM |
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"Docky Wocky" <mrchuck@lst.net> wrote in message
news:a9H3j.42763$dh.28181@trnddc05...
Boy, Hillary's corps of Private Detectives of Personal Destruction have
been
busy as all get out.
Someday, someone is going to shoot her and even the score.
Did you know, malicious troll, that the FBI and Secret Service watch the
Internet for such implied threats as yours above?
Maybe you'll get a visit soon. It would teach you something about free
speech in America.
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: MORE GIULIANI CORRUPTION EXPOSED! |
30 Nov 2007 08:12:01 PM |
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fleedom fighter sez:
"Did you know, malicious troll, that the FBI and Secret Service watch the
Internet for such implied threats as yours above?
Maybe you'll get a visit soon. It would teach you something about free
speech in America..."
___________________________
Gee. Thanks for the tip...
Don't worry, Pops. They'll have to pull out my fingernails with pliers
before I'll tell them I work for you.
Signed, Malicious Troll
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