Did Rudy Bury Cost Of Trips To Mistress?
Report: Giuliani Billed Security Expenses To Obscure NYC Agencies
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Play CBS Video Video Giuliani's Expenses Questioned According to Politico.com, Giuliani billed obscure city agencies thousands in travel expenses for trips to the Hamptons town where his future wife resided. Byron Pitts reports.
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Video King: Rudy Did Nothing Wrong Giuliani supporter Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., responds to a report that the ex-N.Y.C. mayor billed obscure agencies for security when he began seeing Judith Nathan. King: "Nothing was done improperly."
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Video Republican Mud Slinging Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are drawing attention to each other's faults every chance they get. Byron Pitts reports on all the jabs.
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Former New York Mayor and 2008 prospective presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani and wife Judith Nathan speaks attend his first New York City fund-raiser March 14, 2007 in New York City. (Getty Images/Mario Tama)
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According to Politico.com, in 2000 - as Giuliani was beginning the not-so-secret extramarital marital relationship with Judith Nathan, the woman who eventually became his third wife - he billed obscure city agencies thousands of dollars in expenses for his police security detail in the Hamptons off Long Island, where Nathan was living.
For example, in one instance, $34,000 worth of travel expenses were placed in the budget for the New York City Loft Board.
"These were records that the city comptroller tried to get in the past, but the mayor's office said they couldn't be released because of security," Politico.com's Mike Allen told CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts.
Giuliani's campaign had this response, calling the story a non-issue.
"This is common practice," the campaign said in a statement. "The NYPD is responsible for providing security for the mayor of New York around the clock."
"It’s clearly the responsibility of the NYPD to provide the mayor’s security around the clock and that’s what they did,” Giuliani spokesperson Maria Comella told CBS News.
But the question isn't about his security detail. It's about how the expenses were billed.
"It's coming out at the worst possible time for Rudy Giuliani, just as voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are beginning to make up their minds finally," said University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. "It reinforces his biggest problem, which is not just his liberal positions on social issues, but also the fact that he's had a very messy private life."
Giuliani was asked about the story at Wednesday night's Republican debate.
"First of all it's not true," he said. "I had 24-hour security for the 8 years I was mayor. They followed me everyplace I went. It was because there were threats, threats I don't generally talk about. Some of them have become public recently, most of them haven't. And they took care of me and they put in their records and they handled them the way they handled them. I had nothing to do with the way they handled their records. And they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly appropriately."
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These people have lied so much they don''t even bother to make up something that makes sense anymore because the republicans will believe whatever they throw out there.
Where are you brains???
He has done more harm to the Peoples House than any President ever.
But, Rudy is talking about even lower corporate taxes, mainstream media is controlled by corporations, hence you will see little press on this topic.
Liberal media my a**!
Posted by bflong at 06:12 PM : Nov 29, 200
We certainly know now who is controlling the media I hope some big shot on the news gets fired and then we will know what the heck is going on with this media that only report news that the local news can take care of.
Who was his 24 hr. protection For the life of me I can not think of that chief that just got indicted Kurick or something like that he is in cuhoots with the whole crooked shabang
Since Clinton left office we''ve had to suffer through 7 horrendous years of Bush, Bush''s failures, lies, deceptions, bush''s bankrupting the federal reserves and taxpayer accounts, destruction of our military personnel and now you DARE -- DARE to raise clinton to find some way to justify Rudy cooking the books of the Office of Mayor of NYC???
Son, at some point you are going to have to ask yourself this: *** is wrong with me????
sorry but only an ididot could think that Rudy''s response made sense. his response was circular nonesense.
Yes, the police provide security. BUT -- BUT -- and here''s where you goofed -- it was the Mayor''s budget and only the Mayor''s office could have the authority to tell the Mayor''s Office Management responsible for accounting to move the expenses to those agencies.
That was headline news the day it broke. Even though the story came out through the National Enquirer and while Ms. Flowers certainly had an affair with Mr. Clinton she also named dates and hotels where they supposedly met where the hotel she named did NOT even exist on that date - so at a minimum her claims were exaggerated (probably for the $100,000 check from the National Enquirer).
Here we have a case where Rudy set up liaisons on government dollars and in the terrorist response center he decided should be put within walking distance of City Hall at the World Trade Center (wink wink)!
But, Rudy is talking about even lower corporate taxes, mainstream media is controlled by corporations, hence you will see little press on this topic.
Liberal media my a**!
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Rudy Giuliani tied to ''superhighways''
Law firm represents consortia funding NAFTA-related routes
Posted: May 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
) 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
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Questions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani''s policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Trans-Texas Corridor 35, which is identified as part of the I-35 "NAFTA Superhighway."
Although he opposed NAFTA in 1993, Giuliani recently declined to call for building a fence on the United States border with Mexico, and he has supported a guest-worker program.
Columnist Michelle Malkin also has documented that while mayor of New York City, Giuliani kept the municipality a sanctuary city for illegal aliens, adhering to a policy first established by Mayor Ed Koch in 1989.
Now comes a new report about Giuliani''s involvement with public-private-partnership projects that include NAFTA Superhighway funding and his open borders record on immigration questions, all of which could undermine his otherwise tough policy on terrorism that has resulted from the 9/11 role Giuliani played in managing New York City''s response to the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Law firm represents consortia funding NAFTA-related routes
uestions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani''s policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Trans-Texas Corridor 35, which is identified as part of the I-35 "NAFTA Superhighway."
Although he opposed NAFTA in 1993, Giuliani recently declined to call for building a fence on the United States border with Mexico, and he has supported a guest-worker program.
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Except that this is false, mike. Neither was he a felon nor was he pardoned. Sure, he gamed the system to avoid service, but this other stuff is simply false. See Snopes.com for more.
Posted by shingles1 at 11:29 AM : Nov 29, 2007
What the he11 has Clinton got to do with this, every time one of your guys get in trouble, which has been a lot lately, hard to keep up, and what do you say about it, instead of denouncing it if it is correct, you bring out Clinton, like well, Clinton did it so he can do it.When will we say if you did it you deserve to be punished.
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Exactly Giuliani is a double talker and he needs to get this out there and get the very questions you just askrd answered before they come up with more double talk to protect the first double talk. He is Loser and made Millions off a tradergy
Rudy didn''t personally code these expenses to these obscure city agencies, someone directed an accountant from the NYC OMB to do this. That is the person we need to hear from.
Was it former Deputy Mayor Joe Lhota? Can he explain this?
Robert M. Harding and Adam L. Barsky both served as Director of the NYC Office Of Management and Budget under Giuliani. Can either of them come forward and explain this creative accounting, where all of these the funds were coded and who instructed OMB to code these expenditures in this manner?
I CAN SEE WHERE THE REPUBS LIKE THIS GUY. MORE OF THE SAME OLE LIES AND DECEPTIONS.
STAYYYYYYYYYYYYY THE COURSE...............
Posted by SgtRDS at 10:29 AM : Nov 29, 2007
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So why the question mark, the amount for the year was a 600K figure and this line is the story. The only thing left to debate would be if it the soon to be third wife was the only reason but that doesn%u2019t really matter does it the expense were not in plain site. I am sure we shall soon hear that it was the indicted felon and Rudy crony Bernie Kreiks fault....Imagine what else is out there yet to come out %u2026.this man is a fatally flawed candidate and only the red righties bias against anyone not Republican would imagine the country would elect this man, who charged the tax payers of NY almost a million dollars for his BOOTY CALLS to the future wife%u2026.
If this was a Democrat, the Republicans would be screaching.
If there was nothing wrong with what he did then why did he try to hide the expenses from auditors?
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Posted by denn034 at 12:53 PM : Nov 29, 2007
I could care less that Rudy can not keep it zipped, but he stole tax payer money to fund his travel for his tryst, Politico showed 600K in a year. NY may not of course care but I do not want a President using my tax dollars for his BLOWERS. At least Clinton had the decency to overlap by working at his office. Oh I forgot so did Rudy he was also courting one of the Deputies in his office as well%u2026..if I were a tax payer of NY during that time I would file a suit like Paula Jones and dispose the whole lot of the crooks.
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