Posted on 03/29/2007 8:52:01 PM PDT by RDTF
Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.
Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr. Kerik, said he had no memory of the briefing, but he did not dispute that it had taken place, according to a transcript of his testimony.
Mr. Giuliani’s testimony amounts to a significantly new version of what information was probably before him in the summer of 2000 as he was debating Mr. Kerik’s appointment as the city’s top law enforcement officer. Mr. Giuliani had previously said that he had never been told of Mr. Kerik’s entanglement with the company before promoting him to the police job or later supporting his failed bid to be the nation’s homeland security secretary.
In his testimony, given in April 2006, Mr. Giuliani indicated that he must have simply forgotten that he had been briefed on one or more occasions as part of the background investigation of Mr. Kerik before his appointment to the police post.
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There is no evidence that Mr. Giuliani knew about the apartment renovation before promoting Mr. Kerik to police commissioner. But the top investigator who briefed Mr. Giuliani in 2000, the transcript shows, was aware that Mr. Kerik’s brother and a close friend had been hired by an affiliate of the company, which for years had been struggling to secure a city license.
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The transcript of Mr. Giuliani’s testimony was not given to The New York Times by any rival campaign.
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Remember what it was like under Reagan?
Thousands of homeless died every day, children withered away to nothing eating only ketchup for their government bought school lunches, women were beaten for even saying the word 'abortion', and a full blown nuclear war was just one drooling, slobbering, finger twitch away.
God I miss those days.
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Expect routine, daily, above the fold hit pieces about EVERY CANDIDATE EXCEPT HILDABEAST
from now until Nov '08
"Fred is more conservative and has less baggage and therefore is more electable."
Easy to say when playing it safe by sitting on the sides lines and avoiding the continual intense scrutiny subjected to by the declared candidates.
Now THAT is a personal attack, chump.
Do you really think Fred isn't getting serious scrutiny? There's just not much to attack.
If you'd like, I'll ping you to the threads I see that try to hack him up.
And calling me a troll wasn't? Please go away. I'm done.
Where did I ever call you a troll? I didn't. Be gone!
To: RDTF
You clearly do not understand the concept of FR. Be gone. Rudy-supporting liberals do not belong here. Take your abortion and anti-gun crap elsewhere.
I hate trolls.
56 posted on 03/30/2007 8:33:24 AM EDT by Fierce Allegiance
"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, New York Newsday pg A3 4/20/98
"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". -Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
LOL! I had forgotten how much "bad" stuff Reagan was responsible for.
I said I hate trolls. If you think you are a troll, then that would apply. I never called you a troll, though.
See, I told you you could use some help with comprehension.
Yawn. This is a big "so what?" story. Like Bush had connections to a company that had connections to Osama Bin Laden.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
The marchers in Rudy's parade are naturally starting to get somewhat testy.
The back end of the BANDWAGON is about to blow off.
Yep! Their 'man' has peaked, people are finding out the real deal about him, and are now starting to look for decent candidates like Hunter and Thompson.
I've tried to point that out to them . They have been going through their Rudy romance believing that he was going to somehow get a pass from the media.
Totally delusional. Rudy has a past on record. You just can't get away from that.
Substitute the word "Gay" for Conservative Republican.
And then imagine the identical quote from a mother about her son.
"He's definitely not a Gay. He thinks he is, but he isn't"
You will immediately see a mother in denial.
To Helen Giuliani, as to many older New York ethnics, Republican Conservative is close to being in league with the Devil.
That she would make a statement like that means there have been arguments over the issue with the mother not accepting her son's identification of himself.
If anything it means Rudy Giuliani think very much of himself- even back at the time of the quote- as a Republican and Conservative and his mother refuses to accept the fact.
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