Giuliani-Kerik Angle in Suit by Ex-Publisher (ordered to lie to protect Giuliani--caught on tape?)

Judith Regan, former book publisher, says a senior News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him NYC police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. --SNIP-- “Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “.....a senior News Corporation executive told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.”

One of Ms. Regan’s lawyers said she had evidence to support her claim that she had been advised to lie to federal investigators who were vetting Mr. Kerik and who might have sought to question her about their romantic involvement. The lawsuit does not say whether Regan was interviewed in the vetting of Kerik's fitness for the federal post.........

I guess with Uncle Rupert buying the WSJ, we won't be seeing anymore articles like this, although 2007 sounds eerily familiar:

REVIEW & OUTLOOK (Editorial): John V. Giuliani
Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Aug 1, 1989. pg. 1
The signs multiply that Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for Mayor of New York is faltering. ...
...Local pundits are complaining that the GOP "doesn't want to win," and the Giuliani campaign has just signed up Roger Ailes, who earlier quit the Lauder campaign on the grounds that it was nothing more than a stop-Giuliani effort. This raises the issue of whether elements of the national Republican Party will come through with backdoor aid for the Giuliani campaign on the grounds that he might be an electable candidate. The question is, what kind of Republican is Mr. Giuliani, if any?
GOP voters in Brooklyn and Queens no doubt remember the last Republican mayor of New York, John V. Lindsay. Elected as a Republican in 1965, Mr. Lindsay was defeated as an incumbent in the Republican primary in 1969. He went on to win re-election on the Liberal line, continuing the expansion of welfare bureaucracy, cave-ins to public-employee unions, ruinous tax increases and raids on the capital budget that propelled the city toward its brush with bankruptcy in 1975. Voters with such memories will have no trouble recognizing John V. Giuliani.
Mr. Giuliani wants the Republican nomination to add to the Liberal Party line with which he's already been endowed, so that he can call himself a "fusion" candidate.

"My political party put together with the liberal party can produce the kind of change New York City saw with Fiorella LaGuardia and with John Lindsay."

-- Rudy Giuliani, Boston Herald, Oct 21, 1993

Mr. Rockefeller represented "a tradition in the Republican Party I've worked hard to re-kindle - the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition."

-- Rudy Giuliani, New York Times, July 9, 1992

I guess with Uncle Rupert buying the WSJ, we won't be seeing anymore articles like this......although 2007 sounds eerily familiar......

The Giuliani pukes are stuck on stupid-----using the 1989 mayoral playbook. NYC is not the USA, dummies.

Giuliani is nothing more than a used-up wad of discarded gum stuck to your shoe you can't scrape off.

“But she wouldn’t be bringing these charges if she didn’t have the recordings she mentions.”

I agree... And she’s out for blood here. I’m not sure she’d even accept a settlement, if she thinks she can tear a pound of flesh out of NewsCorp. If she does have audio recordings, does the FEC get an opening to go after the company? I’m really not sure how media rules / election rules work together. Most papers will endorse a candidate, but this is different.

They’ve got to trash Regan because she’s got stuff that could hurt them, and she wouldn’t sit down and shut up when told. Murdock needs to maintain a facade of impartiality in regard to politics. Oh yeah, he’s for Hillary, and I’ve got beachfront property in Eastern Montana.

So, 24/7 Regan is a trashy, pushy bitch...you hate her...you are getting sleepy...

Theoretically they trashed her because the OJ book went over the top, and then crashed and burned.

But as you say, Judith Regan was a big money maker. In her business, nice guys finish last, and she was used to finishing first.

And I never heard that Murdoch worried too much about going over the top or getting too much publicity. I think both he and Regan understood that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

So, as you say, why did he fire her? Now maybe we’ll find out. Regan meant big money, but hillary’s enmity could mean even bigger money—down the drain.

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