Don't say I nevva did nuttin' for ya!
Posted on 11/26/2007 12:04:27 PM PST by calcowgirl
Sayme ta yew, their BLOBDANAYLER!!! (hick!) Wur is that crazy Lastmutazi, these daze, anawaze???
Don't mind the Waspman, he's been a hittin' the stingers to hard today.
I’m GRIEVING over what happened ta my investitures taday!!! Have yew gotnee booze ovur atchur howse taday??? Mine’s awl gon!!!
Don't say I nevva did nuttin' for ya!
Fresh outta booze, but I got sumpin' better, an don you go a tellin' any o these wild eyed FReepers. It's called SHINE, jack, thas raght, Kaintucky Kewl-aid, Ethanol fer shur, Jethro. I was a in mah back yahd just a shootin' at some jews, an ah hit a silver tank in the kohpohrate owned 40 next door. It sprung a leak an now ah gots me hunnerts a gallons of de stuff. Whooooeeee.
Now ah don cair tha mah CITI just dumped 30% and mah boy lil Robbie Rubin ain't no golden boy no more, nahsirrr.
BWAAAAaaaahahahahaha. Ya stung ‘im cowgirl.
Geez... I hope I didn’t hurt him! ;-)
Yew cain’t hurt me!!! I bees unconscious!!! I’ll take a stein a that stinger stuff, if yew please... Thank ya vera mush... (vituperous belch!!!)
WOW — great find. Does this now make two separate Giuliani Partners engagements so far linked to organized crime figures (in addition to Giuliani’s link through the alleged mob ties of Kerik and others he appointed/hired)?? In addition, the gambling industry overwhelmingly has donated to Giuliani above any other donk or pubbie presidential candidate. Shady, to say the least.
If Giuliani has nothing to hide, then let him disclose the client lists of his various companies. His flack now says he can’t do so because his clients require confidentiality. However, previous reports say that it’s the other way around — it’s Giuliani Partners itself that required its clients to sign confidentiality agreements (one report on this is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051201270.html)
How in the world can a presidential candidate who is still involved with the firm he established not disclose basic details the clients with whom he works??? The conflict of interest and national security issues here are staggering, even if all these suggestively shady stories turn out to have a perfectly innocent explanation.
More, from the Wall Street Journal (just consolidating this on this thread — I think it’s also elsewhere on FR):
Rudy Giuliani is one of the few candidates ever to pursue the White House while maintaining a high-ranking role in a private-sector firm.
But since he became a candidate for president, the Republican front-runner has rebuffed all calls to disclose details about the clients and dealings of Giuliani Partners, the consulting firm he founded in 2002.
Some of those clients have controversial records. Among those he hasn’t disclosed is the government of Qatar, a Persian Gulf state to whom the firm provided security advice, according to the former U.S. ambassador there. Qatar is a strategic U.S. military ally and energy supplier, yet also a country that has been criticized for its conduct toward al Qaeda — a potential political pitfall for a candidate pitching himself as an uncompromising foe of Islamic terrorism.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119440640166884884.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
Honestly, I'm having trouble keeping them all straight. Last week it was Frank Fertitta. Now these Macau folks. I saw the thread on contributions from gambling interests--1/2 of those were from the Station Casinos bunch (Fertitta). The numbers were pretty small (total of $180K out of $50 million in contributions--not too staggering, IMO).
Thanks for adding that stuff to the thread. Reminders are good and I often learn new stuff. :-)
Thank YOU for keeping your eye on this ball and tracking down all this info. Again, it’s Clintonian — when you’re linked to so many widespread scandals, it makes it difficult to sort out the details and focus on any one of them.
I cannot understand how even GOP-ers who like Giuliani are willing to submerge the presidency in the steaming corrupt cesspool that surrounds him.
From Barron's, Nov 19, 2007:
A Macau joint venture, MGM Grand Macau, opens Dec. 18, and MGM will develop three hotels in Abu Dhabi that will earn revenue on properties wholly owned (and risks fully borne) by the government there. Its stock, near 87 today, has downside support at 84, given a Dubai state-owned investment group's agreement to buy up to 28 million shares at that price (as the two jointly develop the 76-acre CityCenter in Vegas).Yet MGM shares trade at just 31 times 2008 earnings, compared to 48 times for LVS and 40 times for Wynn. That discount persists even though MGM earned more than the other two combined in 2006.
Don't believe that's a sign of a Macau bubble? Then look at Melco PBL Entertainment (MPEL), a casino developer that lost money in 2006 and 2007 but recently opened Crown Macau and is planning the heavily touted "City of Dreams" in 2009. Billed, correctly, as a "pure play on Macau," Melco's Nasdaq-listed American depositary shares fetch 164 times 2008 earnings.
Ping.
EXCERPT By BRENDAN SCOTT, NY POST November 11, 2007
When Rudy Giuliani walked out of City Hall six years ago, he had $2 million in the bank and the moniker "America's mayor" on his résumé. Then came the book deals, the speaking tours and the partnership at a powerful Washington lobbying house. None, however, would prove more lucrative than the small consulting firm Giuliani and a dozen of his most trusted aides founded in 2002 in an angular glass tower at 5 Times Square. Most of the firm's top executives were in the mayor's "kitchen cabinet," including Bernard Kerik, his former police chief; Michael Hess, who served as the city's top lawyer; Anthony Carbonetti, chief of staff from '99-'01; Daniel Connolly, special counsel to the city's Law Department from '97-'01; Thomas Von Essen, former FDNY commissioner; and Dennison Young Jr., chief counsel during Giuliani's eight years as mayor.
Since its startup in 2002, Giuliani Partners has formed several subsidiaries, including an investment bank called Giuliani Capital Advisors - since sold - Giuliani Compliance Japan and security companies called Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety, which replaced Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety Asia. By the time Giuliani declared his run for president last spring, his namesake firm had grossed an estimated $100 million. The ex-mayor himself was worth of as much as $66 million.
But on the campaign trail he has been fending off questions about the shady clients, disgraced employees and murky business decisions. Nobody has been more problematic than Kerik, who rose from a job as Giuliani's driver during his 1993 mayoral campaign to head of the city's Correction Department and finally police commissioner. At Giuliani Partners, Kerik headed an affiliated security-consulting company. Controversy erupted after Giuliani recommended Kerik to President Bush, who nominated him be Homeland Security chief in 2004. Kerik abruptly withdrew his name, blaming tax issues involving a nanny, but reports soon surfaced about stock-option windfalls, connections with people suspected of dealing with the mob and extramarital affairs.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11112007/news/nationalnews/minding_his_business_639428.htm?page=0
ping to me for tonight.
And another troll posts yet another Mary Jacoby article against Giuliani.
Mary Jacoby is the wife of Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and Fusion as we now know was central to the seeding of the fake Steele Dossier used by the coup plotters against Trump.
ping to an old one.
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