Please tell me you are not serious, please! This was taxpayer money. He was married, this was his girlfriend !!!! He can pay for his own security for his girlfriend.
Let's keep in mind the most relevant details.... as this story unfolds:
(1) It's not the security detail's expenses that are at issue here; it's the EXTRA police expenses that Rooty incurred; expenses he calculatedly hid in obscure agencies.
(2) The NYC mayor gets a security detail 24/7 which is a standard budget item as was his family's security detail. If Rudy had simply stayed home with his wife and kids acting like the paradigm family man he conned the public into believing he was, HE WOULD NEVER HAVE INCURRED EXTRA EXPENSES for gas, hotels & meal per diems, and occasional airline bills. These bills exposed Rooty's extramarital activities and become fodder for the NY press (and the thing that probably sank his bid for US Senator).
(3) Yes, Rooty was married and porking his mistress. Bad enough---but the coverup is what's at issue here. The malfeasance committed intemded meant to coverup the married Mayor was getting it on with his mistress.
(4) Rudy's arrogance led him to feel entitled to subsidize his playmate with government funds.
(5) Rooty felt compelled to bury these expenses in obscure agencies.....that in itself is an admission of guilt.
(6) Rooty assigned his mistress a police car and driver, a police detail to guard her NYC apartment building and her Hampton's condo. Police also walked her dog and drove her friends around......all at taxpayers' expense.
And all of it IN EXCESS of what the married Mayor was already alotted for security for himself, and his family.