Posted on 12/02/2007 7:32:23 AM PST by Liz
A former Giuliani administration official says he's "sick" that his little-known agency was used to hide taxpayer money that funded police escorts during the ex-mayor's Hamptons romantic rendezvous. "The cover-up and explanations have been so disingenuous," said Brendan Sexton, Procurement Policy Board Chair in 2000.....which was charged $29,757 for travel bills racked up by Giuliani's security detail as he hung out with then-girlfriend Judith Nathan on Long Island. "It's disturbing that any government organization could be used to conceal from the public how their money was being spent."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
(1) It's not the security detail's expenses that are at issue here; it's the EXTRA POLICE EXPENSES that married Rooty incurred for his assignations with a mistress; expenses Rooty calculatedly hid in obscure agencies.
(2) Every NYC mayor gets a security detail 24/7 which is a standard budget item, as is 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, he was married and porking his mistress. Bad enough---but the cover-up is what's at issue here. The malfeasance committed, calculatedly intended to cover-up that 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---and THAT's why these expenses had to be buried.
(5) Moreover, Rooty assigned his mistress a police car and driver, a police detail to guard her NYC apartment building and her Hamptons condo......that she was not entitled to. All at taxpayers' expense.
And all of it IN EXCESS of what the married Mayor was already allotted for security for himself and his family.
do we really want a republican Bill Clinton?
The only suprise is that this is coming out now, and not after the primary, should he win.
What’s the big deal? This sort of corruption is normal. I’m no JooiAnnie fan, but big deal. I’d take that sort of corruption any day over the current local corruption to the tune of a billion dollars for a worthless soccer stadium in Sandy, Utah of all places. In fact, I’ll help pay for the trysts if all the city councilmen and the mayor will go spend the next two years in Jackson Hole and leave us the frack alone.
The part that I found most troubling and revealing was his response to this at the debate. He acted like the accounting decision to charge it where it was charged was 20 rungs down the political ladder from him. He HOGS credit for everything positive that ever happened in or near NYC while he was Mayor, but he refuses to take responsibilty for significant accounting decisions involving his personal security. Maybe he thinks he is wearing the same suit of teflon the Teflon Don wore, but as I remember being charming to the press and winning the press’s loyalty had its limits for Mr. John Gotti. But hey, for Julie Annie the teflon has worn very well so far.
I had to laugh at that "so innocently" delivered statement. There is no need to intentionally Hide public money when the public has no idea where anything goes after it's in the hands of government. Pork barrel spending (by the way porking his mistress, crude) isn't even a term the majority of Americans recognize. Ask that question to define by pedestrians on the street.
The tryst fund is anti-Rudy news desperately trying to gain limp legs off an old dance card of Rudy's affair. Since those days, his popularity has grown hundredXXXfold. Won't change the vote of anyone who plans on supporting him. This is a story that the Daily Kos has tried to focus attention on.
Great "Kosifed" story to gnaw on by the Hate Rudy crowd, but has nothing to do with global warming so even the Kos group won't pick up their gauntlet and linger.
(and no I have not decided on my vote)
Oh, snap——I was praying you Rooty fellaters wouldn’t show up on this thread (might think these people’d be afraid of getting one of Rooty’s STDs).
“Tip of the iceberg,” buddy——that’s why this is relevant.
You can see and hear the dumbo Rooty fellaters nodding and saying, " No big deal. Every city budget has a provision to finance a married Mayor's sexual urges with other women."
Liz, keep them facts coming. I am loving it. You are a Patriot. (Not to mention relentless.)
Regards
Great post. You are "right on the mark".
Rudy LOVES to use numbers and statistics to 'wave his own flag' and 'pat himself on the back' every chance he gets. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to do so.
BUT,,,,if his ACCOUNTING is this misleading, and just PLAIN WRONG for his security,,,,then how accurate are those numbers that he LOVES TO FLAUNT????
New York State Comptroller, Alan Hevesi, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of defrauding the government, which carries a maximum penalty of 1 1/3 to four years in prison, for bilking the government by using state employees as drivers and personal assistants for his sick wife.
If Hevesi was prosecuted for using taxpayers’ money to provide chauffeurs and errand boys for his WIFE, why should Giuliani get away with doing it for some bimbo? The New York Attorney General should immediately seek a Grand Jury indictment of Giuliani.
Normal no. Common, more than likely. Not acceptable, definitely.
Giuliani's appeal was never based on him being a family man. I'm not a Giuliani supporter (for the primary - although I'll vote for him if he does become the GOP nominee), but I can say, as a New Yorker, that Giuliani's rep is based on being the Federal prosecutor who relentlessly went after Mafia dons and Wall Street crooks, as well as the mayor who turned NYC around. As a result of his efforts, New York City now has one of the lowest murder rates among the big cities (1m or higher). Secondarily, he did turn NYC's fiscal mess around. He socked it to the unions, and forced able-bodied welfare recipients to sweep the streets or do some other kind of work for the city if they wanted to receive benefits.
I hope that Rudy takes 'all the time he needs' to make that very point about himself!!...lol
>>>that Giuliani’s rep is based on being the Federal prosecutor who relentlessly went after Mafia dons and Wall Street crooks
Not all of them though, huh? Just the competition.
Glad you liked the thread.
Course the little RINO turd presents us with such a target-rich environment.
You can’t make this stuff up if you tried.
We now find that was the least of it.
There is absolutely NO excuse for this. And I don't care where this occurred, NYC or Keokuk, Iowa -- it AIN'T LEGAL -- period, end, stop.
An aside, I also see by the news that Bloomberg's current 'lady friend' gets NO NYPD protection or 'taxi service'.
Because he wasn't having his security people follow her around - he was having them follow him around. Which is what security people do for a living - they weren't protecting his mistress; they were protecting him.
I don’t think you’re keeping up with the story. I think it’s been discovered that the police were being used to “protect” the girlfriend even when Rudy wasn’t around. It could be that he thought she needed protection from his wife.
Hey, stockstrader---brilliant youtube vid idea you came up with.
I can see it all now---rolling out the endless city agencies billed to enable Rooty's porking his mistress.......and Rooty's voiceover: "What’s the big deal? This sort of corruption is normal."
ROTFL.
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