The tax-paid security for Nathan began in 1999 before anyone knew Nathan existed. So how could there have been a threat to her that required 24/7 protection in 1999? Nathan's security detail was said to consist of seven detectives and plainclothesman and an unknown number of tax-paid police cars at her beck and call 24/7. Witnesses told reporters Nathan‘s NYPD security was like a valet-taxi service, not 24/7 "protection." Other witnesses said Nathan’s friends were also picked up and driven around town by tax-paid NYPD security assigned to her.
More importantly, did Nathan and Giuliani satisfy all the taxable issues here? The relevant tax evasion issues:
(1) The IRS views Giuliani providing private citizen Nathan with a car service as income which she should have reported and paid taxes on.
(2) Giuliani’s providing Nathan private security with government personnel should have been reported; Nathan should have paid the actual amount the officers were being paid (or declared the security at the fair market price equivalent to hiring private guards).
(3) When public officials and government personnel use public facilities - airplanes, cars, lodging - for private or political events they are required to pay for the value of those services back to the city/state/Feds.
Nathan is past the three year limit on additional assessments for income tax but there is no limit if the IRS suspects fraud and tax evasion.
Giuliani's visits to the Hamptons cost taxpayers at least $3,000 a day in NYPD salaries and overnight motel lodging, The Post first reported in 2000. The latest bit of odd accounting was uncovered when auditors for City Comptroller Bill Thompson spotted a $34,000 expense for out-of-city travel at the Loft Board. It was mysteriously marked "prepayment for FY [Fiscal Year] 2001." The board's director insisted the tab wasn't run up at the tiny agency, which regulates lofts entirely within the five boroughs.
When the auditors asked for an explanation, City Hall balked, Thompson said in a Jan. 24, 2002, confidential letter to Mayor Bloomberg, then in his fourth week on the job. "We could not confirm whether those charges represented legitimate travel expenses for these offices," Thompson wrote. Auditors kept digging and turned up $143,867 in nonlocal travel at 12 small mayoral agencies in fiscal 2000, including $10,054 attributed to the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities. That was on top of the $165,985 in "nonlocal travel" billed directly to the Mayor's Office.
The auditors also found an astonishing $400,000 tab in "nonlocal travel" in fiscal 2001 at the administrative office of the Assigned Counsel Plan, which assigns lawyers to destitute criminal suspects. Overall, Thompson reported that nonlocal-travel expenses surged from $245,896 in fiscal 2000 to $618,014 in fiscal 2001 - a 151 percent increase.
Giuliani was asked about the report at the last GOP debate. "I had 24-hour security for the eight years that I was mayor," he said, noting he faced death threats. "And they took care of me, and they put in their records, and they handled them in the way they handled them. I had nothing to do with the handling of their records, and they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly appropriately."
TPM will show us the way /sarc
I have heard enough!!! FRY THE B**TARD (Rudy G THAT IS)
WHAT ..??
Why should she have to claim anything ..?? Rudy was entitled to security protection .. no matter where he was or who he was with.
I think this is much ado about nothing.
And .. NO .. I’m not supporting Rudy.
The American wild turkey is a textbook example of cooperative courtship, where subordinate male turkeys help dominant males attract a mate, even though they themselves do not get a chance to breed.
For example, in the wild turkey population that Krakauer studied at UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reserve in Carmel Valley, Calif., male turkeys typically paired up to follow groups of females and display in front of them. Both males would blush brilliant red and blue about the face and throat, fan their colorful tails and drop their wings, but only the dominant male would perform the classic strut – shuffling his feet and emitting a low drumming noise.
“While the dominant male was strutting, however, the subordinate might continue to display, like a back-up singer, or even chase away other males that got too close,” Krakauer said.
“Basically, since subordinate males and dominant males share some proportion of their DNA, the subordinate males benefit indirectly by helping their relative breed,” Krakauer said. “A subordinate partner gains more by giving help than it would by going off on its own and trying to breed by itself.”
He also looked for other possible benefits to the subordinate males, since in the case of two other birds thought to exemplify kin selection, other benefits were found to outweigh kin selection. In a group of New World tropical birds called manakins, subordinate males were found to help dominant males attract mates because they would eventually inherit the mating territory, which is jealously guarded.
From http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/02_turkeys.shtml
It is good to be the King.
BTW - there’s quite a piece in the current (Jan) issue of Vanity Fair mag about Juli
BTW, I went to the TPM website, they sure have Rooty nailed. Article after article of his malfeasance and mis-use of public funds spent on and for his mistress.
Also, as 'someone' posted (post was deleted), left-wing site or not, facts are facts and outing documenting Rooty and Judi's criminality sure isn't "slander". Plus it's not like the RNC is going to issue press releases on Rooty's shenanigans and bookkeeping tricks. And personally I don't care where the facts are published. The Peoples Daily or the NY Post,'Facts' being the operative word.
And I'll say it again (and keep saying it) - the U.S. Attorney, Michael J. Garcia, Southern District of NY, better get off his butt and start digging into this. And if he has a conflict due to a personal relationship with Rooty, then I offer up the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of IL, Patrick Fitzgerald, as Special Prosecutor to do the job. He worked with Rooty but Fitz would put his own grandmother in Prison so that's no issue. He's cleaning up Chicago and IL political corruption on a daily basis (he got the Mob and Pols of both parties and is still going for more, like our ijit Gov) - he could take Rooty and Judi down for this in a 'New York Minute'.
In addition, let's say Rooty does get elected POTUS (heaven forbid). Does anyone think the Dems are going to let this stuff go? Hell no, it will be investigation, after investigation, after investigation, and then impeachment. It'll be Whitewater and Watergate rolled into one.
If Rooty had an ounce of decency he'd withdraw N-O-W. He's a disgrace as a 'republican' and he's a disgrace as a person.
Kindly excuse the long response time, I type really slooooooow and edit a lot.
Bump!