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Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips
Politico ^ | 112807 | By: Ben Smith

Posted on 11/28/2007 11:56:43 AM PST by Fred

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To: plewis1250

Drudge has it.

The Rudy supporters will just yawn and say so what?


21 posted on 11/28/2007 12:25:30 PM PST by JRochelle (Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA are at the reduced price of only $50.00!)
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To: Fred
"Honey, Isn't This A Hoot!"

"The Tax Paying Smucks Are Paying For This.
Where Ya Wanna Go Next Weekend .. Aruba?"

22 posted on 11/28/2007 12:27:44 PM PST by Condor51 (Rudy has more baggage than Samsonite)
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To: Fred

Rudy is a snake, not unlike Bill Clintoon.

America deserves better.


23 posted on 11/28/2007 12:31:29 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Badeye
‘It’s also impossible to know whether the purpose of all the Hamptons trips was to see Nathan. ‘

... this is nothing but a slimey political hit piece, the only important sentence in the entire screed is the one I copied in quotation marks above.

You're right--with Rudy's record, it could have been any woman--or man.

Looking at the politico documents, it appears they were weekend trips.

24 posted on 11/28/2007 12:33:52 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: TitansAFC
****Rudy is entitled ping.****

Rudy is entitled to be indicted - ping :-)

25 posted on 11/28/2007 12:34:41 PM PST by Condor51 (Rudy has more baggage than Samsonite)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Rudy is gonna kill the GOP if he gets the nomination.

He's doing a pretty good job, already.

26 posted on 11/28/2007 12:35:05 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Condor51; indylindy; calcowgirl; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; George W. Bush; Reagan Man; ...
"There is no really good reason to (conceal the Mayor's non-official travel bills in obscure city agencies) except to have nobody know about it," Carol O'Cleireacain, a Brookings Institution senior fellow.....said of the unusual billing practices.


The married father Giuliani and the married Nathan were an item
after Judy stalked Giuliani in a NYC cigar bar. They were seeing
each other in 2001, during the period when Rudy's mysterious
non-mayoral travel expenses were billed to obscure city agencies.
Photo: AP

EXCERPT (Giuliani's) first trip to Southampton appearing in the travel documents runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, 1999. Four police officers spent the night at the Atlantic Utopia Lifestyle Inn, according to an approval request for official out-of-city travel, billing the city $1,016.20.

Giuliani’s private schedule, available from the municipal archive, lists no events on Long Island that day.

The New York Post reported the following year that Giuliani "had long weekend visits with gal pal Judi Nathan at her Southampton, L.I., condo last summer, according to neighbors who said the mayor did little to conceal their relationship.” The neighbors called their relationship and their time in Nathan's two-bedroom condo overlooking Noyack Bay "an open secret.” "Several residents of the condo sometimes asked Giuliani's driver and members of his security entourage to turn off their car engines," the Post reported.

That first trip was followed by at least 10 more, according to the travel and credit card documents. One of those trips, on Aug. 20-21 of 1999, included a fundraiser on the evening of the 21st. Giuliani’s four-man detail arrived 24 hours early, billing the city $1704.43 at the Southampton Inn, according to their approval request.

More trips followed in the summer of 2000, after the mayor's affair with Nathan became public and they were seen together publicly in Southampton. The trips accelerated in the summer of 2001, when he visited Southampton every weekend in August, as well as on Sept. 2.

Many of the trips only show expenses for gas, though his police detail billed the city $1371.40 for the nights of Aug. 3-4 of 2001 at the Village Latch Inn in Southampton. Giuliani's police detail also spent a night in Palm Beach, Fla., according to the bill for the American Express card under Giuliani's name. The detectives spent $1714.99 at The Breakers, a sprawling hotel and resort. There is no indication that Nathan visited Palm Beach. Giuliani's aide did not recall the trip.

The 2001 travel expenses were billed to the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, a little-known unit of the mayor's office involved in programs that provide lawyers to poor defendants.

None of the 2001 trips to Southampton appear in Giuliani's official schedule. However, the schedule does contain a potential clue to his destination. Before three of them, Giuliani paid a visit to his barber, Carlo Fargnoli, on York Avenue near the mayor's official residence, Gracie Mansion.

27 posted on 11/28/2007 12:43:53 PM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Condor51

The married Rudy was getting sexually blitzed by his married mistress on the taxpayers’ dime.


28 posted on 11/28/2007 12:45:22 PM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Fred

29 posted on 11/28/2007 12:52:27 PM PST by B-Cause (“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it is free!”)
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To: Fred

‘I rather he get out of the race.’

(chuckle)

So I gather. I think you’ll have to wait til February 2nd or so.


30 posted on 11/28/2007 12:54:38 PM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Fred; Liz

Haaallloooo! Roooty?! This is your luv! JOOOOOTY!!!
Listen, get over here to da Hamptons! I need some luvin!!

I'll be right there Jooooty!
I'll charter a plane and charge it to my campaign.

31 posted on 11/28/2007 12:55:04 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: calcowgirl

(chuckle)

Incorrigble comes to mind, cowgirl....(chuckle)


32 posted on 11/28/2007 12:57:38 PM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Condor51

I agree, but can he be investigated and prosecuted for misappropriating the people of New Yorks money? He should be if he can’t prove he was doing the “peoples business” instead of “risky business” At the very least re-imburse the city.

The man appears to be a mob boss more than a Presidential Candidate, how anyone can take him seriously as a contender is beyond me.


33 posted on 11/28/2007 1:05:43 PM PST by Horusra
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To: SkyPilot

EEEEEEeeeeeewwwwwww.... That is not a nice-looking piece of strange Rudy dumped the wife for. You’d think “America’s Mayor” could do better.

BTW, the guy who said Billy Jeff Clinton is no worse than Rudy is clearly hyperventilating and verging on madness.

As much as I prefer Hunter, Romney, and Thompson (in that order) RG wouldn’t be 1/100th as destructive as another Clinton administration.


34 posted on 11/28/2007 1:15:40 PM PST by Burr5
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To: Fred
B U S T E D !

Then again, we all knew he was a smarmy scumbag, right?
35 posted on 11/28/2007 1:19:53 PM PST by this is my name not yours (Free speech is the escape valve that keeps some people from picking up a rifle.)
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To: Fred

The billings are for security detail’s travel expenses. The mayor’s security detail goes where the mayor goes. I missed the part where it says the mayor of NYC is forbidden to leave the city.


36 posted on 11/28/2007 1:20:31 PM PST by elli1
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To: Horusra
*** I agree, but can he be investigated and prosecuted for misappropriating the people of New Yorks money? ****

He suuure can.
The ex gov of IL, George Ryan (RINO), is now sitting in a Federal Prison for doing less with the peoples money and on the peoples dime.

Now the Federal Prosecutor for the Souther District of New York (Manhattan) needs to start issuing subpoenas of those records. And I can't imagine Schumer not screaming for an investigation.

37 posted on 11/28/2007 1:21:31 PM PST by Condor51 (Rudy has more baggage than Samsonite)
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To: Liz
**** The married Rudy was getting sexually blitzed by his married mistress on the taxpayers’ dime. *****

If the Rudybots support him after this - they need their head examined. This is not a 'moral' or 'values' issue this is freaking criminal.

And any politician or celebrity who endorsed him better start backtracking pdq. This "isn't about sex", nor is it a "personal matter".

38 posted on 11/28/2007 1:27:04 PM PST by Condor51 (Rudy has more baggage than Samsonite)
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To: Fred
Rudy sure knows how to 'milk' the system. After all, you can hide ANYTHING under the guise of 'security'. It would be hard to find another candidate with as much baggage as Rudy.

Heck, I bet that even SLICK is impressed with Rudy's ability to cheat on his wife, FLAUNT IT,,,,and milk the system while doing it!!!

39 posted on 11/28/2007 1:31:02 PM PST by stockstrader (We need a conservative who will ENERGIZE the Party, not a liberal who will DEMORALIZE it!)
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To: Fred
Why do I see the nasty hand of the Hildabeast in this article?

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Additionally see anti-Rudy folks in force in the first ten postings... coincidence??? I think NOT...> smirk <

Hildabeast needs to come clean... Show the documents that she is hiding... Then throw a bitch fest on another candidate who's worse than she is... BUT we know she can't and won't do that.

And like poor misunderstood nitwit John Kerry... who still won't sign the SF 180, the Hildabeast will go down in flames.

Americans like transparency.

40 posted on 11/28/2007 1:33:13 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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