Posted on 11/29/2007 2:12:31 PM PST by Fred
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani.
New York papers reported in 2000 that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani's third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time.
The former city officials said Giuliani expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.
The former officials told ABCNews.com the extra costs involved overtime and per diem costs for officers traveling with Giuliani to secret weekend rendezvous with Nathan in the fashionable Hamptons resort area on Long Island.
When the New York City comptroller began to question the accounting, Mayor Giuliani's office declined to provide details to city security, officials told ABCNews.com today.
"The Comptroller's Office made repeated requests for the information in 2001 and 2002 but was informed that due to security concerns the information could not be provided," a spokesperson for the comptroller's office said.
Appearing in public for the first time today, Giuliani told ABC News the accusations he assigned a police security detail to his mistress and helped to hide the expenses in the mammoth New York City budget "a pre-debate hit job."
"I'm sorry, but I still don't understand why they filed these expenses the way they did," he said.
Former officials close to Giuliani say he had "zero" to do with how the police security expenses for Judith Nathan, who he since married, were accounted in the city budget.
The Giuliani campaign said it would also provide a former deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, to respond to the allegations later today.
Giuliani is expected to appear on CNBC at 6 p.m. today to answer questions about the accounting procedures.
This post has been updated.
Do you have a tip for Brian Ross and the Investigative Team?
I’m sorry, sir, but that is just nuts.
Best regards,
Would you like to ping Jim to tell him so, or should I?
But until then, care to specify what you mean?
Rudy went out of his way in the 1990s to tell us how alike he and Bill Clinton on matters of policy. Is it “just nuts” to remember that?
Rudy’s administration laundered money to hide his affairs. He knowlingly promoted a mobbed-up pal of his to police commissioner (and later got him nominated for head of Homeland Security). Rudy’s personal life is a mess, and his administration was corrupt. The only difference between him and Bill Clinton is a matter of degree.
You go tattle all you want. While you’re at it, you can explain about your saying they are exactly the same in one post and that there’s a difference in degree in another. If there’s a difference in degree, there’s a difference, so you are now accepting my point.
Have yourself a great weekend.
It really bothers me that he’s always saying I reduced crime, and I did this and I did that instead of giving credit where credit is due. If he were not such a ham, he would be saying, under my leadership crime was blah blah blah. Just one of the reasons I can’t stand him. I guess being a stinkin cheater is the other main reason.
Pat Robertson now has an excuse to withdraw his endorsement.
While you’re at it, you can explain about your saying they are exactly the same in one post and that there’s a difference in degree in another. If there’s a difference in degree, there’s a difference, so you are now accepting my point.
Nice try, but grasping at semantics tends to scream out loud that you don't have a substantive argument. Good bye.
Well said.
Of course I wouldn’t have voted for Rudy regardless.
It’s typical NYC politics.
If you don’t blow your own horn, then there won’t be any music.
However, folks outside of NYC take it seriously. They really believe him.
Better to get all the dirt out before the nomination, or Hillary! will get it out afterwards.
This Rudy guy is just too dirty.
This guy is a taker, disrespectful of taxpayers, that’s all I need to know.
Just say NO to rudy!
“If there is any issue at all, then it’s not whether Rudy should have been protecting Judi, but whether he should have been sweating up the sheets with her.”
That’s the first issue. The second is the coverup. If he wasn’t doing #1, then #2 wouldn’t exist.
Hillary would have beeat Rudy by a landslide. He's DIRTY.
that makes it ok? whoremongering while still marryied is ok so long as you eventually marry the mistress?
Impossible. Police officers shower and don't yell in Farsi into a Bluetooth while making a left turn from the right lane.
“Hillary would have beeat Rudy by a landslide. He’s DIRTY.”
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH REALLY! /s
Both are used Cat Litter.
Nancy Pelosi uses the US Air Force as taxi service.
Just to put this in perspective.
It’s big here in CA too, our Governator is always talking about ll the great things he has done overlooking all the damage he’s done, and same thing, everywhere else folks think he’s great, but he leaves a lot to be desired.
The more miles you get from the pol’s home state/city — the more image counts over substances.
People heard Rudy talking tough about crime and saw NYC crime stats go down, so they assumed he was responsible.
People saw him walking around Ground Zero and assumed he was in charge of the whole sheebang.
These are easy assumptions to make, but they belittle the efforts of thousands of hardworking people.
I thought the ‘New Yorks Finest Taxi Service’ was for smugglers...
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