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......... as the ex-mayor tells Republicans he's mulling a run for NY governor...... his company Giuliani Partners is under discussion in political circles......his business dealings was fodder for opposition research during his failed 2008 run. Giuliani's once-thriving consulting firm is on the ropes, heavily pared down after his aborted campaign........client list has thinned...partners have left, staffers let go. Giuliani is there infrequently, working the speaker's circuit and making international trips...spending much of his time at Bracewell and Giuliani law firm. Giuliani Partners claims it has fewer but higher-priced clients----in India, Japan and Qatar----and that the security and safety division has...

Giuliani Partners, Rudy's consulting firm, has laid off staffers as the business is reshaped after his failed presidential campaign........layoffs involved at least five administrative staffers.

April 1, 2005 Good Jobs New York Releases List of Wage Tax Credits Recipients That Include Giuliani Partners, Ernst & Young, Fox News and News America Contact: Stephanie Greenwood, Good Jobs New York Bettina Damiani, Good Jobs New York Companies Certified Prior to the June 2004 Sunset of a Little Known and Badly Misused Tax Break Are Back in the Money Unpublicized Rider to Empire Zones “Reform” Legislation Allows Firms Certified for Zone Equivalent Area or ZEA Wage Tax Credits Prior to June 2004 to Receive Up to Five (5) Years of Benefits Despite Program’s Expiration April 1, 2005 –...

On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich. The letter he dispatched to the city Conflicts of Interest Board that day asked permission to begin forming a consulting firm with three members of his outgoing administration. The company, Giuliani said, would provide "management consulting service to governments and business" and would seek out partners for a "wide-range of possible business, management and financial services"...

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s consulting firm was hired in 2002 to help a Florida company build its business under a contract that called for Mr. Giuliani’s firm to be paid in part for lining up work with the federal government and other clients, company records show. Federal law prohibits payment of a commission in return for a federal contract... The deal between the firm and the contractor, Seisint of Boca Raton, was signed with the expectation that Mr. Giuliani’s high profile and connections would help the start-up company obtain federal contracts as well as nongovernment work, said Michael Brauser, co-founder of...

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Mayor Giuliani says on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he won’t put out a list of clients (“confidentiality agreements”) and won’t sever his ties to Giuliani Partners: “I'm an owner. We do all of the financial disclosures. I did a complete financial disclosure I think in May. I'll do some more complete financial disclosures, but I'm not doing more than what is absolutely required.” ALSO: “My wife, Judith, honestly, would prefer not to have security.” AND: If he loses New Hampshire and South Carolina, “I’m in. … You want to be there for Feb. 5 when we will have more...

Presidential Candidate Giuliani's Partner Linked to Bribery Case When Hank Asher reached into the bag and pulled out the two $15,000 gold Cartier watches, the holiday crowd at Carmine's restaurant on 44th Street in Manhattan noticed, patrons recalled. Later, so did the U.S. attorney in Orange County, Calif., and soon yet another of Rudy Giuliani's business partners was embroiled in a bribery case. Asher, identified by the initials H.A. in Overt Act 59 of a federal grand jury indictment against Orange County sheriff Michael Carona, had handed the diamond-encrusted Cartier baubles to the wives of the sheriff and his deputy,...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has stepped down as head of his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, after months of refusing to disclose the firm's clients or the role he played. Giuliani's spokeswoman, Sunny Mindel, says the former New York City mayor has been replaced as chairman by Peter Powers, a longtime friend and former aide. The firm was started when Giuliani left City Hall. It earned him around $4 million last year. The spokeswoman did not say whether he would retain his interest in the company. While insisting the firm's client list was confidential, Giuliani...

A partnership Rudy Giuliani forged with a wealthy diamond-trading family from Israel helped his effort to expand his fledgling consulting business in Japan, and generated more than $600,000 in speaking fees for the Republican presidential candidate. The former New York mayor's previously undisclosed relationship with the Sage Capital Growth -- a medium-size private equity firm associated with the diamond-trading Steinmetz family of Israel -- shows how money came his way after he earned international acclaim leading the city through the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It offers a peek at Mr. Giuliani's closely held five-year-old consulting business, New York-based Giuliani...

How much exactly would it cost to get Rudy Giuliani to holster his overdone 9/11 sanctimony? The government for the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar might have a good idea. Following earlier reports that Giuliani was still getting paid by the consulting firm he created, Mary Jacoby of the Wall Street Journal sheds light on some potentially problematic sources of Giuliani's private income. Chief among them is Qatar, the U.S. ally that paid Giuliani Partners for "security advice" regarding their petroleum facilities. The article uncovers a "potential political pitfall" for Giuliani's candidacy and image given Qatar's spotty record in...

TIES THAT BIND Against the advice of some of his campaign advisers, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has kept a suspended Catholic priest and childhood friend on the payroll of Giuliani Partners as a consultant. The priest has been caught up in the continuing sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Msgr. Alan Placa, who was suspended from his priestly duties back in 2002 and who has also served as a practicing attorney, has worked on a consulting basis with Giuliani Partners. In 2003 a grand jury in Suffolk County, New York, accused Placa of sexually abusing multiple victims....

Nine days after registering his presidential exploratory committee last November, Rudolph Giuliani appeared in Singapore to help a Las Vegas developer make a pitch for a $3.5 billion casino resort. Though the bid ultimately failed, and there was nothing illegal about the involvement, it drew Giuliani into a complex partnership with the family of a controversial Hong Kong billionaire who has ties to the regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il and has been linked to international organized crime by the U.S. government. ... Giuliani's public involvement in the gaming bid began at a September 2006 news conference in Singapore...

When Giuliani walked out of City Hall six years ago, he had $2M in the bank.....Then came book deals, speaking tours and partnership at a powerful Washington lobbying house. None would prove more lucrative than the small consulting firm Giuliani and his most trusted aides founded in 2002 in an angular glass tower at 5 Times Square. Since 2002, Giuliani Partners has formed several subsidiaries--Giuliani Capital Advisors - an investment since sold - Giuliani Compliance Japan and security companies called Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety........ By the time Giuliani declared for president last spring, his firm grossed an estimated...

He has a close friend at the White House and an international profile unlike any achieved by a former New York City mayor. Now, Rudolph W. Giuliani and his security consulting firm should soon have another advantage: a former business partner in charge of a sprawling government department that buys $7 billion a year in homeland security goods and services. The move by Bernard B. Kerik from the Times Square offices of Giuliani Partners to Washington, where he has been nominated to become secretary of Homeland Security, will present both an opportunity and a challenge for the former mayor, other...

Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties. The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events. "This man did unjust things, and he's being...

Energy companies, FBI agents, a media tycoon and even a candlemaker: Rudy Giuliani's firm has lobbied for them all and dozens more in Washington, opening the door to a wide range of potential conflicts of interest should he become president. If Giuliani were elected, his administration would be on the receiving end of regulatory requests, contract bids and policy proposals by the same clients of his Houston firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, that have contributed toward his personal net worth of millions of dollars. Although he has so far declined to identify all the companies with which Bracewell and his other...

Questions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Trans-Texas Corridor 35, which is identified as part of the I-35 "NAFTA Superhighway." Although he opposed NAFTA in 1993, Giuliani recently declined to call for building a fence on the United States border with Mexico, and he has supported a guest-worker program. Columnist Michelle Malkin also has documented that while mayor of New York City, Giuliani kept the municipality a sanctuary city for illegal...

On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich. The letter he dispatched to the city Conflicts of Interest Board that day asked permission to begin forming a consulting firm with three members of his outgoing administration. The company, Giuliani said, would provide “management consulting service to governments and business” and would seek out partners for a “wide-range of possible business, management and financial services”...

A major pharmaceutical client of Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to doctors and patients about the addiction risk of the painkiller OxyContin.....federal prosecutors called it one of the nation's worst prescription-drug scandals ever.....could be a painful hit to Giuliani...... Purdue Pharma touted OxyContin as a low-risk miracle drug that relieved pain and was less addictive than other drugs. But the opposite was true.......OxyContin is derived from the opium poppy and is very addictive........ Purdue Pharma and its top officers agreed to pay $634.5 million in fines. The illegal promotions of the drug occurred 1996-2001. Giuliani Partners...