Posted on 05/15/2007 5:50:15 AM PDT by Liz
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 firms have done business over the past five years, AP identified more than 175 as part of an expansive review of lobbying records, court filings and securities reports. Giuliani's law and lobbying clients have included Saudi Arabia, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and chewing tobacco maker UST Inc.
Traditional procedures for government officials to prevent ethical conflicts - expressly avoiding issues directly involving their former employer - would be unavailable for a commander in chief. It is unheard of for a president to promise to avoid a particular policy issue. Bracewell & Giuliani alone has thousands of clients but will name only a few dozen. Since Giuliani became a partner in spring 2005, it has reported lobbying on various issues the White House, the vice president's office, Congress and every Cabinet agency except the Department of Veterans Affairs, the AP review found........
Giuliani's corporate ties may dog him as Vice President Dick Cheney's past as chief executive of Halliburton Co., has followed him........Democrats accuse the Bush administration of playing favorites by awarding more than $19 billion in contracts to Halliburton's KBR unit for work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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How do you say “squeegee man” in Spanish? ;-)
Thuctheth ith Rudy’th middle name.
And did Rudy rid Mexico City of the stench of urine in the streets?
-——Casa del pee all-over dose loco grande gringos——
SQUEEGEE MAN!
Knight Ridder Tribune News Service. Washington: Aug 25, 2004.
MEXICO CITY — Julio Cesar Fuentes, a 38-year-old with a third grade education, has a lucrative career on Mexico City’s traffic- jammed streets, leaping at cars and squirting soap-foamed water to wash windshields.
But Fuentes, who earns the equivalent of $20 a day, may have to find a new occupation. Since Aug. 1, when a new “civic culture law” went into effect, window washers, car parkers, street vendors, clowns, fire-eaters and even children selling candy or flowers — all part of Mexico City life for decades — are subject to fines and jail time.
In a city of 20 million, with thousands of poor rural immigrants arriving each week and an unemployment rate that some estimates place as high as 50 percent, the new rules are jarring and controversial.
The new law — inspired by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s “zero-tolerance” campaign — reflects city officials’ belief that the free-for-all of the streets feeds Mexico City’s burgeoning crime wave. Giuliani was a paid consultant to the city on crime issues and made a number of proposals to clean up Mexico City.
And making a bold face lie about why the command/control center was located in the WTC is helping that thuctheth.
Rooty is all theater. He has created this tough image off the backs of others around him.
He is a manipulator and a liar, that has the nerve to dump on the people around him if they fail at keeping his public image to the script.
The only thing I can see he did at eliminating anything are ex wives and pesky kids of himself and Juti.
Yes, he did-—by making NY sanctuary city, illegals brought the stench to NYC
The other day on Fox News Sunday, Rudolph W. Giuliani blamed a former aide for the decision to put the city’s emergency command center at 7 World Trade Center, where it was destroyed on 9/11. Now the aide, Jerome M. Hauer, the former director of emergency management, has fired back, giving Lloyd Grove of New York magazine a February 1996 memo that shows he argued for a Brooklyn location. He says the mayor overruled him.
Here is what Mr. Giuliani said on Fox: "Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense. He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site. It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected."
Mr. Hauer’s memo to First Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers recommended the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn: “The building is secure and not as visible a target as buildings in Lower Manhattan.” The World Trade Center had been bombed three years earlier.
Mr. Hauer told Lloyd Grove in an interview: "Rudy’s getting a lot of heat for the decision. He’s trying to run on his homeland-security and national-security background, and if you start peeling back the skin on the errors he made when he was mayor, you take away a lot of the basis for his candidacy… I feel sad that he would betray somebody that had served him loyally in the past, and I’m angry, too. But when you get to know Rudy, you know that this is the kind of thing he does. That’s just his personality."
--SNIP--
Knight Ridder Tribune News Service. Washington: Aug 25, 2004.
While in the Mexican capital for his $4.3m (pounds 2.35m) consultancy, Mr Giuliani repeated his well-worn adage that cracking down on minor offences undermines an underlying culture of disrespect for the law, and so shuts down a major breeding ground of criminals.
Could this belief be successfully adapted to a mega city in a developing country with major problems of poverty and unemployment and an apparently deep psychological attachment to its own frenetic disorder?
Yes, the godfather of zero tolerance insisted.
His team released 146 recommendations in August last year, all of which Mexico City’s government promised to implement. A year later the new law, incorporating a sizeable batch of the recommendations, came into effect.
Many here are only dimly aware that the law even exists and few notice any major impact on their lives.
(snip)
Yet prostitutes are complaining that extortion by the police, an age-old problem, has risen since the new law, which gives officers increased powers to decide when selling sex on the street is a public nuisance.
So three months into the experiment, zero tolerance Mexico City- style appears to be backfiring.
A load of new rules to be happily broken by most, and exploited by some, can hardly have been what Mr Giuliani had in mind.
“Pass the buck?” Ya think?
Newsday, May 14, 2007.
(snip)
But Hauer said yesterday that it was Giuliani who made the final decision to put the command center so close to the Twin Towers even though they had been attacked in 1993.
Hauer said he first wanted a site in Brooklyn - in part because it would be well away from obvious terror targets in Manhattan - but that the mayor’s aides told him Giuliani wanted it to be within walking distance of City Hall. So he found the site on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center.
“He’s trying to question what I did, and what I did was simply follow his directions,” Hauer said yesterday in a telephone interview. “He’s got to stop trying to rewrite history, and he’s got to start being a little more truthful about what went on when he was mayor.”
Giuliani’s comments risk leaving the impression that he was seeking to pass the buck on a critical decision central to his response on 9/11 - something that could cut against the grain of his take-charge image.
And if Fred put foreign dollars into his pocket from unknown sources, I'd want to know also.
What is it with all of the folks that want to just put blinders on?
“(1) Giuliani Capital Advisors, LLC (AKA Giuliani Partners LLC), “
The more I read about these entities the more it looks like E&Y formed a new company shell that had rudys name on it for marketing purposes, and moved a few of e&y’s finance oriented groups under the name to form the core of the ‘new business.’
makes you wonder how e&y feel about the presidential bid, my guess is not happy, and another name change / ‘acquisition’ is in the works.
Rooty pathing the buck? No quethion.
LOL!
“Rooty pathing the buck? No quethion”
Rudy: “Quit exposhing me, you shilly citishen”
I watched it.....Rudy was horrible.....and he LIED like a rug!
You got that right.
The Washpo report indicated even though he is running for president, Giuliani refuses to identify his clients, disclose his compensation or reveal any details about Giuliani Partners.......and also declined to be interviewed about the firm.
So much for being upfront and candid with voters.
The WashPo provided some details, based "on a review of corporate, government and court records, along with scores of interviews with clients and government officials who have interacted with Giuliani Partners."
LOL——Rooty muth be having agita over FR poth.
” The WashPo provided some details, based “on a review of corporate, government and court records, along with scores of interviews with clients and government officials who have interacted with Giuliani Partners.”
Why hasn’t anyone asked E&Y? They own part of it.
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