"Good points-——how stupid to think he could keep this secret. He’s so shady he lets Hillary look angelic.'American’s Mayor' is a two-bit oversexed fraud"
Posted on 11/29/2007 2:49:44 AM PST by Liz
Giuliani tapped budgets of obscure city agencies to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses in 1999 and 2000 when the married Mayor was secretly dating future wife Judith Nathan according to a sensational report.....
Auditors spotted a $34,000 expense for out-of-city travel at the Loft Board. The board's director insisted the tab wasn't run up at the tiny agency, which regulates lofts.....then $143,867 in nonlocal travel at 12 small mayoral agencies in fiscal 2000, including $10,054 for the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities turned up...on top of $165,985 in "nonlocal travel" billed directly to the Mayor's Office. ......an astonishing $400,000 tab in "nonlocal travel" in fiscal 2001 was billed to the Assigned Counsel Plan. Overall nonlocal-travel expenses surged from $245,896 in fiscal 2000 to $618,014 in fiscal 2001 - a 151% increase.....
American Express bills and documents obtained under the FOIA show numerous receipts from hotels and gas stations on Long Island, where Giuliani secretly began visiting Nathan's in 1999 as his marriage to Hanover was crumbling.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The married Rudy was getting sexually blitzed by his married mistress on the taxpayers’ dime.
Appears as if everytime the married mayor was satisfying his urges, he was soaking the taxpayers. That Rooty billed the taxpayers for his extramarital trysts, is appalling in and of itself----but the extraordinary amounts Rooty extorted from taxpayers is surely a subject for a criminal investigation.
"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.
Perhaps a further investigation of Mayor Rooty's billing practices will expose how he managed to spend $17 million during his short-lived Senate campaign against Hillary in 2000 (might also explain why he unceremonioulsy quit the race).
Rudy is too stupid to be President if he didn’t think this would come out in a campaign against Hillary in ‘08. His shady connections and accusations such as this one lets Hillary off the hook concerning her own shady past. He should have quit while his reputation was intact and gone off into a good retirement with Judi.
If you combine this with other the Kerik deal, Rudy is beginning to not past the smell test. We need someone squeaky clean that overcome and Hilda and her FBI files. Does that leave us with Romney?
As one pundit on Tucker’s TV show said yesterday, “Rudy is a ticking time bomb.”
Good points-——how stupid to think he could keep this secret. He’s so shady he lets Hillary look angelic.
“American’s Mayor” is a two-bit oversexed fraud
I am glad this crap is starting now. I was afraid it would all hang fire until after a Giuliani nomination. I hope it starts coming NOW thick and fast. Either it will sink him or it won’t. If it doesn’t then he is probably viable in the election. I have been afraid he would win the nomination and then this stuff would start and every issue and every broadcast of MSM anything for the duration would be at least 50% Giuliani scandal that would push the honesty and morality Republicans away from the polls next November.
“American Express bills and documents obtained under the FOIA show numerous receipts from hotels and gas stations on Long Island, where Giuliani secretly began visiting Nathan’s in 1999 as his marriage to Hanover was crumbling.’
whatever on the current political scene - the guy presumably had nary a presidential thought in his mind until late 2001- therefore these behaviors would be regarded as normal and tolerated by his successor. I would assume this is all part of info the clinton campaign has to use against him at any point since 2000.
Rooty’s irrationality is starkly demonstrated here-—very disturbed thinking-—that he could get away with billing taxpayers to get it on with his mistress.
Taxpayers wonder what other nonsense he billed them for......nonsense that could and should escalate into a criminal investigation.
If one wants to slip away to fool around with one’s mistress, it is best to leave the entourage behind.
And the timeline of roll-in-the-loft on the taxpayers dime lead right into 9/11.
"Good points-——how stupid to think he could keep this secret. He’s so shady he lets Hillary look angelic.'American’s Mayor' is a two-bit oversexed fraud"
We can all be certain that Hillary and the dems would love to run against Rudy. There are more bones in his closet just waiting to fall out. While the dirt on Hillary is treated as “old news,” we’ll hear drip, drip, drip about Rudy from the convention to the general election.
Gee, you must be loads of fun at “You Too Can Own The Brooklyn Bridge” sales meetings.
You post: “the guy presumably had nary a presidential thought in his mind until late 2001....”
Patently wrong——FYI, some of the bio data on Giuliani has him lusting after the presidency while in high school.
EVERY politician, from dog-catcher on up, has presidential aspirations.
BTW, how do you want to handle the down payment on the bridge?
No way can we allow this slimy horndog to get the nomination. I cannot fathom why any self-respecting Republican could even consider it. It’s surreal.
Let's keep that insight in the forefront.
When he should have been keeping watch on NYC AFTER the first WTC bombing, Rudy was getting sexually blitzed.
And get this----an earlier post suggested Rudy placed the city's emergency response system in the WTC (a target for the terrorists) b/c it was more convenient for him to meet his mistress there without his wife knowing.
He’s not stupid. He never had any intention of running for president until his post-9/11 fame and fortune began to cloud his judgement.
Of course not. No self-respecting Repub would consider this guy for anything-—well, maybe dog-catcher (not a reference to Rooty’s third wife——snicker).
And keep in mind, there’s no better way to expose faux Repubs-—they show their true colors by endorsing this phony character.
Rudy serves only one legit purpose in OUR party-—he separates the real Repubs from the frauds.
MINDING HIS BUSINESS; RUDY FIRM'S TIES CASTING SHADOW OVER CAMPAIGN (tainted ties. shady, murky biz)
EXCERPT By BRENDAN SCOTT, NY POST November 11, 2007
When Rudy Giuliani walked out of City Hall six years ago, he had $2 million in the bank and the moniker "America's mayor" on his résumé. Then came the book deals, the speaking tours and the partnership at a powerful Washington lobbying house. None, however, would prove more lucrative than the small consulting firm Giuliani and a dozen of his most trusted aides founded in 2002 in an angular glass tower at 5 Times Square. Most of the firm's top executives were in the mayor's "kitchen cabinet," including Bernard Kerik, his former police chief; Michael Hess, who served as the city's top lawyer; Anthony Carbonetti, chief of staff from '99-'01; Daniel Connolly, special counsel to the city's Law Department from '97-'01; Thomas Von Essen, former FDNY commissioner; and Dennison Young Jr., chief counsel during Giuliani's eight years as mayor.
Since its startup in 2002, Giuliani Partners has formed several subsidiaries, including an investment bank called Giuliani Capital Advisors - since sold - Giuliani Compliance Japan and security companies called Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety, which replaced Giuliani-Kerik and Giuliani Security & Safety Asia. By the time Giuliani declared his run for president last spring, his namesake firm had grossed an estimated $100 million. The ex-mayor himself was worth of as much as $66 million.
But on the campaign trail he has been fending off questions about the shady clients, disgraced employees and murky business decisions. Nobody has been more problematic than Kerik, who rose from a job as Giuliani's driver during his 1993 mayoral campaign to head of the city's Correction Department and finally police commissioner. At Giuliani Partners, Kerik headed an affiliated security-consulting company. Controversy erupted after Giuliani recommended Kerik to President Bush, who nominated him be Homeland Security chief in 2004. Kerik abruptly withdrew his name, blaming tax issues involving a nanny, but reports soon surfaced about stock-option windfalls, connections with people suspected of dealing with the mob and extramarital affairs.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11112007/news/nationalnews/minding_his_business_639428.htm?page=0
Just to set the record straight: I love Rudy and wish he were governor here in the People's Republic of New York, but I do not want him as President.
Bye Bye Rudy
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