Rudy Put $400,000 In Advance Funds On Credit Card For Travel Expenses (was his mistress shopping?)

TALKING POINTS MEMO ^ | November 30, 2007 | Paul Kiel and Greg Sargent

[Liz]

Smaller items than a pannini press have taken down the powerful.

[FreeInWV]

At the very least, he has violated procurement laws. Purchases over a certain dollar amount must by law go through the procurement process and be put out to bid. Subverting this process is highly illegal.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“At the very least, he has violated procurement laws. Purchases over a certain dollar amount must by law go through the procurement process and be put out to bid. Subverting this process is highly illegal”

How serious a crime is this?

[investigateworld]

Thanks for the post.

Wait till (or IF) he were to be nominated. Then we'll see a flood that would impress Noah and his 'two of every kind'.

[calcowgirl]

...the Giuliani administration had kept the budget for the mayor’s office artificially low by paying more than $5 million in salaries through other city agencies

And that is most probably $5 million per year.

[primatreat]

I tried to file a RICO case with him against a corrupt V.A. official. He kissed me off because the V.A. creep was small fish.
The Guy forced me to kick back 5% of his departments purchases to him.

Rudy Is a looser and follows this erect genitalia around his workplace.

[trisham]

Giuliani's got a lot of questions to answer.

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That he does. Fortunately for us, this story has broken before the primaries.

[sbMKE]

This whole “scandal” would have net Guiliani an $800 shopping spree at Crate and Barrel or 6 or 7 dvd players — that is, if he is proven to have pilfered the points from the city.

[DemEater]

“At the very least, he has violated procurement laws.”

Forget about procurement laws. He also had the NYPD driving his mistress and her family around NY. The comptroller of the state had to resign because he sometime uses official cars to transport his sick WIFE with cancer around. Also had to plead guilty to a crime if I remember.

[Fred]

This whole ordeal makes NYC government officials look like a bunch of Hucksters..Just SOP for ole NYC.

[cgbg]

a real nice Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner

Freepers are all over Rudy the way my chow chow is with our Roomba.

He stalks the little robot, sniffs it, barks at it, bumps it with his nose, and then stalks around it like a cat.

The chow chow hasn't managed to damage the Roomba yet, but tomorrow is a new day.

:-)

[Liz]

S-e-n-s-a-t-i-o-n-a-l.

Hoping AND praying it’s even LESS than $800 that trips up the sucker.

[Churchillspirit]

Happy tenth anniversary!

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you.

[Liz]

...... the Giuliani administration kept the budget for the mayor’s office artificially low by paying more than $5 million in salaries PER YEAR through other city agencies.......

A forensic accounting of Kerik and Giuliani's other city appointees' budgets might find similar frauds.

[SUSSA]

The comptroller of the state had to resign because he sometime uses official cars to transport his sick WIFE with cancer around. Also had to plead guilty to a crime if I remember.

You're right. New York State Comptroller, Alan Hevesi, didn't just have to resign, he was prosecuted and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of defrauding the government, which carries a maximum penalty of 1 1/3 to four years in prison, for bilking the government by using state employees as drivers and personal assistants for his sick wife.

There's no reason Rudy shouldn't be prosecuted for his crimes.

[Liz]

Forget the innuendo and snide insinuations-----Rooty could
easily explain this by simply admitting to pre-loading
his Amex for a $50,000 night at a NYC strip
club. Hey, lap dances COST.

"Hey, Rooty, wanna lap dance? Gimme your AmEx."

[Liz]

NY State Comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty to a felony charge of defrauding the government by using state employees as drivers and personal assistants for his sick wife. There's no reason Rudy shouldn't be prosecuted for his crimes.

THIS JUST IN:

JUDI NATHAN FORCED THE NYPD TO CHAUFFEUR HER FRIENDS AROUND---- EVEN WHEN SHE WAS NOT IN THE CAR

(CBS) .........Giuliani is facing questions about security (expenditures). A source involved with the mayor’s operations at the time of the expenditures tells CBS 2 HD that his mistress Judy Nathan took flagrant advantage of the police car and driver Ridy assigned to her.

The source says Nathan forced police to chauffeur her friends and family around the city — even when she wasn’t in the car.

That set off alarms with ethics watchdogs. “The rules are clear, you can’t use city resources for private reasons,” said Gene Russianoff of the NY Public Interest Research Group. “And if you’re using a city car, a police driven car to chauffeur around relatives, unless they’re explicitly protected and their deemed to be the subject of potential security threats, it’s just wrong.”

[Fred]

Lenny Brisco... Law and Order...doink...doink



Do you think this NYC cop would walk Nathan's dog??

[Liz]

Giuliani caused losses to the City by pre-paying $400,000 to AmEx; this was government money not banked, not gathering interest, not invested, not earning income, while it sat in AmEx's accounts to use at Rudy's convenience.

5% simple interest on $400,000 over a year would have earned $2000. Course, maybe AmEx threw in a free steak knife set for the $400K (/sarc).

The obscure city agencies charged with repaying Rooty's expenditures lost the use of those funds during the time between reimbursements.....if, in fact, they were ever reimbursed.

The agencies might have had day-to-day budgeting and operational problems---maybe purchasing delays or cancellations.

Most of these agencies are not lavishly funded as they try to meet the needs of the less fortunate. Legal aid might have been denied, or handicapped programs curtailed, so Rudy could have his mistress satisfy his urges.

Needy citizens were deprived of the full measure of services the City Council intended and the taxpaying public had every right to expect.