..........when Giuliani's campaign chest approached the maximum he could spend for re-election in 1997, $9.7 million, Kislin was one of several top backers of the mayor who supported the Liberal Party, which had endorsed the mayor and helped finance his campaign, according to The Village Voice. One of Kislin's companies gave $30,000 to the Liberals. Kislin also kicked in $7,700 to Jules Polenetsky, who was running with Giuliani for the city's office of public advocate and could share political advertisement costs with the mayor. Giuliani's campaign manager had asked the mayor's major contributors to help finance Polenetsky's campaign.
In 1996, Kislin hosted a fund-raiser for Giuliani at the Lido Restaurant in Brooklyn. And last May 25, 1995 Kislin also was a co-chair for a Giuliani fund-raiser at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. The bash raised $2.1 million for his probable run for the Senate next year. I did a lot of fund raising for Giuliani," Kislin acknowledged. "He's a good man, doing a good job for the city of New York." Bruce Teitelbaum, the spokesman for Giuliani's Senate campaign exploratory committee, refused through an aide to comment on Semyon Kislin's support of Giuliani. Teitelbaum refused to return calls himself.
The Giuliani campaign did return a $2,000 check received at the Sheraton Hotel fund-raiser from Philip Castellano, son of the late racketeer Paul Castellano, even though the younger Castellano has never been accused of a crime.
Arik Kislin, Semyon's nephew, contributed $1,000 to Mayor Giuliani in 1995.
and...What’s the point?
this is freerepublic, not the History Channel
Still trying to become Mrs Giuliani #4 I see...
Judging from the responses I think you were only supposed to look for blue alligators and ignore the red ones when you drained the swamp.
Only problem is that red alligators will contnue to breed and in a few years we can feign surprise and say “Hey where did all these red alligators come from?”
You don’t clean up a mess by screaming that someone else is dirtier.
Help me out here — is there a point to be made about the current economic crisis and the stock market in relation to these Russian campaign contributions from a decade ago? Or, is there something about these people contributing to a current candidate or something? I’m just trying to figure out what relevance this has today, right now. You did put it in the sidebar after all. :-)
It was impossible to do any significant amounts of business in Russia without dealing with Russian mobsters because they had their hands in everything.
But Rudy can beat Hillary!