Unethical: Bloomberg/Rauf Collusion

American Thinker ^ | December 24, 2010 | Pamela Geller

[neverdem]

They're emailing each other?

The New York Daily News reported Thursday that "Mayor Bloomberg's top deputies went to great lengths to help those trying to build a mosque at Ground Zero - even drafting a letter to the community board for them, newly released documents show. City Hall on Thursday released a flurry of emails between its brass and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam pushing to build a mosque near the sensitive site, and his supporters."

It's worse than we imagined.

The release of these documents, emails and various exchanges between Mayor Bloomberg's office and the radical Imam Rauf and his motley crew of Islamic supremacists shows evidence of collusion, inappropriate political support for the Ground Zero mega mosque, and favoritism given to the project.

The newly released documents show that Mayor Bloomberg's office went to extraordinary lengths for the radicals trying to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero -- even writing a letter to the Community Board for them. Is it any wonder that Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan were so confident at the hearings about whether the nineteenth-century building they're going to tear down to build the mega-mosque should be designated a landmark?

At one of those hearings last May, those in opposition to the Ground Zero mosque were in the vast majority in the audience, and were having none of the nonsense being served up by the Community Board itself. From the very beginning the board was only presenting pro-mosque speakers, from elected officials to board members - although I was allowed to speak early after writing on my card that I wanted to speak about "outreach." After I spoke, they closed the public remarks down for about an hour. After the lopsided vote in favor of the mosque, printed remarks were distributed from the Manhattan Borough President congratulating the Board for its vote.

How did he know how the Board would vote? Was the fix in from the start? The newly released emails certainly give that impression.

Rauf is an open proponent of Islamic law, Sharia, with its oppression of women, stonings, and amputations. He is a prominent member of the Perdana organization, a leading funder of the jihad flotilla launched against Israel earlier this year by the genocidal Islamic terror group, IHH.

And he's a slumlord. Despite numerous citations for fire, building, and health code violations and reports of vermin and rat and roach infestations, the Imam left his tenants to live in abject squalor and filth. He claimed he didn't have money to hire an exterminator, but he has the jiyza to build a $150 million Ground Zero triumphal mosque on hallowed ground? Worse still, Rauf snagged more than $2 million in public financing to renovate low-income apartments. He took the money, never did the renovations, and forced good people to live with vermin and dilapidation.

So why did the Mayor apparently break ethical rules for a slumlord with radical ties, whose buildings were placed in receivership in November?

Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the correspondence between Bloomberg's office and Rauf concerning the mosque months ago. The Mayor failed to release these documents back in August. It took an additional six months to get Bloomberg to comply with this request. Now we know why, and what he was hiding.

The emails between the Mayor's office and Rauf concerning the Ground Zero mosque show that Bloomberg more than once colluded with Rauf and his gang to make sure the mosque project would sail through to get all the approval from various city offices that it needed.

Why did Bloomberg help the Cordoba Initiative write its letter to the New York City Landmarks Commission, altering and making suggestions and revisions to Rauf's original letter?

Why did the city intervene on behalf of Rauf, to help him secure the permits from the building department for permission to assemble in a building that had been destroyed in the 9/11 attacks?

The dotty, irrational Mayor has shown no such favoritism towards the rebuilding of the 96-year-old St. Nicholas church at Ground Zero. Completely destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, it remains vanquished by Muslim terrorists, despite a ten-year battle by Church officials who have been frustrated again and again in their attempts to rebuild by city officials.

The revelation Bloomberg's ethics violations and collusion with the Islamic supremacists of the Ground Zero mosque project ought to put an end to the Ground Zero mosque once and for all -- as well as to Bloomberg's political career.

[Cheetahcat]

Can this traitorous clown be recalled?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m starting to get the feeling that Bloomberg is going to make a lot of money for supporting the muzzies’ Victory Trophy Mosque at Ground Zero.

[Mr. Mojo]

Why did Bloomberg help the Cordoba Initiative write its letter to the New York City Landmarks Commission, altering and making suggestions and revisions to Rauf's original letter? Why did the city intervene on behalf of Rauf, to help him secure the permits from the building department for permission to assemble in a building that had been destroyed in the 9/11 attacks?

Because the Saudis are stuffing the criminal Bloomberg's (already quite fat) overseas bank accts.

[Sun]

“I’m starting to get the feeling that Bloomberg is going to make a lot of money for supporting the muzzies’ Victory Trophy Mosque at Ground Zero.”

Yes, this seems to be beyond the naivete of being a liberal. It does seem as if Bloomberg will make more money, as well. Bloomberg seems to want it way too much.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Bloomberg seems to want it way too much.

That's the way I see it too! Something BIG is up if he can get his mosque built. I just don't think "unity, tolerance and understanding" is what's driving him.

[neverdem]

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[lonestar]

Didn't the corrupt mayor invest a bunch of money in Dubai? (sp?)

Isn't he guilty of malfeasance? He should move to Chicago!

[ldish]

follow the money and the deals!

[Cheetahcat]

“follow the money and the deals!”

You are right!

[Lancey Howard]

“Unethical”??

This is 2010, almost 2011. We have community organizer Ubanga as President and Commander-in-Chief, and a hopelessly corrupt Attorney General, Eric Holder. Despite the glimmer of hope offered by the last election, America remains nothing more than a land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them. It is not an America worth defending anymore.

Seriously - - is anybody really going to do anything about yet another corrupt scumbag? The people elected Bloomberg with their eyes wide open and they are getting exactly what they expect.

“Unethical”? LMAO!

[BusterBear]

With Bloomberg, it’s always the money. Aaron Klein did a report on WABC radio a while ago, on the investments Bloomberg LLC is making in the Middle East, building new headquarters and offices, cultivating emirs and head honchos, and creating financial services that conform to Sharia law, but the rest of the media won’t touch this issue with a ten-foot pole.

Bloomberg’s conflicts of interest are ripe for investigation, but who will investigate?

[submarinerswife]

save for later

[Postman]

Lancy,

Miss Scarlett simply loves your take on this.

[Postman]

Sorry..... Lancey

[SunkenCiv]

Bloomberg's top deputies went to great lengths to help those trying to build a mosque at Ground Zero -- even drafting a letter to the community board for them, newly released documents show. City Hall on Thursday released a flurry of emails between its brass and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam pushing to build a mosque near the sensitive site, and his supporters.

Thanks neverdem.

[drubyfive]

Why would the mayor of New York move to Chicago?

[sheik yerbouty]

“Mayor Kapo”

[sheik yerbouty]

Could he being blackmailed or is he just a useful infidel?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Bloomberg is an anti-Semitic Jew....and a traitor. He helps a man who wants to harm and kill Jews, and shows utter disrespect for those terrorized on 9/11

Bloomberg should be tried for treason, and Trading with the Enemy.

Again, Pam Geller steps up and exposes Islamic hatred, and those Dhimmi who support them