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Giuliani Partners, Rudy's consulting firm, has laid off staffers as the business is reshaped after his failed presidential campaign........layoffs involved at least five administrative staffers.

Rudy catches a buss from wife Judi in Florida Tuesday night. She brought enough political baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton trunk. Indeed, part of Rudy Giuliani's presidential flameout can be traced back to his Judi - the woman he fell for in a cigar bar in 1999 while he was the married mayor with a wife and two young children at home. "She was a major part of the reason for Giuliani's collapse," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Rudy wanted to head up the 'family values' party, and Judi didn't fit...

A Play in One Act* "Just promise me one thing John, you will always take my calls?" "Are you kidding? Anytime Rudy!" "And Tony Carbonetti's too?" "Err, ok.." "And can Judi please have something, a beautification commission maybe?" "Uh, I did sort of tell Cindy she could have that..." "Well, forget beautification. Judi would be great for any kind of health thing. You know she's a nurth! You could put her on your health insurance commission, not as chairman obviously, but vice chair I think would be perfect." "Rudy, here's my hand on it. I don't know what the...

Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips By: Ben Smith November 28, 2007 02:55 PM EST As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding...

The New York Times exonerates Rudy Giuliani from charges that he moved travel expenses around through subsidiary agencies in order to hide his affair with his now-wife, Judith. People looking for that exoneration on their feedreaders will find themselves frustrated. Not only did the Times bury the story on one of its blogs, it put it in a graphic format that doesn't allow for copy-and-paste. In fact, it isn't even shown as an entry on the blog itself: All eight of Mr. Giuliani's trips to the Hamptons in 1999 and 2000, including the period when his relationship was a secret,...

--SNIP--Giuliani's messy personal life is a big turnoff to women voters....causing the public humiliation of his second wife, tax-paid bodyguards for his girlfriend and a frosty relationship with his kids: It all makes wives and moms around the country skeptical of putting him in the White House. "If he can't control his personal life, I just don't see how he can control the country," said a Lucas, Kan housewife. Fifty % of women overall - and 48% of GOP women - said that Giuliani dumping second wife Donna Hanover at a 2000 press conference would make them less likely to...

... Giuliani's concern for Nathan's security should not come as a surprise to anyone. In his best-selling 2002 memoir "Leadership," Giuliani recounts that one of his main concerns on Sept. 11, 2001 was that the terrorists who attacked the Twin Towers and Pentagon might also be coming after Nathan. He describes his priorities after he and his top advisers finally managed to find a site, a firehouse, to serve as a new command center after fleeing the one at the World Trade Center. He and his team called city hospitals to make sure they were ready for the injured. Then...

WASHINGTON -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended the expenses incurred by his security detail as he was beginning an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan, saying police made the decision after she received threats. Giuliani in recent weeks has faced a barrage of questions about New York police security costs for his trysts with Nathan and about his business clients, which have included the Persian Gulf country of Qatar. Although a U.S. ally, Qatar is accused of sheltering suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Smiling broadly and laughing at some of the tougher questions...

WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani doggedly insisted Sunday that threats against then-girlfriend Judith Nathan prompted the NYPD to launch her taxpayer-funded chauffeur services. "These were all based upon threat assessments made by the New York City Police Department ... of what was necessary to protect her life, my life, other people's lives," Giuliani told NBC’s Tim Russert. "Every single thing done here was done based upon the assessment of someone else that this was necessary." His explanation of Nathan's car service doesn't square with Friday’s Daily News exclusive report, citing multiple witnesses and a law enforcement source, that she was being...

It's not easy keeping track of Rudy Giuliani's shag-related expenditures of taxpayer money while mayor of New York. For one thing, it's impossible to get a total of the amount spent guarding the mayor's then-girlfriend. And the available records are spotty at best. But we gave it the ol' TPM try. So here, without further ado, is our timeline. 5/99 -- Judith Nathan and Giuliani meet at Club Macanudo, a cigar bar on the Upper East Side. 7/3/99 -- NYPD Officers charge the city for gas to "accompany the mayor to Southampton." 7/31/99 -- Four officers accompanying Giuliani stay at...

Giuliani tried to ride out new questions over taxpayer-funded chauffeur police services witnesses said were provided to Judith Nathan well before the married mayor revealed his extramarital involvement in 2000..... asked about Nathan's city-funded wheels, Giuliani non-answered "Thank you," and "Have a good night." Nathan's police escorts were thought to have begun in December 2000, after Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said she was threatened and needed around-the-clock protection. (Giuliani hid security detail and travel expenses for Nathan in obscure city agencies.) "If Nathan was provided police protection prior to their being a security-threat assessment, it probably was an illegal use...

Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed - even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News. "It went on for months before the affair was public," said Lee Degenstein, 52, a retired Smith Barney vice president who formerly lived at 200 E. 94th St., Nathan's old building. "It was going on longer than anybody thought," added Degenstein, who, along with others in the neighborhood, said they often saw Nathan hopping into unmarked NYPD cars in early 2000, before the affair was revealed that May.

Rudy Giuliani'S breakup with Donna Hanover cost tax payers a lot more than his extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, according to city documents. The documents show that the distraught Hanover repeatedly fled Gracie Mansion to seek refuge with her parents in California as her high-profile marriage was crumbling. At all times, she was accompanied by an NYPD security detail that ran up at least $110,000 in credit-card charges for airfare, lodging, car rentals and gasoline. "They're stuck on you," said one source of the protective detail. "They go where you go." In June 2000 - a month after Giuliani shocked...

Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. "She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani. New York papers reported in 2000 that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani's third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time. The former city officials said Giuliani...

REPORTS: PUBLISHER JUDITH REGAN TO FILE $100 MILLION SUIT AGANIST MURDOCH EMPIRE IN NY COURT; WILL BE REPPED BY SUPERLAWYER BERT FIELDS... DEVELOPING... Just a header on Drudge right now.. Regan grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971.[1] She then attended Vassar College, receiving her A.B. degree in 1975. Then in 1978, while working as a secretary at Harvard, Regan answered a newspaper ad for a reporter for The National Enquirer and got the job. In the early 1980s, Regan relocated to New York City. After the 911 attacks in 2001, Regan published...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A day after urging people to "leave my family alone," Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Friday said he'll talk about his family _ on his terms. "Sure I will," Giuliani told reporters outside a cafe where he visited with voters. "But I'll talk about it appropriately, and in a way to preserve as much as I can the privacy of my family and my children, which I think any decent person would." Giuliani asked again _ as he did Thursday _ that people judge him on his record as New York City mayor and a federal...

(Political Animal) THE BUNKER....When Rudy Giuliani finally agreed to build an emergency-command center in New York City back in 1996, the city's emergency management director recommended a site in Brooklyn: it was a safe location, had a low profile, and could be built quickly. Giuliani refused. He wanted a location he could walk to, so the command bunker ended up in the World Trade Center instead, where it was destroyed on 9/11. But there's more. Mark Kleiman points out this paragraph from Wayne Barrett's takedown of Giuliani in the Village Voice:Giuliani's office [in the bunker] had a humidor for cigars and...

JUDITH GIULIANI likes to have an empty seat next to her on the campaign plane for “Baby Louis”—her Louis Vuitton handbag. Jeri Thompson is a “trophy wife” with a taste for low-cut dresses and gold-lamé wedge sandals. Ann Romney has five children and ten grandchildren. Elizabeth Kucinich sports a tongue-stud. These are just a small sample of titbits about would-be first ladies culled from the press. There is nothing new in Americans taking an interest in the spouses of potential presidents, or in the media being cruel to them. How better to find out about a person's true nature...

"That's no first lady, that's my wife!" -- Badabump. -- It's open season apparently on the wives and children of GOP presidential candidates. In a display of judgment worthy of People magazine, Washington Post editors decided the fact that Mrs. Fred Thompson once had a boyfriend when she was single is big news. (Gee, did Michelle Obama? Would Elizabeth Edwards kiss on a first date?) Meanwhile, The New York Times ran a story on the Giulianis' response to Vanity Fair's nasty little gossipy profile of Judith Giuliani, Giuliani's Princess Bride." OK, so the tiara was a bit much. And true,...

It has not been an easy few months for Judith Giuliani. Her rollout to the public received rocky reviews from the political class, Republicans included. A series of negative articles about her shopping habits, marital past and supposedly testy relations with campaign staff followed. Her appearances alongside her husband, Rudolph W. Giuliani, grew suddenly scarce — and some analysts suggested that she keep it that way. So it was perhaps no surprise that at a recent lunch in downtown Manhattan, Mrs. Giuliani offered this self-assessment: “When it comes to politics, I’m new to this.” Over the course of a two-hour...

JUDITH Giuliani is an opportunistic, puppy-killing homewrecker who has a full-time hairstylist and needs an extra seat on planes for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag - at least according to a hatchet job on the former mayor's wife in the September issue of Vanity Fair.

The topic for this year's dog days seems to be: Just how awful is the future White House spouse? Vanity Fair has set a new standard for catnip with Judy Bachrach's portrait of aspiring first lady Judith Giuliani. Forget asking who would want to be president. Who in her right mind would ever want to be the first lady? Or the first gentleman, as the case, indeed, may be. Retract that question. Bill Clinton can't wait for his Vanity Fair cover -- he'll be wearing an apron and baking cookies, no doubt. But there isn't much left to learn about...

......there have long been whispers that Giuliani's third marriage, not his two divorces, could be his biggest personal problem. Vanity Fair put its long-awaited profile of Judith (don't call her Judi!) Giuliani on the Web, and the whispers are about to get a lot louder. --SNIP-- Giuliani's wife is a political liability, and that isn't good........Giuliani has a pattern of terrible judgment, from promoting the integrity-challenged Bernie Kerik from his driver to police commissioner to (almost) Homeland Security chief to continuing to employ his friend, Monsignor Alan Placa, despite credible accusations he not only helped cover up child abuse in...

Judith Giuliani always dreamed big, which got her out of small-town Pennsylvania, through two marriages, and into the arms of Rudy Giuliani. But, as her husband runs for president, people are asking, "Who does she think she is?" It was the first anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero, an occasion when the names of the dead were read aloud. The first reader was to be Rudy Giuliani, New York's mayor at the time of the disaster, whose actions during those terrible days would prove a political boon. An army of policemen flanked him?an excessive number, spectators thought, since, due to...

.....Giuliani plans on skipping the YouTube presidential debate Sept. 17 because of "scheduling conflicts" ..... "That's prime fund-raising time".....campaign officials said.

........Judith Giuliani's been gun-shy since March, when her rambling speech at her husband's first major fund-raiser garnered unflattering reviews........

She does more than smile for him - Rudy Giuliani paid Judith Nathan $125,000 a year for speechwriting. Being Mrs. Rudy Giuliani can't be easy, but at least it pays well - about $10,000 a month. A day after the former mayor disclosed in federal filings that he considers his third wife, Judith, a salaried employee, sources said he has paid her about $125,000 a year for speechwriting help - since before they were married. The tidy sums, which the couple have always reported as income on their joint tax returns, was for speech-writing help and the many days...

NEW YORK, New York (1010 WINS) -- Rudy Giuliani ripped into the head of the Democratic Party yesterday for getting personal by suggesting Giuliani's family life poses a "serious problem." The shot earlier this week by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean marks the first time Dems have openly targeted Giuliani's messy past. During a CNN interview, Dean said the GOP presidential front-runner "has a lot of character issues that he has to answer for." "We've begun to reach out to evangelical Christians, and that's a real problem for him," Dean told CNN. "His personal life is a serious problem...

JUDI GIULIANI Germ-warfare adviser. Rudy Giuliani consulted his wife Judith on bioterrorism after 9/11, and considered her "an expert we rely on" at his consulting firm.....the ex-mayor spoke about Judy's role in a 2003 interview, with his bride at his side: "She gives us a lot of advice and a lot of help in areas where she's got a lot of expertise - biological and chemical," the ex-mayor said in a taping never aired in the US. "And since we do security work, that's an area of great concern - you know, another anthrax attack, a smallpox attack, chemical...

Look, under normal circumstances, I can think of a lot more enjoyable things to do than discuss the love life of New York City mayors. Like, oh, scrub the fuzz under my stovetop, maybe? But Mayor Rudy Giuliani's aggressive moral defense of his own odd public conduct ought not pass totally unnoticed. The New York Post broke the story that taxpayers are footing the bill for police protection of the mayor's "very good friend" Judith Nathan. Ms. Nathan became concerned when a man identified her on the street ("You're the mayor's girlfriend," according to the Post) and made a call...

When Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani told Barbara Walters on the show “20/20” on March 29 that he would be open to his wife, Judith, attending cabinet meetings, it was an expression of how he viewed his relationship with her. “If she wanted to sit in on cabinet meetings,” stated Giuliani, “that would be something I would be very, very comfortable with.” To many Americans, however, the presence of the first lady – an unelected, unappointed official – sitting in on gatherings of the most powerful people in the country, all of whom had been elected or appointed by the...

Her ex-boyfriend before Rudy says she'd be a natural as our First Lady Rudy and Judith Giuliani came dressed for success at Metropolitan Opera's opening night last September. Theirs was a relationship that spanned five special years. They shared dinners, theater and a love of New York. And in his first in-depth interview, Judith Giuliani's ex-boyfriend tells how he believes passionately that she will be a terrific asset to her husband Rudy's presidential campaign - and a wonderful First Lady. "Her heart is in all the right places in terms of doing good. She is well-trained for this kind of...

Rudolph W. Giuliani sprinted through october as if he were running for national office. He was, of course, campaigning for other Republican candidates--popping up, over a period of ten days, in eight cities. Wherever he went, Giuliani was the main attraction. The crowds didn't want to hear much about election 2006; they wanted to know if Rudy was planning to run for president in 2008. "I'll make the decision sometime next year," he announced in New Hampshire. Is the outcome in doubt? Giuliani is the closest thing in America to a mythic hero. His reputation was forged in the refiner's...

Rudy Giuliani's fundraising may not be presidential yet, but his campaign's seat-of-the-pants media manipulation—another requirement for contenders—is looking pretty good. The result: Giuliani grabbed the front pages of two New York City tabloids on the same day by giving one paper's scoop to the other. On March 23, both the Post and Daily News splashed on their front pages a revelation about Rudy's wife No. 2, the former Judi Nathan. Her revelation? Rudy is not her husband No. 2 but is really her third. Such news would likely hurt Giuliani only among religious conservatives, and they don't like his gay-people-accepting,...

Giuliani stung by revelations about his wife’s previous marriages and business background THE frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudy Giuliani, has warned critics to lay off his wife Judith after a series of revelations about her previous marriages and work for a “puppy-killing” medical supplies company. “There’s plenty to attack me about. Please do it,” the former New York mayor said last week. “But maybe, you know, show a little decency.” He went on to protest that Judith Giuliani, his third wife, was “a civilian, to use the old mafia distinction”. This weekend Howard Koeppel, a gay friend who...

Mitt Romney is riding high this week after his victory in "the first primary," which consists of raising cold, hard cash to compete: more than $20 million in the first quarter, $5 million more than his closest contender, Rudy "Lay off my wife!" Giuliani. John McCain came in a lackluster third with $12.5 million. Romney's campaign benefited from two distinct donor networks, according to media accounts: Wall Street and Mormons. GOP front-runner Rudy, struggling with one of those weird media freak shows erupting around his wife, Judith (her alleged participation in future Cabinet meetings and former puppy killings), must be...

RE: "Judi's Job with Pup-Killer Firm," April 2. *** The Giuliani campaign admits that Judi was in the operating room "hundreds of times".....not part of a surgical team aiming to save a life; she was part of an inappropriate commercial effort. Washington, DC *** To witness or participate in the pain and suffering of a living being tells so much of a person's lack of character, greed and selfishness. The thought of Giuliani as first lady sickens me. Ailbert, Ariz. *** Rudy Giuliani has lost my vote. Anyone who can condone animal abuse is a loser.....Milford, Del. *** ......Judi must...

Rudolph Giuliani is supposed to run for President as the tough guy coming over the hill, but looks more and more like every overhandled politician out there. It officially started last week with that silly performance he and his wife, Judith, gave for Barbara Walters, the kind usually reserved for candidates in trouble, not as far ahead in the polls as Giuliani currently is. But apparently he can't have the American people thinking he was going around with just anybody while still married to wife No. 2, Donna Hanover. Hanover, as you probably recall, found out their marriage was over...

Striking Similarities of Clinton, Giuliani BY RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun April 3, 2007 WASHINGTON — The Democratic and Republican front-runners for president who will campaign in Iowa today are a New York politician with a history of marital trouble who favors abortion rights and gay rights, opposes immediate and total withdrawal from Iraq, favors intervening in the crisis in Darfur, uses September 11 as a constant touchstone, and has a stump speech calling for America to pursue energy independence the same way it reacted to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 50 years ago — and a...

The Giuliani '08 juggernaut just ran head-on into Podhoretz's First and Last Law of Politics, namely: No politician seeking the nation's highest office can do as much damage to another as he can do to himself. --SNIP-- The question before us today is whether Rudy Giuliani committed a blunder of comparable proportions by consenting to a Barbara Walters request for a joint interview with him and his wife Judi - during the course of which he said, embarrassingly, that he would welcome her presence at Cabinet meetings and listen to her closely on issues relating to health care. Until that...

April 2, 2007 -- Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned. "It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s......

Hubby No. 1 has fond memories of 'terrific' gal Jeffrey Ross, in Tampa yesterday, told News that ex-wife Judith Giuliani would be a "terrific First Lady" TAMPA - Judith Giuliani's secret first husband emerged from the shadows yesterday to tell the Daily News his ex would make a "terrific First Lady." In his first public statements since the Daily News revealed that Rudy Giuliani's wife was on her third marriage, husband No. 1, Jeffrey Ross, had only good things to say about the former Judith Ross. In what must have triggered a huge sigh of relief at Giuliani's campaign headquarters,...

(CBS) NEW YORK Several candidates for president are on a fast pace for fundraising. Democrat Hillary Clinton has set a record and Republican Rudy Giuliani isn't far behind. But it's what Giuliani said Monday that will likely steal the headlines. The former New York City mayor is fending off increased media scrutiny of his third wife -- the former Judith Nathan. Rudy is now asking the media to back off. "Attack me all you want," Giuliani said. "There's plenty to attack me about. Please do it. But maybe, you know, show a little decency." That's a tough sell for a...

Elizabeth Edwards is taking a swipe at Rudy Giuliani by insisting she has no interest in attending Cabinet meetings....Edwards says the first lady has a "great big megaphone, and you get to talk about things you care about, and I hope I'd be busy doing that and mothering my adorable children........" Giuliani touched off an uproar last week when he told ABC that he saw no reason to ban his wife, Judith Giuliani, who once worked as a nurse, from attending Cabinet meetings........

Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed......."It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by US Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.........In Sunday's NY Post, Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign spokesman said of Judi Giuliani's work with US Surgical, "She was in the operating room hundreds of times, using her nursing skills and training doctors in the stapling technique." Asked about the procedure being performed on dogs, McKeon said, "I've...

AFTER SECRET GROOM, 2 DIVORCES, RUDY WIFE SETS SIGHTS ON WHITE HOUSE IN 'HIDING': Jeffrey Ross, the first husband of Judith Giuliani, sneers at our fotog in a Tampa, Fla., parking lot. Judith Giuliani's "hidden husband" tried to go incognito as The Post caught up with him outside his girlfriend's Tampa home, refusing even to acknowledge his name....multiple sources, including former neighbors and a law-enforcement officer, confirmed his identity. Ross, 56, a bushy-mustached car lover, wore his hat backward and dark sunglasses when spotted leaving the Tampa home of his girlfriend in a convertible Mercedes with the license plate "N0...

WASHINGTON -- It started out as an attempt to put the complicated Rudy-loves-Judi story in the best light. Instead it conjured up visions of a 2-for-1 presidency -- a la Hillary Rodham Clinton's failed health care plan -- and sent Rudolph Giuliani backpedaling. Giuliani said in an interview airing Friday night that he would welcome his wife Judith's attendance at policy meetings on topics she cared about, even Cabinet meetings. She could attend "if she wanted to. If they were relevant to something she was interested in. I mean, that would be something that I'd be very, very comfortable with,"...

Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani told ABC News's Barbara Walters that he would welcome his wife, Judith, at White House Cabinet meetings and other policy discussions if he were elected president next year. "If she wanted to," Giuliani said in the "20/20" interview to be broadcast tonight. "If they were relevant to something that she was interested in. I mean that would be something that I'd be very, very comfortable with." Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani with wife Judith, who is a registered nurse. (By Mario Tama -- Getty Images) Candidate Bio Rudy Giuliani Who's Blogging?...

Rudolph Giuliani's wife, Judith, will "continue to play an important role" in his presidential campaign, his spokesman said Friday, despite grumbling from within the ex-mayor's circle that her involvement is creating tensions in the organization. The statement of solidarity came from campaign spokesman Michael McKeon one day after Giuliani's third spouse confirmed publicly that she has been divorced twice, not once, as widely reported when they married. She was married to a man named Jeffrey Ross, now of Florida, from 1974 to 1979. "She's going to continue to play an important role in the campaign, traveling with her husband, introducing...

WASHINGTON - Rudolph Giuliani's own campaign once called it the "weirdness factor." In 1993, aides fretted that voters would look askance at him for his 14-year marriage to his second cousin, later annulled. Then last week, the latest Mrs. Giuliani injected a twist into his White House campaign, with revelations of a "secret" third husband.