nyc.general

On 2007-11-28 19:47:05 -0500, 789@ said:

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> ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign on
> Wednesday dismissed a report that New York City taxpayers footed the
> bill for expenses incurred in a Long Island resort as the then-mayor
> began an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan.
> "These were all legitimate expenses incurred in protecting the mayor,
> and his police detail covered him wherever he went, 24/7," Tony
> Carbonetti, Giuliani's chief political adviser, said in an interview.
> "You just do what you do and the police go with you. That's just a
> fact of life when you're the mayor of New York."
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> Aides, however, offered no explanation for why the tens of thousands
> of dollars in costs, which they say were routine expenses for
> protection for the mayor, were billed to obscure city agencies.
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> Giuliani's affair with Nathan, while he was married to second wife
> Donna Hanover, has become common knowledge.
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> But the suggestion, true or not, that he was hiding expenses for
> liaisons with Nathan in little-known city accounts, could open him up
> to criticism, remind voters of his three marriages and infidelity and
> tarnish his good-guy image from the aftermath of the September 11. The
> report surfaced just five weeks before voting begins.
>
> The online publication, The Politico, obtained documents under New
> York's Freedom of Information Law that it says shows the expenses
> incurred while Giuliani visited the Hamptons had nothing to with the
> functions of little-known city offices that were responsible for
> regulating loft apartments, helping the disabled and providing lawyers
> for indigent defendants.
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> Weeks after Giuliani left office, The Politico reported, the city
> comptroller criticized the practice of transferring the travel
> expenses of Giulaini's security detail to the accounts of obscure
> offices. In a January 2002 letter to current Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
> City Comptroller William Thompson described $34,000 in mayoral
> expenses from fiscal year 2000, which covers parts of 1999 and 2000,
> to the Loft Board, as part of a preliminary investigation by auditors.
>
> "They were unable to verify that these expenses were for legitimate or
> necessary purposes," Thompson wrote in the letter that The Politico
> obtained. He said the mayor's office refused to explain the accounting
> to city auditors, citing only "security."
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> The Politico said American Express bills and travel documents it
> obtained detail hotel, gas and other travel expenses for Giuliani's
> New York Police Department security detail during 11 trips over three
> summers of visits to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan
> had a condominium.

The Morality Mayor! Ghoulee is a fucking hypocrite....just like his supporters.

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