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Gaglianis Affair Rendezvous's Paid For by Taxpayers?

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Looks like another one with true Presidential rip off the taxpayer qualifications :wink: :lol: :lol:

Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips

By: Ben Smith
Nov 28, 2007 02:47 PM EST
Updated: November 28, 2007 09:43 PM EST



Giuliani and Nathan were seeing each other in 2001, the period when the bills were incurred.
Photo: AP


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 disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”

The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail.

Giuliani’s relationship with Nathan is old news now, and Giuliani regularly asks voters on the campaign trail to forgive his "mistakes."

It’s also impossible to know whether the purpose of all the Hamptons trips was to see Nathan. A Giuliani spokeswoman declined to discuss any aspect of this story, which was explained in detail to her earlier this week.

Asked about this article after it was published on Wednesday, Giuliani said: "It's not true."

He said he had 24-hour security during his eight years as mayor because of "threats," adding: " I had nothing to do with the handling of their records, and they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly appropriately."

The practice of transferring the travel expenses of Giuliani's security detail to the accounts of obscure mayoral offices has never been brought to light, despite behind-the-scenes criticism from the city comptroller weeks after Giuliani left office.

The expenses first surfaced as Giuliani's two terms as mayor of New York drew to a close in 2001, when a city auditor stumbled across something unusual: $34,000 worth of travel expenses buried in the accounts of the New York City Loft Board.

When the city's fiscal monitor asked for an explanation, Giuliani's aides refused, citing "security," said Jeff Simmons, a spokesman for the city comptroller.

But American Express bills and travel documents obtained by Politico suggest another reason City Hall may have considered the documents sensitive: They detail three summers of visits to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan had an apartment.

Auditors "were unable to verify that these expenses were for legitimate or necessary purposes," City Comptroller William Thompson wrote of the expenses from fiscal year 2000, which covers parts of 1999 and 2000.

Full story
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7073.html
 
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Looks like old Rudi's got it figured out how to get the taxpayer to pay for him having a guard on the bedroom door while he was shacked up with his girlfriend-- and then hide the costs in "obscure" accounts...I wonder if his indicted Police Commissioner buddy "Bernie" could have helped him a little on this :???:

Yep-- this boys definitely shown he has "Presidential qualifications"
:wink: :lol: :lol: :( :( :cry: :cry: :mad: :mad:

Maybe Bill will be recommending Hillary pick Rudi as V.P.-- They can compare notes on cheating and really get the White House hopping!!!

Breaking News from Newsmax.com

Giuliani Camp Dismisses Report

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."

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.

Giuliani's affair with Nathan, while he was married to second wife Donna Hanover, has become common knowledge.

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.

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."

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.
 
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It gets worse for Rudy.

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 expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.

The former officials told ABCNews.com the extra costs involved overtime and per diem costs for officers traveling with Giuliani to secret weekend rendezvous with Nathan in the fashionable Hamptons resort area on Long Island.

When the New York City comptroller began to question the accounting, Mayor Giuliani's office declined to provide details to city security, officials told ABCNews.com today.

"The Comptroller's Office made repeated requests for the information in 2001 and 2002 but was informed that due to security concerns the information could not be provided," a spokesperson for the comptroller's office said.

Appearing in public for the first time today, Giuliani told ABC News the accusations he assigned a police security detail to his mistress and helped to hide the expenses in the mammoth New York City budget "a pre-debate hit job."

"I'm sorry, but I still don't understand why they filed these expenses the way they did," he said.

Former officials close to Giuliani say he had "zero" to do with how the police security expenses for Judith Nathan, who he since married, were accounted in the city budget.

The Giuliani campaign said it would also provide a former deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, to respond to the allegations later today.

Giuliani is expected to appear on CNBC at 6 p.m. today to answer questions about the accounting procedures.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-mistr.html
 
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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.

If this can be proven-- this is a crime in most states....
 
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There's more coming out

Rudy Giuliani's secret relationship with Judith Nathan forced taxpayers to pick up the hotel tab for a mayoral aide assigned to work one summer weekend in Southampton, according to city documents.

Records show that Manny Papir, a longtime advance man for Giuliani, billed the city $331.16 for a Friday-night stay at the Southampton Inn on Aug. 20, 1999.

At the time, Giuliani was visiting Nathan at her condo in the Long Island village. She would later become his third wife.

"If you're a mayoral aide and you go out of town with the mayor, you've got to stay somewhere," explained one of Giuliani's current aides.

Taxpayers also paid the motel bills of Giuliani's security detail when they were stationed in the Hamptons and when the cops traveled in Pennsylvania, Nathan's home state.

The records show two charges for gas - $22.72 and $17 - on April 8, 2000, in Tannersville, Pa., located about a half-hour outside Nathan's hometown of Hazleton.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012007/news/regionalnews/rudy_aide_took_hampton_holiday_on_your_d_635857.htm

Pretty high priced room, even for a mayor's aid.

In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani's then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents' Pennsylvania home 130 miles away on the taxpayers' dime.

Records show that city cops refueled at an ExxonMobil station down the road from Nathan's childhood home in Hazleton on Oct. 20, 2001, while Giuliani stayed behind in New York attending 9/11 funerals.

A similar receipt pops up at a different Hazleton gas station two months later, when Nathan apparently went home for a pre-Christmas visit with her parents.

The records show that - in addition to using City Hall funds to take Giuliani and Nathan to 11 secret trysts in the Hamptons, as has been previously reported - taxpayers were paying to ferry Nathan on long-distance trips without Giuliani, now a Republican contender for President

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/01/2007-12-01_city_taxpayers_picked_up_tab_for_judith_-1.html

Now being a Republican, if he worked for Bush, he'd get promoted. But since he's a candidate for President, is he done? Should we stick a fork in him now? And if he is done, which of the remaining candidates does this help?
 

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There's more coming out

Rudy Giuliani's secret relationship with Judith Nathan forced taxpayers to pick up the hotel tab for a mayoral aide assigned to work one summer weekend in Southampton, according to city documents.

Records show that Manny Papir, a longtime advance man for Giuliani, billed the city $331.16 for a Friday-night stay at the Southampton Inn on Aug. 20, 1999.

At the time, Giuliani was visiting Nathan at her condo in the Long Island village. She would later become his third wife.

"If you're a mayoral aide and you go out of town with the mayor, you've got to stay somewhere," explained one of Giuliani's current aides.

Taxpayers also paid the motel bills of Giuliani's security detail when they were stationed in the Hamptons and when the cops traveled in Pennsylvania, Nathan's home state.

The records show two charges for gas - $22.72 and $17 - on April 8, 2000, in Tannersville, Pa., located about a half-hour outside Nathan's hometown of Hazleton.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012007/news/regionalnews/rudy_aide_took_hampton_holiday_on_your_d_635857.htm

Pretty high priced room, even for a mayor's aid.

In the fall of 2001, city cops chauffeured Rudy Giuliani's then-mistress, Judith Nathan, to her parents' Pennsylvania home 130 miles away on the taxpayers' dime.

Records show that city cops refueled at an ExxonMobil station down the road from Nathan's childhood home in Hazleton on Oct. 20, 2001, while Giuliani stayed behind in New York attending 9/11 funerals.

A similar receipt pops up at a different Hazleton gas station two months later, when Nathan apparently went home for a pre-Christmas visit with her parents.

The records show that - in addition to using City Hall funds to take Giuliani and Nathan to 11 secret trysts in the Hamptons, as has been previously reported - taxpayers were paying to ferry Nathan on long-distance trips without Giuliani, now a Republican contender for President

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/01/2007-12-01_city_taxpayers_picked_up_tab_for_judith_-1.html

Now being a Republican, if he worked for Bush, he'd get promoted. But since he's a candidate for President, is he done? Should we stick a fork in him now? And if he is done, which of the remaining candidates does this help?

It does show that he will play fast and free with taxpayer money.
 
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Yep--Another open and transparent "fiscal conservative" Republican :roll: :wink: :lol: I'm not sure this nation can withstand another one :( :mad: :mad: Just a "paltry" $200,000 of taxpayers money misappropriated and hid in the paperwork.....

Heres how the conservative media is reporting it:


Rudy Girlfriend Got Security at Public Expense

Saturday, December 1, 2007 8:14 AM

By: Randy Hall

For a period of time in 2000-2001, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City and married to another woman, his "very good friend" Judith Nathan received police protection 12 hours a day, seven days a week, which cost the city about $200,000 per year - in addition to the security provided for his wife and children at the mayor's mansion.
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Ed Koch, who served as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, told the Huffington Post that the situation gave the appearance that Giuliani was trying to hide an affair with his future wife and that arranging personal protection when she was not a member of the family constituted an even more flagrant misuse of taxpayer money.

"That was bizarre," he said. "She's not the city's responsibility. Rudy is the city's responsibility. Your wife and children get protection, and that's understood - but certainly not your lady friend."

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Nevertheless, calls to the Giuliani campaign by Cybercast News Service seeking an explanation as to why taxpayers were required to pay for a security detail for Judith Nathan when she was not married to the mayor and the mayor was married to someone else were not returned by press time.
full story:
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Rudy_Girlfriend_Got_Secur/2007/12/01/53698.html
 
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