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Okay, so we've heard about how Rudy Giuliani's mayoral administration billed his police security detail expenses - accrued during trips to the Hamptons, possibly visiting then-mistress Judi Nathan - to various obscure city agencies. And then there are reports that Nathan, now married to the former mayor, used her NYPD security detail to chauffeur friends and family. Naturally, now there's talk of the police security expenses of Giuliani's then-wife Donna Hanover.
The Post's David Seifman points out that Hanover's travels "cost tax payers a lot more" than Giuliani's jaunts to see Nathan. Hanover apparently traveled to California a number of times during their separation:
In June 2000 - a month after Giuliani shocked the city by unexpectedly announcing his separation from Hanover at a routine press event in Bryant Park - his jilted wife headed west every weekend.The NYPD security details also made sure to charge the fees for luggage carts on their expense reports, too. Still, we think security for the wife and family of the mayor is a legitimate expense - who wouldn't want to get away from the husband that broke the news of their separation during a press conference? And it's nothing like the mayor's mistress having NYPD detectives walk her dog.The June trips alone cost taxpayers a total of $27,721 in security expenses.
The stay on June 17-24 required an advance team of two cops, who spent $1,591.71. Four cops who accompanied Hanover and son Andrew Giuliani ran up an additional $10,582 bill...
A six-day trip in November 2000, when Hanover brought daughter Caroline Giuliani to Los Angeles, required the services of six cops who put $19,065.27 on their city-supplied American Express cards.
Neither Judi nor Rudy will discuss when they exactly met, but it's believed they met in the first half of 1999. And Talking Points Memo calls the money for Nathan-related expenses the Shag Fund.
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OK, now the Post is just reaching.
Rudy's nomination chances should be toast, but the Republican field is so flawed, he still has a chance. I know candidates were knocked out for very trivial stuff in other primaries.
Where do these people get the idea that they are such targets that they need this security?? Now Bloomberg, a billionaire, is a legitimate target for ransom. I would think his family and girlfriend would warrant security. But to my knowledge, they eschew it.
In the grand scheme of things, simple corruption of this kind won't DQ Rudy. This is really a backdoor way to bring up the fidelty issue. I wouldn't be surprised if the ex-wife dropped the dime on her expenses herself.
Also, there are so many other reasons to not vote for Rudy that this will get lost in the shuffle.
It's not the adultery, but rather the "evasive" billing issue that will slowly eat away at his campaign...
It's the GOP, it's always the sex...especially when they say it's not.
If you look at our national debt, it's obvious Americans aren't voting for an accountant.
"If you look at our national debt, it's obvious Americans aren't voting for an accountant."?
MJG, Best summary of the Electorate so far...
The Mayor & his immediate family get police protection. That's no problem. The problems are:
1. We taxpayers should not have to pay for detectives chauffering the Mayor's girlfriend and her friends around like a private taxi service.
2. We taxpayers should not have to pay for around the clock police bodyguards for the Mayor's girlfriend.
3. We taxpayers ahould not have had our millions spent not o a secure emergency command center in a safe location, but on a "love nest" close enough to City Hall for the Mayor's midafternoon quickies.
4. Rudy is taking money from the same people who aided, abetted and gave refuge to the man behind 9-11, and continues to take money from the same nation that is one of the main sponsors of al-Quaeda. BIG PROBLEM!
Rudy simply does not know how to handle power without abusing it.
The Mayor & his immediate family get police protection. That's no problem. The problems are:
1. We taxpayers should not have to pay for detectives chauffering the Mayor's girlfriend and her friends around like a private taxi service.
2. We taxpayers should not have to pay for around the clock police bodyguards for the Mayor's girlfriend.
3. We taxpayers ahould not have had our millions spent not o a secure emergency command center in a safe location, but on a "love nest" close enough to City Hall for the Mayor's midafternoon quickies.
4. Rudy is taking money from the same people who aided, abetted and gave refuge to the man behind 9-11, and continues to take money from the same nation that is one of the main sponsors of al-Quaeda. BIG PROBLEM!
Rudy simply does not know how to handle power without abusing it.