Ghouliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service.
- From: Harry Hope <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:58:08 -0500
From ABC News, 11/29/07:http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/giulianis-mistr.html
Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service
Richard Esposito Reports:
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.
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Hey, Rudy, put your dress on and repeat after
me...9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11..9/11...
Harry
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