Guiliani: Cheating on Wife, Cheating Taxpayers

Submitted by Andy Axel on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 20:05.

What are the odds this gets discussed on the CNN YouTube GOP debate?

The Politico reports...

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.

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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.

So, it appears that America's Mayor diddled his wife-to-be, simultaneously cheating on his then-wife; all of this on the taxpayers dime - to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. What a sterling example of human character.

No word yet from Mr. 9iu11ani. I'm presuming this will run somewhere along the lines of "youthful indiscretion" and/or "misunderstanding."


WhitesCreek's picture
The "Right" thing to do

Rudie was only filing false expense reports with NYC agencies that were supposed to help poor children, don't you see? By taking money from the kids, he was showing them his tough love, or something of his was showing.

(I'm not sure this makes any sense but I was tied with Bizgrrl)

he was showing them his

he was showing them his tough love

There's definitely something to that. As Josh Marshall points out, he seems to have been going for maximum chutzpah. His fans seem to respond to this nietzschean Übermensch style.

WhitesCreek's picture
I think we may soon be able

I think we may soon be able to write off Giulianni as a candidate. Apparently there's some question of his pushing to locate the WTT command center in building 7, a known target, in order to be able to walk to meet his mistress.

Rudy's sex life may have cost other people their lives.

It really galls me, though,

It really galls me, though, that it takes a sex-related scandal to push him over the edge. His comments about torture should have been enough to disqualify him for dogcatcher, much less president.

As Jimmy Breslin quipped, "he's a small man in need of a balcony."

R. Neal's picture
Not to mention possible ties

Not to mention possible ties to terrorism supporters:

Link...

We Democrats certainly...

would never put up a reprobate such as "Julie" for prez. Would we? Have we ever?

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