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Title: Rudy billed NY agencies for time in LI Lovenest
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/28/153047/05
Published: Nov 28, 2007
Author: "demkat620"
Post Date: 2007-11-28 15:54:00 by aristeides
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Rudy billed NY agencies for time in LI Lovenest by demkat620 [Subscribe] According to a new article by Ben Smith at the Politico, Rudy may have billed thousands of dollars to obscure New York agencies for weekend getaways with Judith Nathan on Long Island. According to Smith who acquired the documents with a FOIA request: 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. Could this be more of Rudy's skeletons falling out of the closet? Smith also reports some of the details of that travel. Four police officers spent the night at the Atlantic Utopia Lifestyle Inn, according to an approval request for official out-of-city travel, billing the city $1,016.20. Giuliani’s private schedule, available from the municipal archive, lists no events on Long Island that day. And how did these expenses first come to light you ask? One of his auditors, he wrote, had stumbled upon the unexplained travel expenses during a routine audit of the Loft Board, a tiny branch of city government that regulates certain apartments. Broadening the inquiry, the comptroller wrote, auditors found similar expenses at a range of other unlikely agencies: $10,054 billed to the Office for People With Disabilities and $29,757 to the Procurement Policy Board. The next year, yet another obscure department, the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, was billed around $400,000 for travel. And oh, how about when these trips occurred? Receipts show him in Southampton every weekend in August and the first weekend in September of 2001, before the terror attacks of Sept. 11 disrupted the routines of his city. So Rudy was shacking up with Nathan, billing the city for his travel and expenses, hiding those expenses by spreading them around to various agencies and doing all this in the time leading up to September 11th. This story is also the screamer headline on Drudge and you just gotta wonder who put the bug in Smith's ear. Was it Bloomberg or one of the other campaigns or maybe the other Judy? Who knows but this is not the last shoe to drop with the Rudy! campaign.
Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 12:42:03 PM PST 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 first trip to Southampton appearing in the travel documents runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, 1999.
The billing practices, however, drew formal attention on Jan. 24, 2002, when Thompson, the city comptroller, wrote the newly elected mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a confidential letter.
The trips themselves were a departure for a mayor who had prided himself on spending every waking moment in the city and on the job, and offer a glimpse into the dramatic and controversial finale to his tenure in office.
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I wonder if, by "the first weekend in September of 2001" Smith means Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1-3 in 2001), or the following weekend, Sept. 8-9. If the latter, that's cutting it awfully close to 9/11. I wonder when Rudy got back to work.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
well, that may be, but reverend robertson says rudy is the man, so why do you hate god?
Gypsy woman said to me, one thing you must bear in your mind: The Core, Eric Clapton
This story makes clear that Giuliani's affair with Judith Nathan started at latest by August of 1999, eight months or so before the New York Daily News made it public.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
From the Politico story cited in the Daily Kos diary. The billing apparently covers the period 1999-2001. The NY Daily News broke the news of the affair between Giuliani and Nathan in May 2000.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Sounds like he and Kerik are cut from the same cloth..
Receipts show him in Southampton every weekend in August and the first weekend in September of 2001, before the terror attacks of Sept. 11 disrupted the routines of his city.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
You are young and you are free, but damned if youre deceased in your own lifetime.
#3. To: gengis gandhi (#2)
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#5. To: Zipporah (#4)
The first trip to Southampton appearing in the travel documents runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, 1999.
#6. To: aristeides (#5)
Now his double affair laid bare
Kerik cheated on wife with Judith Regan
and correction officer
BY RUSS BUETTNER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the passionate liaisons, the Daily News has learned.
The first relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction Officer Jeanette Pinero; the second, and more startling, was with famed publishing titan Judith Regan.
His affair with Regan, the stunningly attractive head of her own book publishing company, lasted for almost a year.
Dramatically, each woman learned of the existence of the other after Pinero discovered a love note left by Regan in the apartment.
The revelations about Kerik's private life come as repercussions over his suitability to be nominated for the post of secretary of homeland security. Kerik, 49, married with two children from his current marriage, withdrew his name from consideration in a sudden and unexpected call to the White House on Friday night.
Kerik said that questions about the immigration status of his family's former nanny and failure to pay taxes prompted his decision to walk away from the job. But speculation has continued that there were deeper and more controversial reasons.
Yesterday, The News reported that a six-month investigation showed Kerik had accepted thousands of dollars in cash and gifts without proper disclosure, and had ties to a construction company that investigators believe is linked to the mob.
Now revelations about his private life also cast a shadow on his suitability for one of the administration's highest-profile cabinet positions.
Asked about the affairs and the secret love nest yesterday, Joseph Tacopina, Kerik's attorney, said Kerik and Regan had denied the affair in the past.
Tacopina said Kerik's "friendship" with Pinero ended in 1996.
He would not comment on the apartment.
Regan could not be reached for comment.
But sources with intimate knowledge of both affairs painted a picture of passionate, and sometimes volatile, liaisons.
The tumultuous Regan-Kerik romance carried on for months, through the writing, publication and promotion of his autobiography, "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice," which Regan's company published.
The two worked out together most mornings at the New York Sports Club in Rockefeller Center and often dined at Fresco restaurant in midtown, according to sources.
Kerik visited Regan's Central Park West apartment almost daily, and occasionally stayed the night, with his police detail camped outside.
They became so close that Kerik's two nieces stayed with Regan while the commissioner's sister was hospitalized, one source said.
Regan visited the Battery Park apartment several times, the source said, but apparently never knew that his actual residence at that time was an apartment on E. 79th St.
Furnished corporate rentals similar to the unit Kerik used, according to the sources, are advertised at monthly rents from $3,150 to $6,200. Representatives of Milstein Properties, whichs owns the Liberty View, could not be reached yesterday.
After one encounter, Regan left a romantic note, which was later discovered by Pinero. The two later spoke on the phone.
"She wanted to know if Judith was still seeing him," the source said. "She told Regan about their affair and Regan told her she was shocked."
Many close to Kerik in the mid-1990s assumed that someday he would marry Pinero, a career correction officer described as spirited and attractive by friends, a close friend and a former high-ranking Correction Department source said.
The relationship continued after Kerik married Hala Matli, a hygienist in his dentist's office whom he met in mid-1996 and wed in November 1998, according to multiple sources close to Pinero and Kerik.
Kerik's affair with Pinero is at the center of two lawsuits against the city, both brought by correction employees who claimed Kerik retaliated after they crossed her.
The city settled one last year for $250,000, The News reported at the time.
The second suit, in which Pinero and Kerik were deposed last week, was filed by former Deputy Warden Eric DeRavin 3rd, who claims Kerik quashed his promotion after he reprimanded Pinero. The city demanded a gag order on both depositions.
I call shenanigans
Now it's Judy's turn to cry.
Funny how that deposition got leaked.
Because there is no way in hell this makes the papers if it wasn't. They have documentary proof of all these allegations.
So how did Bernie Kerik afford a corporate apartment while living on swanky, silk stocking E. 79th Street? Was it used by the PD to hide witnesses, keep dignitaries housed or was it on the pad?
Now, how did the White House miss this one? That had to be the first question. Did you have a wandering dick? The answer should have been no, or yes, but there should have been an answer.
And the Pinero thing is a real mess. With this in the open, the city is going to have to settle for more than $250K, because now, the perception of bias is clear. And the use of the cops to get that cell phone, well, now we know why. Everyone who sued them was paid off and I wonder where that money came from.
No wonder Bernie was coming home at midinight. He was plugging two women and his wife. Jesus.
Well, he was emulating his boss.
The Dems were going to give him a pass for one simple reason: unvarnished, naked greed. They want more money for their cities. But no one knew all this shit existed in his background. Oh, the papers had an idea, but only Ray Kelly knew much of this was out there. What? The PD leaked this?
Come on, Kelly wouldn't piss on Kerik if he was on fire, as opposed to Giuliani, who he would toss another gallon of gas on. You don't think IAB had a thick assed file on him and his friends, collected in secret, if nowhere else? The contempt Kelly felt was visible and his silence was clear.
Why?
Because Kerik was on the fucking pad. That's why. You don't think the FBI mentioned to Kelly all of Kerik's mob friends? You don't think he wondered about the Taser deal? Kelly thought Kerik had used the PC's office to enrich himself and was using his former status on 9/11 to get even richer.
The next set of questions should follow the way Giuliani raised money after 9/11. Giuliani Partners was formed in the wake of that, and he loaded that charity with his friends. No one questioned why the mayor needed a personal charity. Now, since the cloak of 9/11 is finally being lifted, it's time for some hard questions about Kerik and his patron.
Update: Atrios added this wee bit of hypocrisy from Ms. Regan
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