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Title: Giuliani Says Some Clients of Law Firm Must Remain Confidential
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Bloomberg
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Published: Dec 9, 2007
Author: By Elliot Blair Smith
Post Date: 2007-12-09 22:41:20 by DeaconBenjamin
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Views: 218
Comments: 8
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Rudy Giuliani said he won't release a full list of his law firm's clients while campaigning for the White House because of confidentiality agreements. Giuliani, interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," said the Houston-based law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, with offices in Europe, the Middle East and parts of the former Soviet Union, is prevented by such agreements from disclosing client relations. The former New York mayor said most of the clients that he worked with at the law firm and at a separate consulting firm, Giuliani Partners LLC, have been publicly identified. Giuliani, who leads most national polls of Republican voters while trailing in the first states that hold nomination contests, defended his work with such entities such as the government of Qatar and Citgo Petroleum Corp., the company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government. "The reality is that none of them amount to anything other than ethical, lawful, decent work," Giuliani, 63, said. "None of them involve any conflict of any kind." He said he no longer is involved in the day-to-day operations of his private businesses, which continue to compensate him. "I'm an owner," he said, adding, "I'll live up to whatever ethical or legal obligations are required." Relationship With Kerik Giuliani also described as bad judgment his appointment of Bernard B. Kerik as New York City's corrections commissioner in 1998, its police commissioner in 2000 and in late 2004 his recommendation of Kerik to the White House to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In November, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York indicted Kerik for alleged conspiracy and tax fraud from 1998 to 2006. According to the indictment, Kerik concealed $500,000 in payments on his federal tax returns and on financial disclosure forms to his city employer, and then tried to persuade witnesses to lie about the payments. His work allegedly included consulting for a New Jersey waste-management firm that was being investigated by local and state authorities for ties to organized crime. "I made a mistake in not vetting him carefully enough," Giuliani said. "There were enough facts known where I should not have recommended him. I should have found them out. It was my fault. I take responsibility for it." Giuliani, New York city's mayor from 1994 through 2001, and previously a federal prosecutor, defended his overall record. "I know my judgment is not going to be 100 percent correct. You try to get to 100 percent. It's been correct enough so that I've had a great deal of success. I've been able to deal with crisis very effectively. And I've been able to turn things around that other people haven't been able to turn around."
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#1. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
Must suck not being able to name the American Nazi Party or Aryan Nation. That would help him in the primaries. Does anyone really think Rudy has a chance anymore? Look for him to discover prostate cancer again.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
And his Father did time in Sing Sing as a common crook.
"Giuliani has long described papa Harold as a hard-working Brooklyn tavern owner, a "complete man" who taught him the "lesson of being honest." However, in examining Rudy's family tree, Barrett discovered that Giuliani the Elder wasn't such a sweetheart. In fact, Harold was a convicted felon, an armed stickup man who once spent time in Sing Sing after pleading guilty to robbing a milkman. Sentenced to 2-5 years, Harold spent 18 months in the stir before being paroled (Rudy, ironically, is a leading proponent of abolishing parole). Barrett also learned that Harold, whose rap sheet included a couple of other busts, worked as an enforcer for a relative's loan sharking operation, using a baseball bat as his enforcement tool of choice. "
Since Ruby's Law Firm represents the North American Unioners, I don't blame the quisling...
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
He's a lawyer, therefore the above statement is an impossibility. That makes him a GD liar and a hypocrite.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Mekons4: Must suck not being able to name the American Nazi Party or Aryan Nation. That would help him in the primaries. What's that supposed to mean?
I think Mekons4 is trying to say "if we're not for JulieAnnie, we're nazis and Aryan Nations members."
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx m-quatro is an Illegal Alien loving Socialist...
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
Republican Rudy Giuliani said he won't release a full list of his law firm's clients while campaigning for the White House because of confidentiality agreements.
#2. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
#3. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
#4. To: TwentyTwelve (#0)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#5. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
(Edited)
"The reality is that none of them amount to anything other than ethical, lawful, decent work," Giuliani, 63,
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#6. To: Mekons4 (#1)
article: Republican Rudy Giuliani said he won't release a full list of his law firm's clients while campaigning for the White House because of confidentiality agreements.
#7. To: scrapper2, FOH (#6)
(Edited)
What's that supposed to mean?
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#8. To: IndieTX, mekons4 (#7)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
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