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Still unanswered

November 30, 2007 6:38 AM

Regarding the Rudy Giuliani billings controversy (World News video HERE, Good Morning America video HERE, and dot-com story HERE) ...

The New York Post says: RUDY PINS BLAME ON NYPD, since the Mayor is saying he charged his security detail's expenses to city agencies because the NYPD was so late in reimbursing his officers.

The New York Daily News, referring to a claim made then taken back by former deputy Mayor Joe Lhota, says: DOESN'T ADD UP.

(The claim was that this accounting practice, of billing security detail expenses to obscure city agencies and having the NYPD reimburse those agencies, was a longstanding practice that predated the Giuliani
administration. Both the Dinkins and Koch administrations disputed that and Lhota took it back.)

Here are some questions I still don't have the answers to, assuming that the Mayor's explanations are correct and righteous.

Why spread out the expenses among lots of city agencies instead of just one?

Why not tell this to Ben Smith and the Politico when he first called to ask about these records and the city comptroller's concern about them?

Why not share any information with the city comptroller when questions were first asked about this six years ago?

Did Bernie Kerik have anything to do with any of this?

-- jpt

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What about Hilary using the IRS and FBI with taxpayers money to attack the woman Bill Molested!!

Posted by: SayNoToSocialism | Dec 1, 2007 11:12:17 PM

people please understand this was RUDY girlfriend and not part of his immediate family ;that expence should have been rudy's not the state police dept.

Posted by: ruthven | Dec 1, 2007 5:12:11 PM

this is no different than RUDY'S henchman KERIK using that apartment in BATTERY PARK for his personal courtship hideaway in the wake of 911,i expected better of him.

Posted by: ruthven | Dec 1, 2007 4:20:11 PM

Did Mark S.M. read the entire story? Why were members of the NYPD serving as personal drivers/security to Giuliani's MISTRESS???

If Giuliani had an iota of integrity he'd reimburse the City of New York out of his personal fortune.

The one good thing - maybe this will finally wake up the rest of the country to Giuliani's temperament. The man not only wants to be king but emperor, the rest of the country be damned.

Posted by: GordonsGirl | Nov 30, 2007 11:05:20 AM

There's no way to make a wrong a right..(is there)..??..but does Acct. 101 really amount to right and wrong or just ACCTS. Payable-Recievable..??//..did the Rudy Giuliani TEAM(NYCPD)..allow the money to travel in a best-likely recievable chapter for those days(I seem to have that opinion)..is that wise or just careless..or CITIES have no real LOGIC when its a day-camp adventure,,I think Rudy was deserving of the expenditure..the former mayor did exact his 24/7 cover guard..of course we onl heard the small tidbit of the allocated SUMS..but in that small BIT I seem to find alot of waste other-wise TOUTED as proper channels..the money amounts seemed very courteous on the side of the Police-necessities..the story sucks about real life in the fast lane.

Posted by: Mark S. M. | Nov 30, 2007 9:03:58 AM

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