(Giuliani) Tryst Fund 'Sickens' Ex-Official

[brooklynite]

Source: NY Post

December 2, 2007 -- A former Giuliani administration official says he's "sick" over reports that his little-known agency was used to hide taxpayer money that funded police escorts during the ex-mayor's romantic rendezvous in the Hamptons.

"The cover-up of this and the explanations for it have been so disingenuous," said Brendan Sexton, who chaired the Procurement Policy Board in 2000. The panel was charged $29,757 for travel bills racked up by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's security detail as he hung out with then-girlfriend Judith Nathan on Long Island.

"He didn't want anybody to know what he was doing. That's the truth. I don't care about his personal life - it's not shocking to me that he wanted to visit his girlfriend," added Sexton, a Democrat who served as sanitation commissioner under Ed Koch.

"The part that's disturbing to me is that my organization or any government organization could be used to conceal from the public how their money was being spent."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022007/news/nationalnews/tryst_fund_sickens_ex_official_868307.htm

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Apparently the Post has decided it can't just ignore the story and hope it goes away...

[rzemanfl]

1. Well I certainly understand the "Procurement" part, but where

does "Policy" fit into this? This guy was made a pimp and he didn't even get fancy clothes or a pimpmobile.

[rodeodance]

2. REPEAT--REPUG cult of corruption!! over and over.

[tekisui]

11. It is to be the mantra from now until November 2008.

In the next 11 months I hope to see AT LEAST 11 major scandals. It looks like Rudy will have December.

Repub Culture of Corruption runs deep.

[DLnyc]

3. A possible alternate explanation

The Post, as a money-losing rightwing propaganda organ, isn't likely to trash Rudi unless there is some strategy behind it. Noting here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3781801
that Mr. Ghoul's support is mostly in the Northeast and West Coast, could it be that the repub insiders are figuring he would lose in the general (NE and WC are going Dem regardless, so Rudi's support among repubs there will be a waste) and are giving him the heave-ho. Of course, Rudi wouldn't be the type to leave "for the good of the party", so perhaps he's being pushed overboard.

Just a theory.

[customerserviceguy]

15. I've been thinking that, too

couple that with the rise in the polls of Hucksterbee, and they're trying to prepare us for direct rule by the religious right, with their own baptist preacher in charge!

[Cha]

16. rudi's past makes it

easy to lose him.

Wonder if judy's any good at nursing rudi's wounds now that he's a pariah?

[DLnyc]

17. Um, somehow she doesn't strike me as the caring compassionate type.

Don't think she will take kindly to her alpha male losing status. Rudi better start working on number 4, is my guess.

[Cha]

20. Riiiight! It doesn't

count that it's her dog and ass that was carted around on New York City People's money.

[leftynyc]

24. Don't be surprised is she divorces him

when she isn't first lady. I think that's why she married him.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. She does not strike me as the type to stick around a loser for too long.

She was riding his coattails, and if his coattails get full of mud, she is jumping off...FAST!!!

[Cha]

21. Nevermind that those tails

were built on quicksand.

[Reno.Muse]

4. I've worked for a small city government and this could never have happened ...

without auditors looking the other way. Result = fraud.

[truthisfreedom]

5. The ghoul is the new gift that just keeps on giving. Perhaps he and craig should do a book tour.

Might be all that's left of their political careers.

[samsingh]

6. what a guy

uses public money to fund his sex life.

uses the 911 tragedy to further his career (a tragedy compounded by his ineptitude as major)

he fits right in with the other repug leaders - sorry i meant swine

[boricua79]

7. keep hammering

people should keep shouting to Giuliani.

"Hey, how's your girlfriend? Did she get home safe yesterday? Were the taxpayer chaffeurs and bodyguards adequate?"

Keep repeating, ad nauseum. Make him HAVE to address it.

[robbedvoter]

8. They burned Hevesi at the stake for driving his sick wife to the doctor

Why isn't anyone pointing out that the Shag Fund was THEFT from the city money?
From a Mayor that put the city budget in the red first time in 18 years? It was OUR money - not his!

[vankuria]

9. About Hevesi

He actually paid the money back, won reelection and then was forced to step down.

[BrklynLiberal]

22. I agree 100%. If hevesi was forced to resign after repaying money, and being duly elected by those

who knew his crime...the Giuliani should be in a striped suit, behind bars.

[AllyCat]

10. But there's an R after his name and they talked about Jeeesuss

at the Repug debate. I'm sure he's a good family values kind of guy and has probably asked God for forgiveness. He's probably joined Ted Haggard in rehab too. I'm sure it's all fine now.

[Supersedeas]

12. not even a blimp of the GOP/TV Media Establishment radar

[madrchsod]

13. when is he going to be charged?

no one can sweep this under the rug

[LynneSin]

14. I'm so glad Pat Robertson endorsed them

They're a couple made in hell!

[allisonthegreat]

18. lol n/t

[BenDavid]

23. Well, it does no good unless the msm gets involved in

this situation. Just like the jeff cannon situation back several years and the false name and all the visits made to the white house when there was no press briefing. Just whom was this man there to see? Or provide a service too? Hell, I am of the mind set unless it does not involve Clinton's cock there is no reporting.

Ben David

[Rambis]

25. Quit beating around the bush and call it what it is, A Fuck Fund!

:evilgrin: