- Having reached a level of popularity and success
unprecedented
in recent American politics you might think Rudy Giuliani would relax and
enjoy life now that he s no longer Mayor. Instead, he s busy forming a
shadow NYC government consisting of most of his former aides, top-level
appointees and commissioners.
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- The transplanted Giuliani administration - renamed
"Giuliani
Partners" - is now a subsidiary of Earnst & Young, the world's
largest accounting company. In a clever legal maneuver drawn from
Machiavelli
s dictum to keep one s friends close and one s [potential] enemies closer,
Giuliani signed the company into existence a few minutes after midnight
on January 1st.
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- Among the Giuliani associates signed on so far are Police
Commissioner Kerik, Fire Commissioner van Essen, NYC Corporation Counsel
Michael Hess, Giuliani s political advisor and Senate campaign manager
Bruce Teiltelbaum, Anthony Carbonetti the Mayor s chief of staff, Dennison
Young Giuliani's personal attorney and various other deputy Mayors and
aides. His team of NYPD bodyguards will also remain with Giuliani - at
taxpayer expense. These are all men whose testimony could potentially
destroy Giuliani s newly-minted reputation as civic-saint.
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- Two days later he announced the creation of the 'Rudolph
W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc.'. According to the NY Daily News
the privately funded center will initially create a Presidential-style
Giuliani library consisting of documents from his administration's eight
years in office. While the former Mayor claims the library will only have
copies of the tons of publicly-owned paperwork generated by his
administration,
making the copies could take years. Right before leaving office Giuliani
had the originals removed from city property to a private warehouse. With
employees of Giuliani Partners doing the copying, many incriminating
documents
can be expected to disappear in the process.
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- Giuliani and his 700 Corporation Counsel lawyers have
a proven history of refusing to produce documents when required to do so
by judges. During the past eight years numerous lawsuits had to be filed
by NY State and NYC officials attempting to get materials they were
legally
mandated to have access to as part of running the City government or by
the media trying to verify administration statistics through the freedom
of information act. Any attorney who has ever been involved in a lawsuit
with the Giuliani administration knows they never give up incriminating
material.
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- What does Giuliani have to hide? To start with he spent
the past eight years falsifying every statistic generated by his
administration.
After manipulating the City s numbers for so long it is not surprising
that he leaves the mayoralty to work for the world's largest accounting
firm. During Reagan s presidency, Giuliani was in charge of crime
statistics
for the Justice Department.
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- Among the kinds of documents that it might be in
Giuliani's
interests to lose are details of his budget; of the real number of New
Yorkers arrested whose cases were dismissed as false arrests; of the
actual
number of crimes committed in the City in contrast to the bogus crime
statistics he's publicly released; data on how many of those kicked off
welfare actually got jobs; documents showing serious conflicts of interest
between the Mayor and various contractors, real estate interests and
corporations
that received billons of dollars in contracts with the City; and documents
detailing the negotiations behind billions of dollars given by the Mayor
to David Rockefeller, baseball team owners, and the owners of the NY
media.
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- The members of Giuliani Partners are also the key
witnesses
in numerous ongoing lawsuits and investigations involving Giuliani. Many
have already been subpeonaed to appear for depositions or are named as
defendants in the same cases. While he was Mayor, Giuliani's Corporation
Counsels managed to keep him from ever having to testify in a trial or
submit to a deposition based on the concept that the City would suffer
if he took time from his 'official' duties. Now that he's no longer
Mayor,
he and all of his aides are fair game for the depositions.
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- Here are eight out of hundreds of legal issues Giuliani
Partners has an interest in suppressing now that he s left office. At the
end of this article you ll find mainstream media quotes documenting each
one.
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- 1- A Federal investigation into why the WTC collapsed.
Engineers appointed to do the investigation have accused Giuliani of
obstructing
the investigation and destroying thousands of tons of crucial evidence.
Investigators also want to know why the FDNY allowed the Mayor to
illegally
store 6,000 gallons of highly flammable fuel in WTC7, which is alleged
to have caused the buildings' destruction. Among the questions Giuliani
might have to face about 9/11 are why he located his emergency command
bunker in the U.S. building Federal authorities most expected to be
attacked
by terrorists.
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- Also related to the 9/11 attack are questions as to why
workers in the towers were told to return to their desks rather than
evacuate
and why so many members of the FDNY were unable to be contacted on their
radios, causing them to die in the towers. NYPD Commissioner Kerik might
also be questioned at some point about the coincidence of his having
worked
as a head of security for the Saudi royal family before joining the
NYPD.
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- 2. Police misconduct. There are still ongoing Federal
and State investigations and lawsuits about the stop and frisk policy,
racial profiling and the police shootings of four unarmed men - Abner
Louima, Amadou Diallo, Patrick Dorismond and Gidone Busch - all of whose
families have pending lawsuits directly involving Giuliani. There are
also issues about Giuliani forcing police officers to meet arrest
quotas.
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- 3. His divorce. Giuliani's second wife, Donna Hanover
has accused the former Mayor of committing adultery with his former press
secretary, Christene Lategano and with current girlfriend, Judi Nathan.
The accusation involving Lategano has an additional component which could
lead to criminal charges. She was a NYC employee at the time. When he
prepared to run for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton, Giuliani
transferred her from her City Hall job in which she was constantly in
front of the inquiring media to a new $150,000 a year job as head of the
Tourism Bureau, where her only duty seems to have been spending millions
of dollars on ads promoting the Mayor s accomplishments. Using public funds
to pay off a mistress would be a criminal charge and at the least could
cause Giuliani serious embarrassment and the likely loss of the Vice
Presidential nomination.
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- 4. Personal injury lawsuits. There are numerous Federal
and State personal injury lawsuits by people who were falsely arrested
which name Giuliani and a number of the 'Giuliani Partners' as defendants.
These include a class-action suit now in the works by people illegally
put through the system as a punishment for demonstrating against the
Mayor.
When Giuliani's divorce lawyer, Raoul Felder, told the judge that 'Poor
Rudy' was almost broke, he wasn't factoring in a $3 million dollar book
deal, the $100,000 a speech fee he now charges to do his Godfather and
Marilyn Monroe imitations at corporate events or the millions in lobbying
fees that will be generated as Giuliani Partners begins manipulating the
Bloomberg administration from within and without. The Mayor could end up
personally liable in some or all of those cases. If the real facts of how
he personally ordered political opponents falsely arrested were to come
out, 'America's Mayor' could find himself facing millions in personal
damages. Member of Giuliani Partners are the key witnesses in these cases
and the documents he wants to get control of are the main source of
evidence.
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- 5. The sources, true amounts and present location of
millions of dollars in campaign donations he received while running for
the U.S. Senate. After dropping out of the race Giuliani decided to keep
most of the money rather than give it to his replacement, Rick Lazio,
who ultimately lost the election to Hillary Clinton. The majority of those
donations were from people who did not live in NY State. Much of it was
raised by using mailing lists bought from extremist far right groups with
racist connections.
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- 6. The West Nile Virus pesticide spraying from 1999-2001.
In 1999 Giuliani ordered helicopters to repeatedly spray nerve gas based
pesticides directly on the City's human population in response to what
was falsely depicted as a raging epidemic. Every warning printed on the
pesticide's label was ignored, including directions that it must never
be sprayed over water or on people and that a minimum 12 hour waiting
period should elapse before allowing anyone into areas that were sprayed.
Although a chemical contamination handbook with Giuliani's name on the
cover is located in every NYC police precinct and ambulance which
describes
the chemical - Malathion - as a dangerous toxin related to WWII nerve
gasses, Giuliani appeared at press conferences repeatedly insisting that
it was 'completely safe'. In 2000 and 2001 Giuliani repeated his toxic
attack on the City's health this time using other equally dangerous
pesticides
sprayed from trucks. Among those suing the City for health problems
related
to the spraying are NYPD officers ordered to accompany the spray trucks
without using any protective gear, many of the unskilled men the City
hired to do the spraying, members of the lobster fishing industry whose
livelihoods were destroyed when the Malathion caused a massive die-off
of lobsters after it was sprayed over water in direct violation of NY
State law and thousands of New Yorkers who suffered negative health
effects.
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- 7. The last minute contracts to build new stadiums for
the Yankees and Mets. Giuliani has made no secret of his close
relationships
with the NY Yankees owner, George Steinbrenner and with the Mets owner,
Fred Wilpon. In 2001 he built each of these billionaires a minor league
stadium at an expense to the taxpayers of $130 million dollars. Days
before
leaving office Giuliani signed a deal to build the Yankees and Mets each
a new major league stadium at an estimated cost of $1.6 billion. Civic
experts argue that sports stadiums are not a good investment for cities,
let alone with Giuliani leaving a $4 billion deficit in his wake. Giuliani
arranged for his former Deputy Mayor to be appointed President of the
Yankees and has hosted numerous parades and pep rallies for the Yankees
around City Hall at an expense of tens of millions of dollars to the NYC
taxpayers. Could there be something more to these deals than just
enthusiasm
for baseball?
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- 8. Lying under oath. To become a Federal prosecutor in
N.Y. and later as Ronald Reagan s 3rd highest-ranking U.S. Justice
Department
official, Rudy Giuliani lied during his F.B.I. background checks when
asked if any relative or associate was a convicted felon or had organized
crime connections. Those lies were federal crimes. As revealed in 'Rudy!
An Investigative Biography' by Wayne Barrett, Giuliani's father was a
convicted hold-up man who served time in an upstate prison and was later
employed as an enforcer for a Mafia loan shark operation. When the book
was first released Giuliani denied and later admitted it was true.
According
to the book, a number of his other relatives were also in the Mafia
besides
the uncles who were firemen and police officers that he proudly refers
to in public speeches. The point is not that Giuliani is a bad guy because
his father was a mobster, but that he lied to the F.B.I. and to Congress
about it.
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- 9. Conflict of interest and corruption. Since the events
of 9/11reinvented Giuliani's reputation, most people including much of
the NY media have forgotten how many questionable instances of conflict
of interest and possible corruption there were involving the Giuliani
administration. Team Giuliani did a masterful job censoring the evidence,
intimidating the witnesses and otherwise keeping these from becoming full
scale scandals. Now that they are out of office investigators, political
opponents and reporters will inevitably be revisiting these issues, which
could lead to embarrassment and even possible criminal charges for Time
magazine's 'Person of the Year.'
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- Is Rudy just nostalgically holding on to his circle of
subservient yes men or is damage-control the primary task they are being
kept on to fulfill? With downtown NYC in ruins and toxically-polluted
by the WTC debris, midtown is set to again become the economic and
political
center of NYC. As the Giuliani gang moves their headquarters to midtown,
will political novice Michael Bloomberg and his City Hall staff really
be in charge or will Giuliani secretly rule the City from his new office
at #5 Times Square?
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- If Giuliani were preparing to run for President it might
seem appropriate to keep his aides on the payroll in preparation for
appointing
them to cabinet positions. At best though, Giuliani will only be running
for Vice President on the 2004 Bush ticket and even that depends on Dick
Cheney being unable to run due to his health. Vice Presidents don t
appoint
any cabinet positions.
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- Rudy Giuliani usually has two reasons for anything he
does. One is intended for public consumption to enhance his saintly image
and a second, hidden reason that is the real one. Keeping his organized
crime family together is both business and personal. You might say
Godfather
Rudy made them all an offer they couldn't refuse.
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- BLOOMBERG NEWS/NY Newsday January 3, 2002
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- "Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...will run his new
consulting firm out of a skyscraper opening this spring, business
associates
said. Giuliani Partners, which the former mayor created with Ernst &
Young this week, will move into the 38-story, 1.1 million-square-foot
building at 5 Times Square...scheduled to open in May. The partnership
agreement was signed "at about 12:15 a.m. on New Year's Eve"
- minutes after Giuliani left office...Under its July 1999 agreement with
city and state development agencies, Ernst & Young will receive $10
million in tax breaks and $5.5 million in electrical power
discounts."
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- Daily News 1/3/2002
- Thinking Cap for Rudy Plans own library and urban
institute
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- "The ex-mayor has filed incorporation papers with
the state creating the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc.,
the Daily News has learned. The privately funded center's first order
of business will be to create a Giuliani library, using thousands of
documents
from his eight years as mayor. Giuliani aides said the documents they
used would be copies, with the originals remaining the property of the
city...Giuliani aides said the voluminous documents from his two terms
in office were boxed at City Hall last week and sent to The Fortress,
a private high-security storage facility in Long Island City,
Queens...Idilio
Gracia-Peña, who was the city's archives director for 12 years,
said the City Charter lays out regulations and standards for how documents
with historical value must be handled. Documents with historical value
belong in the municipal archives," said Gracia-Peña.
"They
belong to the people of New York."
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- NY TIMES December 13, 2001
- Giuliani Plans Own Business With Top Aides in
Consulting
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- "Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani cast some light yesterday
on his plans for life after City Hall, saying that he was working to
establish
his own consulting business with some of his top lieutenants...Bruce J.
Teitelbaum, a political adviser who said that he would be joining the
new business with the mayor...Mr. Teitelbaum said that other figures in
the administration who were expected to join the company included Anthony
V. Carbonetti, the mayor's chief of staff; Dennison Young Jr., the counsel
to the mayor, and Michael D. Hess, the city's corporation counsel. He
said that others could join the company."
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- NY Times 5/1/2001
- Rent Board Chief Resigns With Attack on the Mayor
-
- "Facing ouster by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the
chairman of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board quit yesterday and
unleashed a scathing attack on the mayor. The departing chairman, Edward
S. Hochman, accused Mr. Giuliani of being "a control freak"
who "brow- beat" and "dictated to" the board, treating
its members like "messenger boys" and "puppets," all
to "advance his political career." Mr. Hochman also said the
mayor and his aides had "manipulated the numbers," "tried
to get around the law," "bastardized" the rent-setting
process
and turned it into "a charade...Last year was outrageous,
unconscionable,"
Mr. Hochman said. "The mayor's deputy chief of staff took us into
a back room and tried to browbeat us with: `the mayor wants this,' `the
mayor wants that,' `we don't care what your reports say, this is what we
want,' "For us to go through all this and have the mayor's office
attempt to dictate the outcome for political purposes is outrageous. The
pretense of having an objective process is out the window."
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- NY Times 12/11/98
- Arts Agency Loses Leader in a Struggle Over Power
-
- "The departing official, Reba White Williams, who
is the director of special projects at Alliance Capital Management, had
served on the commission since 1994. She and her husband, Dave Williams,
the chairman and chief executive of Alliance, have given tens of thousands
of dollars to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's election campaigns...Williams
said she regretted the fight. "I was so proud of being a part of
the Giuliani administration," she said. "I honestly thought that
Giuliani was using the law to make life better for everybody. The one
time I had a brush with it, though, I found out that it's not
true..."
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- "Press Mulling Suit Against Mayor" NY Law
Journal
2/3/99
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- "A lawsuit charging the Giuliani Administration
with violating the First Amendment for using police to interfere with the
press's ability to cover crime scenes and emergency situations may be
on the horizon.... Gabe Pressman made his views clear: the Giuliani
Administration
is more "heavy handed" and "authoritarian" than seven
prior administrations he has covered. "The press is treated in this
town as though it were in a police state. ...Paula Madison, an executive
at WNBC, said she had fielded a number of telephone calls from the Mayor
and his press office in which she had detected "a really concerted
effort to intimidate."
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- U.S. Official Finds No Repression in Haiti New York Times
4/3/1982
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- MIAMI (UPI) -- The third-ranking official of the Justice
Department says he is convinced that there is "no political
repression"
in Haiti. Associate Attorney General Rudolph W. Giuliani, testifying
Thursday
at a hearing of a class-action lawsuit seeking the release of 2,100
refugees
in Government detention camps, said that repression in Haiti "simply
does not exist now" and that refugees had nothing to fear from the
Government of Jean-Claude Duvalier. Mr. Giuliani said he visited Haiti
two weeks ago and met with several officials, including President
Duvalier.
"Political repression is not the major reason for leaving
Haiti,"
Mr. Giuliani said. He said he reached that conclusion after Mr. Duvalier
personally assured him that Haitians returning home from the United States
were not persecuted.
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- 8/31/2000 STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
-
- "Helicopters that city officials said would only
spray over "unpopulated areas" instead spewed their pesticide
cloud over surprised and frightened Islanders yesterday. Hundreds of
children
playing on football and baseball fields in Travis had to dodge the mist...
The helicopter flew by four times. I think the borough president needs
to get a call," said Kathleen Collins of West Brighton, who was
watching
her 8-year-old son, Michael, play. She said she sat in her car, cradling
her 1-month-old daughter, Kayla, during the dousing...Borough President
Guy V. Molinari said the Health Department "never asked us to notify
anyone." He said the notion of contacting every league is
"outrageous."
"We just don't have the resources and staff to do this," said
the borough president. "All we can do is take information from the
Health Department and relay it to the public."
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- NY TIMES 12/20/2001
- City Had Been Warned of Fuel Tank at 7 World Trade
Center
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- "Fire Department officials warned the city and the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1998 and 1999 that a giant
diesel fuel tank for the mayor's $13 million command bunker in 7 World
Trade Center, a 47-story high-rise that burned and collapsed on Sept.
11, posed a hazard and was not consistent with city fire codes. The
6,000-gallon
tank was positioned about 15 feet above the ground floor and near several
lobby elevators and was meant to fuel generators that would supply
electricity
to the 23rd-floor bunker in the event of a power failure. Although the
city made some design changes to address the concerns - moving a fuel
pipe that would have run from the tank up an elevator shaft, for example
- it left the tank in place. But the Fire Department repeatedly warned
that a tank in that position could spread fumes throughout the building
if it leaked, or, if it caught fire, could produce what one Fire
Department
memorandum called "disaster."
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- NY TIMES 12/25/2001
- Experts Urging Broader Inquiry in Towers' Fall
-
- "In calling for a new investigation, some structural
engineers have said that one serious mistake has already been made in
the chaotic aftermath of the collapses: the decision to rapidly recycle
the steel columns, beams and trusses that held up the buildings. That
may have cost investigators some of their most direct physical evidence
with which to try to piece together an answer. Officials in the mayor's
office declined to reply to written and oral requests for comment over
a three- day period about who decided to recycle the steel and the concern
that the decision might be handicapping the investigation...Interviews
with a handful of members of the team, which includes some of the nation's
most respected engineers, also uncovered complaints that they had at
various
times been shackled with bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them
from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster site and requesting
crucial information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire
departments..."This is almost the dream team of engineers in the
country
working on this, and our hands are tied," said one team member who
asked not to be identified. Members have been threatened with dismissal
for speaking to the press...Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer, an associate
professor
in the fire protection engineering department at the University of
Maryland,
said he believed the decision could ultimately compromise any
investigation
of the collapses. "I find the speed with which potentially important
evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling," Dr. Mowrer
said. "
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- NY Post 8/28/2000
- COPS TO TESTIFY THAT QUOTAS FUEL ARRESTS
-
- "Four cops are expected to offer shocking testimony
this week that they were pressured by NYPD bosses to meet quotas. The
testimony should buttress what cops have claimed for years - that they
have been forced to provide certain numbers of arrests and summonses or
face retribution, such as the denial of vacation requests or a change
in shifts.
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-
- NY POST 6/11/98
-
- "A Queens precinct commander says he will punish
cops who don't make enough arrests by denying them days off, even in an
emergency, The Post has learned...Although the Police Department denies
there are arrest quotas in any of the precincts, the memo proves that
cops who don't bring in enough bad guys face repercussions. "The
pressure from the department to meet these numbers has surpassed the
pressure
that the officer encounters while on patrol," said Patrolmen's
Benevolent
Association official Daniel Tirelli. "Unfortunately, these pressures
are not just in the 110th Precinct, they're in all precincts throughout
the city."
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- NY Times 8/23/99
- Dismissed Before Reaching Court, Flawed Arrests Rise
in New York
-
- "Though crime in the city has ebbed to historic
lows, the New York City police arrested more people than ever last year.
The inevitable result, courthouse lawyers and some former prosecutors
say, is a surge in the number of flawed arrests. More and more of those
arrested...were jailed and released without ever having been formally
charged with a crime. Last year, prosecutors tossed out 18,000 of the
345,000 arrests made in the city even before a judge reviewed the charges,
more than double the number of four years before. The rate of cases
rejected
by prosecutors grew last year by 41 percent in the Bronx and 23 percent
in Manhattan. ...All told, more than 140,000 of the 350,000 cases disposed
of in court last year ended in a dismissal, a 60 percent increase in
dismissals
over 1993.
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- NYTIMES 9/30/98
- Judge Fines City $19,800 for Ignoring Orders
-
- "A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ruled
Tuesday that officials of the New York City Police and Correction
Departments
had shown such "utter disregard and apparent disdain" for his
orders in defending a civil rights suit that he ordered the city to pay
$19,800 in sanctions. Charging that he had seen a pattern in such cases
in which New York City Police and Correction Department officials treated
court orders with contempt, the judge, John S. Martin Jr., threatened
even stiffer penalties if the city did not change its approach. "You
don't tell the Federal Court to go to hell," Judge Martin said. In
court papers, [Corporation Counsel] Hess apologized for the delays in the
case before Judge Martin... This was far from the first time that these
agencies had manifested a cavalier attitude with respect to their
obligation
to comply with discovery requests," Judge Martin said. The judge
said he had directed the Corporation Counsel's office to obtain official
explanations from police and correction officials. But he criticized their
responses as insufficient and said they "made no attempt to
comply"
with his order.
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- NY Times 12/22/98
- Court Tells Giuliani to Release Budget Data
-
- "A state judge has ruled that Mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani
must provide more information to a public agency that scrutinizes the city
budget, saying that his efforts to withhold facts and figures from the
agency were illegal.
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-
- 8/25/98 Village Voice
- "Porn Free"
-
- "The Giuliani administration has granted a record
$666.7 million in tax abatements, the lion's share of which went to
businesses
locating in Times Square."
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-
- Newsday 10/8/98
- Mayor Defends Deal on Intrepid
-
- "As he continued to accuse City Council leaders
of fiscal waywardness, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani yesterday defended his
decision
to forgive $594,000 in back rent...owed by one of his top campaign
contributors...Zachary
Fisher, a real estate magnate who is the museum's chairman and chief
benefactor.
Fisher donated generously to Giuliani's past two bids for
mayor."
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- NY Times 11/24/98
- City Union Chief Concedes Vote Fraud
-
- "Hill's admission came four days after it was
revealed
that prosecutors were investigating allegations of vote fraud, tainting
what was widely considered as Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's most important
labor relations victory. The two-year pay freeze helped Giuliani balance
the city's budget. And Giuliani used the District Council 37 contract,
which covers social workers, engineers, data processors, clerks and dozens
of other categories, as a lever to pressure firefighters, sanitation
workers
and other unionized workers to accept similar two-year pay
freezes".
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-
- NY Times 11/29/98
-
- "Mr. Giuliani once made a reputation chasing the
kinds of crooks and scoundrels that control District Council 37. Now he
eagerly climbs into bed with them. The contract ratified by the fraudulent
vote set the pattern for agreements with other municipal unions and helped
Mr. Giuliani balance the city's budget. And District Council 37 endorsed
Mr. Giuliani for re-election in 1997."
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-
- NY Times 12/7/98
- Union Dissidents Describe Links to Organized Crime
-
- "Dissident officials of District Council 37 have
told Federal investigators of death threats, kickbacks and other
longstanding
organized-crime influence in some locals of the city's largest municipal
union, which has been battered for weeks by revelations of voting fraud,
embezzlement and racketeering."
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- NY Times 11/28/98
- New York's City Hall, Once Open to All, Takes Cover
Behind
Barriers
-
- "Although City Hall "could be an attractive
target," Mr. Schiliro [NYC FBI director] said, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation had "no specific information that City Hall is a
target at the present time." Mr. Siegel said the barricading of City
Hall reflected the Mayor's view that "he's the epicenter of the world,
that terrorists are plotting to bomb City Hall."
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- Daily News 5/12/2000
- Donna Sticks to Her Guns Insists Rudy, aide had
affair
-
- "Donna Hanover [Giuliani's current wife] made it
clear yesterday that she believes the relationship her husband had with
a staff member was intimate. A spokeswoman for Hanover, Joannie
Danielides,
said there is no ambiguity in Hanover's mind about the nature of the
relationship
between Mayor Giuliani and Cristyne Lategano, his former communications
director....A press aide during Giuliani's successful 1993 campaign for
mayor, Lategano rose quickly through the ranks of the Giuliani
administration,
almost doubling her $77,000 salary in the nearly six years she was at
City Hall..."Everyone suspected it," said one former City Hall
staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It was a bizarre
amount of time they spent together...The speculation about an affair flared
anew when Lategano left City Hall for her current $150,000-a-year post
as president of the city-funded Convention and Visitors Bureau, a post
for which she had no experience. "She got forced down our
throats,"
said one source with knowledge of the selection process at the bureau.
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- NY Observer 1/31/2000
- Right-Wing Southerner Is Rudy's Secret Weapon in Senate
Campaign
-
- "The Giuliani campaign has rented at least a dozen
lists from a Virginia-based company called Response Unlimited...a look
at the lists shows that the Giuliani campaign has stockpiled lists of
potential donors who have supported groups and causes that seem to be
at odds with the Mayor s image as a moderate Republican who favors gay
rights, immigrant rights and abortion rights...Richard Viguerie, the
controversial
right-wing direct-mail magnate, was enlisted by Giuliani operatives to
arrange for the list rental...A leading right-wing warrior, he has worked
for Jesse Helms, Oliver North, George Wallace and Patrick Buchanan....His
marketing strategies helped launch the conservative revolution in the
early 1960 s, when he did mass mailings for Presidential candidate Barry
Goldwater. He raised cash for Wallace in the early 1970 s, and helped
organize Jerry Falwell s Moral Majority in the 1980 s. He threw his
direct-mail
empire behind Mr. North, an insurgent candidate for Senate in Virginia,
in 1994...the Giuliani campaign has [also] rented a list of 6,000 names
from English Language Advocates, a group that drafted a controversial
initiative to make Arizona an English-only state, the group s development
director, Phillips Hinch, told The Observer. The Mayor s campaign also
has enlisted other right-leaning list companies. According to campaign
finance records, the campaign hired the Virginia-based RST Marketing,
which is raising money for Gary Bauer...And the campaign has paid for
the services of Pinnacle List Company, which offers...names of those who
have donated to "U.S. Border Control," a group whose Web site
warns darkly of "the ethnic cleansing of European
Americans."
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- Daily News 11/22/98
- Yanks' $3M 'Study' Needs Examination
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- "Last month, in pitch darkness, the mayor gave
George
Steinbrenner $3 million to do "site planning" for his business,
the Yankee baseball company...The latest $3 million was voted by Mayor
Giuliani's Economic Development Corp. on Oct. 7...No announcement was
made afterward...The deputy mayor in charge of economic development
collected
$900,000 in severance payments from his old job last year while working
in City Hall. His old job? He was a big honcho with Major League Baseball.
He continued for six months as a consultant to baseball, with a private
hotline on his City Hall desk that rang directly from the Major League
offices".
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- NY Times 9/9/2001
- STADIUMS Giuliani Races to Help Yankees and Mets; Others
Hope for Delay
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- "Ever since he took office in 1994, Mayor Giuliani,
who has already built the two most expensive minor league parks, at a
cost of more than $130 million, has enthusiastically supported the teams'
efforts to build new stadiums.
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- NY TIMES 12/29/2001
- Giuliani Presents Deal on Stadiums
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- "Trying to seal an 11th-hour deal on one of his
most cherished projects, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that
he had entered into tentative deals with the New York Yankees and the New
York Mets to build stadiums for a combined $1.6 billion in the backyards
of the teams' current ballparks."
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- Daily News 7/8/2000
- Giuliani Killed Tell-All Report on Life: Book
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- "A secret report prepared for Mayor Giuliani's 1993
campaign concluded the "raucous social life" he carried on during
his first marriage posed a potential threat to his candidacy, and he
became
so unnerved by the study he ordered it destroyed, a new book
discloses...In
examining the mayor's statements, the never-before revealed report titled
The Rudolph W. Giuliani Vulnerability Study prepared for Giuliani For
New York found "numerous inconsistencies and questionable
circumstances
about how long [Giuliani and his first wife] were married...Excerpts from
the book released earlier this week revealed Giuliani's father, uncle
and cousin had links to organized crime, and that his father had once
served time for a 1934 stickup. The book says that despite extensive
interviews
and background checks for Giuliani's government service, no information
about his family's criminal past surfaced."
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- NY Post 1/29/2000
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- "On Jan. 3, the city's Convention and Visitors
Bureau
announced that Giuliani would be featured in an upstate ad campaign to
promote winter tourism. Cristyne Lategano, the mayor's former
communications
director and the president of the visitors bureau, insisted the ads
weren't
intended to promote Giuliani's Senate campaign in important upstate voting
districts. Besides, she told reporters, only a "very small
portion"
of ad money came from the city treasury. It turns out that $200,000 of
the $350,000 radio buy is being paid by taxpayers.
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- Daily News 2/2/2000
- Union Howls as City OKs Private Ambulance Biz
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- "For the first time, the city is allowing a
for-profit
ambulance company to use the city's 911 emergency response system...The
decision to use MetroCare, which is nonunion, has set off a firestorm
of protest by the city's emergency medical technicians' union, which has
charged that using for-profit ambulance crews for emergencies could
endanger
patients' lives."Farming out Fire Department work to a company whose
first obligation is making a profit is disgusting, and it is bad
medicine,"
said Robert Ungar, counsel to Local 2507, which represents 2,300 emergency
medical technicians.
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- 2/12/2000 NY Post
- Rudy Campaign Donor Got Ambulance Pact
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- "MAYOR Giuliani attended a Senate-campaign
fund-raiser
at the Brooklyn headquarters of an ambulance company that later became
the first private service to join the city's 911 system....Campaign
records
show Zakheim and his wife, Suzanne, each contributed $5,000 to the mayor's
political action committee. Four other Metrocare executives chipped in
an additional $5,500...Patrick Bahnken, president of EMS Local 2507, said
the contributions and Zakheim's role as co-chair of a Giuliani fund-raiser
in November should raise a red flag because the administration had
previously
opposed allowing for-profit ambulances into the 911 system. "How did
a bad idea become a good idea?" asked Bahnken. "The only thing
I can think of is Mr. Zakheim's contributions."
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- NY Times 7/21/98
- Judge Says Ban on Big Rallies at City Hall is
Unconstitutional
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- "A Federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday that
a city policy banning large groups from holding news conferences or
rallies
on the steps of City Hall was unconstitutional, saying that the Mayor
used it selectively to allow groups like the Young Republicans to gather
there, while blocking an AIDS advocacy group that had been critical of
him."
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- N.Y. Times 11/8/98
- U.S. Inquiry Asks if City Deprives Poor
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- Federal officials say New York City's new welfare
policies
may improperly deprive thousands of poor people of access to food and
medical
assistance, and they have begun reviewing the public assistance programs
to determine whether they violate Federal law.
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- Daily News 5/11/2000
- Rudy: City Told Malathion Not Cancer-Causing
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- "The city never would have used malathion to battle
disease-carrying mosquitoes last summer if there was even a hint the
pesticide
might cause cancer, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. ...For years, critics
have warned that malathion is a neurotoxic chemical that can attack the
central nervous system and cause respiratory, gastrointestinal and
neurological
problems...spraying in Tampa left 200 people hospitalized with dizziness,
nausea and flu-like symptoms."
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- NY Post 5/13/2000
- TRIPS TO L.I. LOVE NEST COST TAXPAYERS 3G A DAY
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- "Mayor Giuliani's sojourns to the Southampton condo
of his "very good friend" may have cost taxpayers at least
$3,000
a day for his NYPD security detail and for overnight motel lodging, The
Post has learned.
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- NY Times 7/21/98
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- "For the second time in two years, The New York
Post has received large tax breaks and other subsidies from city and state
officials after threatening to move some of its operations out of New
York City. Officials have granted the newspaper $24.4 million in incentives
to build a new printing plant on 17 acres at a rail yard in the South
Bronx."
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