The Ultimate Answer
Posted on | November 29, 2007
Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani responded to yesterday’s news of his bogus expense reports with his usual blather:
Rudy Giuliani dismissed a report Wednesday that he expensed the cost of his security detail to obscure city offices for trips to a Long Island resort as the then-mayor began an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan.
“First of all, it’s not true,” he said during a GOP debate hours after the story broke. “I had 24-hour security for the eight years that I was mayor. They followed me everyplace I went. It was because there were, you know, threats, threats that I don’t generally talk about. Some have become public recently; most of them haven’t.
You guessed it! It was 9/11 made him do it—those darned terrorists! At any rate, I think we are guaranteed weeks of entertainment as he attempts to deflect and deny.
Neither he nor his aides, however, offered an explanation for why the tens of thousands of dollars in costs, which they say were routine expenses for protection for the mayor, were billed to city offices like the Office for People With Disabilities.
Tony Carbonetti, Giuliani’s mayoral chief of staff and his top campaign political adviser, said he’s asked Joe Lhota, a former city budget director, ex-deputy mayor and a Giuliani campaign adviser, to explain how such accounting practices could have occurred and why security expenses were not billed to the police department…
American Express bills and travel documents…detail hotel, gas and other travel expenses for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail during 11 trips over three summers of visits to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan had a condominium.
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