More trouble for Rudy

It would be different if the crazed left-wing bloggers were making up stuff on Rudy Giuliani but there is no need. Rudy has his own dirt and no matter how tightly he tries to shut the door on this closet of secrets thing just keep falling out. (I discuss Rudy's ties to terror here.) On Wednesday Politico.com, a right leaning web site, stated that Giuliani had some odd billing practices for his security detail when he was mayor of New York. One would figure that the Police Department would have been in charge of all of his security and therefore would be billed. Nope. He billed...someone billed obscure NY agencies which in turn billed the Police Department. Why? Who knows? Rudy clearly hasn't answered the question.

This best news is that Bernard (I'm indicted) Kerik has come to Rudy rescue. You can't make this stuff up!

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From NYT:

Rudolph W. Giuliani last night called a Web site’s account of his spending a “political hit job” as his campaign struggled to explain why hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses for his mayoral security detail were billed to obscure city offices instead of the Police Department.

Earlier yesterday, a senior aide to Mr. Giuliani defended the handling of the expenses, which were incurred from 1999 to 2001, calling them completely proper. The aide contended that the billing followed longstanding procedures in which legitimate travel expenses for the police detectives were spread among the budgets of various mayoral offices.

Each agency, said the aide, Joseph J. Lhota, a former deputy mayor whom Mr. Giuliani has asked to look into the matter, was later reimbursed by the Police Department. The practice, he said, was put in place to ensure timely payment. (more...)

Countdown with Keith Olbermann video.

Judith Regan Says News Corp. Official Wanted her to Lie to Protect Giuliani

Hat Tip: Countdown with Keith Olbermann

From NYTimes.com

Ex-Publisher Says News Corp. Official Wanted Her to Lie to Protect Giuliani
By RUSS BUETTNER
Published: November 13, 2007

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004.

The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post.

Ms. Regan makes the charge at the start of a 70-page filing that seeks $100 million in damages for what she says was a campaign to smear and discredit her by her bosses at HarperCollins and its parent company, the News Corporation, after her project to publish a book with O.J. Simpson was abandoned amid a storm of protest.

In the civil complaint filed in state court in Manhattan, Ms. Regan says the company has long sought to promote Mr. Giuliani’s ambitions. But the lawsuit does not elaborate on that charge, or identify the executive who she alleged pressured her to mislead investigators, nor does it offer details or evidence to back up her claim.

Ms. Regan had an affair with Mr. Kerik, who is married, beginning in the spring of 2001, when her imprint, Regan Books, began work on his memoir, “The Lost Son.” In December 2004, after the relationship had ended and shortly after Mr. Kerik’s homeland security nomination fell apart, newspapers reported that the two had carried on the affair at an apartment near Ground Zero that had been donated as a respite for rescue and recovery workers.

Mr. Kerik, who in 2004 said he withdrew his nomination because of problems with his hiring of a nanny, was indicted last week on federal tax fraud and other charges.

“Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “In fact, a senior executive in the News Corporation organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani’s presidential campaign. This executive advised Regan to lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.”

Officials of the News Corporation were asked in a telephone call for comment on the lawsuit, but had yet to issue a statement.

One of Ms. Regan’s lawyers, Brian C. Kerr of the firm Dreier L.L.P., said she possesses evidence to support her claim that she was advised to lie to federal investigators who were vetting Mr. Kerik. But Mr. Kerr declined to discuss the nature of the evidence.

“We’re fully confident that the evidence will show that Judith Regan was the victim of a vicious smear campaign engineered by News Corp. and HarperCollins,” Mr. Kerr said.

The News Corporation controls a vast array of media outlets worldwide, including Twentieth Century Fox, the New York Post and the Fox News Channel, where Ms. Regan once hosted a talk show.

I don't watch Faux News, so I'll take the word of those that do that it's been carrying the water for Rudy for awhile now.

So, now, they're trying to get folks to lie for Rudy.

Um, ok.

I'll remind folks again...

This is the man who had his WHORE in the House with his WIFE AND CHILDREN.

His PUBLICLY FUNDED HOUSE.

This is the man who has ON HIS PAYROLL, A PRIEST accused of MOLESTING CHILDREN.

And, now this.

Doesn't surprise me in the least.

Watching Dan Abrams - he said that in July, in the ' Gossip' columns, said that Ms. Regan has TAPES. If she does.....GOOD! She knew the types of folk she was dealing with....SNAKES ALL.

UPDATE: Smoking Gun has a copy of the lawsuit HERE

Giuliani Partner Bernard Kerik Indicted

Now that Giuliani insider Bernard Kerik has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury, I wonder if the National Corporate media will go after Rudy the way it has gone after John Kerry, Barack Obama, John Edwards and so many others. Kerik was the man that Giuliani recommended to become the Head of Homeland Security when the agency was in it infancy. An embarrassing revelation regarding an undocumented domestic worker who worked in the Kerik Household, and other questions regarding his honesty, led to the withdrawal of his nomination.

This whole episode calls into question (again) Giuliani's judgement. It also begs the question just how close Giuliani was and continues to be, to Bernard Kerik. The two men were the best of friends and were business partners during the time when much of Kerik's criminality was taking place. Was Giuliani involved in any of Keriks shady deals? The mainstream corporate media doesn't even want to go there, because they are wimps. Whatever happened to good investigative journalists who take the time to dig for the story behind the story? There are only a few left... Brian Ross, Bill Moyers, and a small handful of others come to mind. And even they only seem to act only after the bandwagon is full.

It will be interesting to find out who Kerik may implicate (if anyone) in his own defense.