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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:23 AM
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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared before a Grand July in
connection to the Kerik corruption probe. Kerik is being investigated for allegedly improperly taking expensive favors.
District Attorney Johnson is questioning Kerik receiving 250,000 is home renovations. What did Rudy know and why was Rudy silent? Bet Rudy's pissed that this story was leaked. He testified in April not a word was said about it.
> NEW YORK -- Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has testified under oath in the criminal investigation of Bernard Kerik, NewsChannel 4 has learned.

Giuliani went to the Bronx Criminal Courthouse in late April to testify as a witness before the grand jury probing whether Kerik accepted improper cash and gifts while serving as the former mayor's correction commissioner, sources told NewsChannel 4's Jonathan Dienst.
> The criminal investigation centers in part on allegations that Kerik received tens of thousands of dollars in free construction work on the Bronx apartment where he once lived. Investigators have said nearly $200,000 in work was done -- but Kerik allegedly paid just $17,000.



> Investigators also want to know if Kerik agreed to help the owners lobby for a city contract in exchange for the construction work. The owners of the company -- which has been investigated for possible ties to the mafia -- have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Kerik, too, denies the allegations.

more at link..

http://www.wnbc.com/news/9350763/detail.html













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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:25 AM
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1. and this fucker is one of the most popular politicians around ?
profiting off of 9/11 whore. and that bitch Coulter attacks the widows of 9/11 dead for wanting better security and hold people accountable. while this fucker is profiting off of it himself. some people are really fucked up.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:27 AM
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2. Giuliani is truly one of the biggest of the fucked up ones...
After Dimson, Giuliani was the one who "profitted" the most politically from 9/11.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:34 AM
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3. i'm not even sure if it would be after dimson
he might be the biggest one. at least people call out the Chimp . but nobody does Ghouliani. and the media still kisses his ass. he is always referred to as "the hero of 9/11". what a fucking joke that is. he is one of the Republicans i hate the most.

for anyone who wants the truth, read Jimmy Breslin's piece titled "Giuliani: Camerica Hog, not a Hero".

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:42 AM
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4. I have no argument with you about him.
A hypocritical opportunist of the nth degree. He was Democrat at one time, just like our current Mayor, Bloomberg..
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 04:21 AM
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5. I had no real respect for Giuliani in the first place, but after Abner
Edited on Mon Jun-12-06 04:22 AM by Old Crusoe
Louima, the Haitian immigrant sodomized with a kitchen broom in police custody during Giuliani's reign, any respect anyone had for Rudy ought to have been replaced by contempt and disgust.

I consider him one of the worst excuses for a public servant alive today. I hope he goes nowhere fast in the GOP nomination race.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 06:55 AM
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6. Not to mention his callous disregard of the deaths of Patrick Douresman
and Amadu Diallo. His attitude of "the police just doing their job" made these two victims of the System appear as though they assumed the risk of getting in the crosshairs of the police by living in the City and being black.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:26 AM
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7. Yes. I thought to include them, but then the list of appalling things
that took place under Giuliani got longer and longer.

There is a coarse, unchallenged, "I've got the power & you don't" feel to him that I inherently don't trust.

The idea of his being "America's mayor" is almost physically sickening.

I'm sorry he had his bout with cancer -- I don't wish that outcome on anybody -- but it wouldn't bother me at all if he were crushed at the polls early on.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:32 AM
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8. I love KERIK-Judith REGAN threads
and to anybody who says this thread is about GIULIANI, *not* KERIK-REGAN, I say: They're all the SAME BUNCH OF SC0UNDRELS. A rehash::

A couple of her men:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/152/

*********QUOTE********

.... Then Judith and Rupert found each other -- and ReganBooks was born. Not only did their commercial instincts mesh, but Judy's what's-the-world-ever-done-for-me politics were highly compatible with the Murdoch view.

And then the sex part. It's a one-woman show.

I have never heard anyone talk about sex the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone talk about their sexual partners the way Judy does. I have never heard anyone analyze individual motivations, the workings of the marketplace, and politics, too, in such precisely sexual terms. The other day, on her show, she kept interrupting her tempered guests on the subject of why women like Bill Clinton, and, voice rising, saying: "They want to have sex with him -- that's why they like him!"

Early in her career at Simon & Schuster, she published a book called The Rogue Warrior and fought tooth and nail for a full-face cover photo of the author. "Don't they understand?" she stormed to me. "Women will buy this because they want to fuck him!" She got the full face and a best-seller.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/newlow.htm (by DUer Gloria)

Regan looked straight into the camera and for almost 10 minutes, delivered a pseudo stream-of-consciousness poetry riff mocking Clinton. Referring to his sad boyhood, she mocked his loneliness, then proclaimed that he built himself up and called himself KING, because "I am rich and I can do what I want!" She likened him to the cast out Socks, and envisioned him an old man meeting up with Socks at 125th street, both holding tin cups. ....

It was incredibly vicious. What was especially appalling was how she took the most painful aspects of Bill's background--his truly grievous childhood--and twisted them, using them to mock him. If this wasn't the "politics of personal destruction" I don't know how else you could describe this horrific display. ....

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And I (the poster) will claim credit for insight. Back when KERIK's book for REGAN was debutting, she hosted him on her Faux interview show. His tale was of his missing mother, who inexplicably abandoned him as a tot. She never showed up for a custody hearing. The premise of the book was that this tough uber-male had this hole in his heart, thereby setting the pants on fire of tough wingnuts of either gender. As she probed him about the book, she and KERIK locked smouldering, HOT gazes. Once the mother-thing was done, she moved on to his heroics (which were what?) on 9-11. She asked WHERE HE WAS when the planes hit. Without missing an eye-lock, he said, "Stepping out of the shower." She swallowed and held a long breath. The image of nekkid KERRIK was plainly etched on the Faux camera lens during the LONG pause. He added, "In my office." Another LONG pause. He added, "After WORKING OUT." There was another swallow. I suspected BACK THEN that something was cooking between publisher and author, and it weren't spaghetti. Only 2 or 3 years later, when KERIK's many other past deeds floated to the surface like dead bodies did it become official that there was indeed WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE between the two, that the two of them alternated their HOT WINGNUT LOVE sessions with WORKING OUT together, that he had used NYPD to track down what happened to his mother, that he used NYPD to provide security for his personal WILD WINGNUT HOT LOVE, that the LOVENEST was a city-paid apartment near the WTC intended as a rest site for rescue and recovery workers. It was pure musk in the air. Why don't Shrub's handlers hire some of US for intelligence work?



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