Politico Editor: It Looks Like Someone Helped Rudy 'Cover His Tracks' During Affair

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Politico editor: It looks like someone helped Rudy 'cover his tracks' during affair
Jason Rhyne
Published: Thursday November 29, 2007

During Wednesday evening's Republican debate, GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani flatly denied a new report that as mayor of New York he had obscured security expenses during the beginning of an extra-marital affair -- but his explanation leaves a lot to be desired, according to the editor-in-chief of the publication that broke the story.

Appearing on the CBS Early Show, Politico's John Harris was asked if Giuliani's answer about the potential scandal was "enough to make it go away."

"Well, for people who are interested in the details of the story that Ben Smith broke on Politico yesterday, no it's not," he said. "Because the question wasn't whether he had security...the question is why was he hiding security expenses for his relationship, at that time still an extra-marital affair with Judith Nathan, why was he hiding them in obscure city agencies?"

First reported on on Wednesday, the original Politico story cites documents acquired through a New York Freedom of Information Law proving Giuliani "billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses." The story also asserts that "mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants."

In Wednesday evening's debate, Giuliani called the story "not true" only hours after it was first published on Politico's website. "I had 24-hour security for the eight years that I was mayor. They followed me everyplace I went," he added. "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..." Last month, the New York Post reported that New York mafia leaders had been close to "sanctioning a hit" on Giuliani in the 1980's, when he was working as a federal prosecutor targeting the mob. Many mafia experts, however, doubt that a serious threat against the mayor's life ever existed.

But Harris said that it appeared the bills were designed to help obfuscate the mayor's activities.

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Nope, according to the Post, front page news is that some guy in South Carolina thinks Barak Obama might be a secret Muslim. My mistake. I have a very odd definition of "news," apparently. Leave it to the pros, I say. They know what America needs to hear about.