Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service November 29, 2007 3:18 PM
Richard Esposito Reports:
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani.
New York papers reported in 2000 that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani's third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time.
Right on the heels of yesterday's Politico story about the weird billing of his security detail, this story will reinforce the image of Giuliani using public expenses to facilitate his love affair. I'd like to hear his explanation of why his lover needed a security detail. This sort of drip drip has to be death to Rudy's campaign. I thought all this sort of thing would come out if he got the nomination and the Democrats started releasing their oppo files. While I like Rudy for many reasons, I've always been a bit trepidatious about him because I worried about the sort of things that would come out about his professional conduct. I don't care so much that he was having an affair while his marriage was falling apart. I don't mind that he's pro-choice, lived with a gay couple, or some of the other issues that conservatives are supposed to be holding against him. But this stuff about possibly misusing public funds and public employees for his private life is just a bit too much for me. I'll give hime the benefit of the doubt that there is some innocent explanation for all this, but it just doesn't look good.
Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service November 29, 2007 3:18 PM
Richard Esposito Reports:
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani.
New York papers reported in 2000 that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani's third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time.
Right on the heels of yesterday's Politico story about the weird billing of his security detail, this story will reinforce the image of Giuliani using public expenses to facilitate his love affair. I'd like to hear his explanation of why his lover needed a security detail. This sort of drip drip has to be death to Rudy's campaign. I thought all this sort of thing would come out if he got the nomination and the Democrats started releasing their oppo files. While I like Rudy for many reasons, I've always been a bit trepidatious about him because I worried about the sort of things that would come out about his professional conduct. I don't care so much that he was having an affair while his marriage was falling apart. I don't mind that he's pro-choice, lived with a gay couple, or some of the other issues that conservatives are supposed to be holding against him. But this stuff about possibly misusing public funds and public employees for his private life is just a bit too much for me. I'll give hime the benefit of the doubt that there is some innocent explanation for all this, but it just doesn't look good.
