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There’s more news out today about skeletons that are likely to haunt Rudy Giuliani during his presidential campaign, though Bernard Kerik is the one most likely to be literally connected to a skeleton. The New York Times is reporting that Giuliani “remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.” Last summer Kerik plead guilty to receiving improper gifts from a mob-owned construction company. Giuliani was briefed on Kerik’s possible connections to the mob, but promoted him to police commissioner anyway.
Giuliani supported Kerik’s nomination to the cabinet level position as head of the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik withdrew his name after it was revealed that he had employed an undocumented worker as his nanny, though Kerik’s mob ties were looming as an issue that would have disqualified him.
Giuliani was briefed on Kerik’s mob ties while his mayoral administration was vetting him to be New York’s police commissioner. Ironically Giuliani’s consulting company, “provides background checks for companies as part of its services.” I’m not sure if this is more ironic than Giuliani Partners offering cyber security consulting while his campaign website was launched with major security holes with regards to protecting user information.
I really hope Giuliani Partners doesn’t also offer radio system and emergency response headquarters placement consulting services. I don’t think I could take that much painful irony.
In an unrelated story Giuliani has also said that his third wife, Judith Nathan, “would be permitted to attend cabinet meetings and advise him on federal policy.”
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4 Responses to “More Rudy News (Now With Extra Irony)”
[…] I think Ambinder is right to slow down fears of Giuliani “fly[ing] off a cliff.” Giuliani’s appeal does not begin with his stances on social issues. Conservative voters know this about him (though not as much now as they will in six months) and aren’t forming their opinions of him on cultural issues. His reputation as a sound crisis manager with confidence on national security is. But the Bernard Kerik problem is one which undermines his national security credibility; he blew it by endorsing someone who he knew had ethical problems and ties to the mafia. […]
I think Rudy is toast. His reputation as a find crisis manager will not save him from being laid bare by Thompson supporters over his liberal social attitudes.
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yea, truly haunted by skeletons……so much so after non stop negative coverage and smears from the liberal media over the last 2 months, his lead in polls has dwindles to a tiny, itty bitty, 16 points. sure is haunted….
Left by matt
March 30, 2007 at 6:24pm