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"Rudy's Misrepresentin'..."
The current NYPD police chief is adding to Rudy Giuliani's corruption woes, distancing himself, and calling out the former Mayor. He asserted in Newsday that Rudy's story does not add up:
Giuliani, a two-term mayor serving from 1994 through 2001, has faced questions this week over whether he tried to hide certain expenses during his second term as mayor. The inquiries came after a report surfaced Wednesday on the Web site Politico.com detailing how travel and security costs were shifted to obscure city agencies from 1999 to 2001, during a time Giuliani was reportedly involved in an affair with Judith Nathan, now his third wife.
Giuliani and his aides on Thursday said there was nothing improper about how nearly $600,000 in travel bills run up by his security detail that was not immediately registered as an expense incurred by the mayor's office. Giuliani's defense is that the NYPD was slow to pay its bills, forcing his office to bill the other agencies.
Kelly said on Friday he could not comment on those expenses because he was not police commissioner during the years in question.
But a high-ranking police official said the department has quietly looked into the matter over the last few days and found no evidence the NYPD was slow to pay the mayor's office. Typically, said the official, who asked his name not be used, the mayor's office would make any arrangements necessary whenever Giuliani traveled out of town with the detail. After the trip, the mayor's office would bill the NYPD, which in turn would ask the comptroller's office to pay the mayor's office out of the NYPD budget.
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