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Giuliani: Everything I Won't Disclose is Aboveboard

Rudy Giuliani has nothing to hide about his business dealings. Or, rather, he wants everyone to know that if the press finds what he's hiding, everyone will agree that everything's been "totally legal, totally ethical."

Every time reporters press Giuliani on his work with Giuliani Partners, his booming consultancy (Guiliani took home $4.1 million last year and his stake is worth anywhere from $5 million to $25 million), he's got the same answer: I'm not telling, but you should ask the firm. Then the reporter diligently calls over to Giuliani Partners to get the brush-off from its spokeswoman. That's what happened to The Wall Street Journal when the paper had questions about the firm's contract with Qatar. The Chicago Tribune got the same treatment when it asked about the firm's work for a developer's casino resort in Singapore.

When the AP asked him in an interview earlier this month if he'd disclose his client list, he responded that the business was "totally legal, totally ethical," "very ethical and law-abiding" and that there's "nothing for me to explain about it. We've acted honorably, decently." It was unfair to even ask, he said, employing the deft logic that since no one has found anything wrong, people shouldn't even ask the question:

"What's the standard? Giuliani Partners and Bracewell Giuliani are firms. Nobody has ever accused them of doing anything wrong. So all of the sudden, you are going to start jumping to conclusions about them when there are absolutely no suggestion they have done anything wrong?"

But those nasty journalists just keep at it. And though Giuliani won't discuss his clients, he says reporters have done a fine job in doing his disclosure for him. From the Tribune:

Questioned during a campaign appearance Tuesday in Chicago, Giuliani said that, "all of Giuliani Partners' clients, maybe with one or two exceptions, I'm not even sure that's right, are public. ... At least the ones that I was familiar with."

Confidentiality agreements prohibit disclosure of an unspecified number of clients, Giuliani said, "but somehow I think you -- you meaning the press in general -- have been successful in discovering. I'd have to check if it's every client. But just about every single client of Giuliani Partners. You'll have to check with them."

A spokeswoman for Giuliani Partners said that "a number of client relationships ... must remain confidential, as per the specific request of those clients."

She did not respond to questions about whether Giuliani was asking those clients to waive privacy in light of his presidential bid.

So.... just one or two more. The work of helping Rudy Giuliani prove how totally ethical, totally honest, honorable, decent, and law-abiding he is continues!


Comments (28)

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Oooh those pesky journalists, they're bad, bad people for causing Rudy so much trouble. For shame! Looks like we're going to have to be even naughtier!

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Rudy Guliani was too busy before 9-11 protecting the interests of Kerik who is now under federal indictment.He knew about his mafia connections and kickbacks.
He was protecting his friend - a pedophile preist.
He got kickbacks from the company that made defective radios that firemen had to use.
He was seeing another women while married.
No wonder he did not protect Americans before 9-11.
And murder rates went up by over 3000 in 2001 alone while Guliani was the mayor of new york.

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You aren't fooling me, Rudy.

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It truly is amazing how many millions this disgusting buffoon has milked out of the tragedy of 9/11. On 9/10, he would have been collecting unemployment, his political career was a disaster and he was thought of universally as a complete moron. On 9/12, he gets millions just for opening his pie-hole and is the front runner for the republican nomination. What a f*cked up country we live in. I hope this guy rots in hell.

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Henry Kissinger declined to head a 9/11 inquiry rather than reveal his clients. Predictably, Kissinger chose the money and the cronies over public service, but even he realized he had to choose one or the other.

Giuliani, in his overwhelming desire to both be president and make insane amounts of money, wants to have it both ways. Knowing how he operates, this is not exactly surprising, but if the media lets him get away with it, it'll be another big step towards oligarchy.

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What'd I say? Nothing to see here. Just move along, now...

Why do I get the feeling, that with one good tug the whole tapestry will unravel?

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Rudy's connections with gambling ought to be one more strike against him with the religious folks but if it came down to a race between him and Hillary, they'd vote for him anyway. Pat told them to.

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It truly is amazing how many millions this disgusting buffoon has milked out of the tragedy of 9/11.

Rudy is the 9/11 whoreâ„¢.

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The conflicts run wide and deep. How about the fact that the Giuliani Partner in charge of deflecting the press from any connection to Kerik is Mark Mukasey, stepson of new Attorney General?

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You think he might not really care about winning the election? You know, just enjoying the gravy train in the run-up.

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If everything is aboveboard, then the guy is sinking ship. For a ship to be stable, you need ballast. So if it's all on deck, this ship is going to seriously list and everything's going overboard.

I can't wait for the closing credits.

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ww wrote on November 21, 2007 6:16 PM:

Giuliani, in his overwhelming desire to both be president and make insane amounts of money, wants to have it both ways. Knowing how he operates, this is not exactly surprising, but if the media lets him get away with it, it'll be another big step towards oligarchy.

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Only problem being is that Rudy has no right to such confidentiality. Pretty much all his financial dealings must be made public as a presidential candidate.

Between this and Kerik, you got to figure his campaign is on its last legs.

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Why does this remind me of Big Jule from "Guys and Dolls"? He brings his own dice to the crap game but they have no spots on them. When the others complain he says "they wore off but don't worry - I remember where they all were."

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Who cares about Rudy's shady deals. We have to know what Hillary said to Bill on the Healthcare Task in 1993 and we want her schedule.

We have a leading contender to the White House running a business whose clients are kept in the dark and nobody seems to care, Tim Russert will come up with a 5 yr old letter to trap Hillary on some documents that not even in her possession.

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Seriously, this is a lobbying and PR firm, right?

And yet they are going to lobby for their clients and spread good PR without revealing the fact that they are working for their clients??

What services exactly are they providing if they can't mention the fact of who they are representing even to those they are representing them to?

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Benito Giuliani, il duce, representing the fascist wing of the Republican party.

Party platform:

Militarism
Imperialism
Nepotism
Cronyism
Prohibitonism
Totalitarism
Corporatism
Fisical deficitism
Police statism
Corruptism
Evangelicalism
Expansionism


"A small man in search of a balcony"
~Jimmy Breslin on Benito Giuliani

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methinks there is a story for the guy/gal who gets the client list.

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Rudy's arrogance and self-deception grows hourly.

If 9/11 had not occurred he would have left disasters in the city's tax base (due to his giveaways of outrageous benefits and tax relief to all sorts of businesses ranging from the financial industry to Michael Eisner), a largely decayed economy in all four outer boroughs, a series of one-off sell-offs of city assets for far less than either their value to NYC citizens or their financial worth and an implosion in NYC education.

His endless temper tantrum over the city not building a new Yankee Stadium on his lap was identical to the one he had over the willful selection of the WTC as a site for the city's Emergency Management Center. That alone really needs to be explored by the press. (Compare that to Bloomberg's shrugging off his wayward attempt to please his brother-in-alms Woody Johnson's Jet Stadium fiasco: he just walked away.)

There is also the issue of how easily blackmailed a man like Rudy can be and quite possibly has been.

Only the surface of Rudy's excesses have been published. He has a long, long history of pay for play BDSM activity in which he is a submissive.

That is not rare for people with power who seek even more power. One of his dommes showed me her address book from the period in which Rudy was her client (which was between his runs against Dinkins): it was full of major media figures, well-known names from the state and federal judiciary and seemingly endless law firm partners.

But Rudy's excesses only grew in that area.

And it becomes a little apparent that Rudy -- who was naked in his affairs and in his announcement of his divorce -- was hiding how he met the current Mrs. Giuliani.

Among the employees of the cigar bar where the Giulianis so innocently met -- and no one remembers seeing Rudy in ANY bar ever during his mayoralty -- has any memory of either party being there.

However, the local BDSM scene is more than familiar with Judith Nathan Giuliani.

More to follow one day...

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Phew, well I feel better.

Il Rudy told me not to worry, not to think, not to ask questions, not to question Him. What else od I need to know? Even that worrisome little moment when he shat on The Constitution so he could stay in Office a few more months seems like such a bitchy little bit of Liberal Whining Bullshit to me now.

Thanks Rudy, for clearing up all my concerns about you!

Say, will you at least make sure the trains run on time?

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Dr. Zoom--Very funny post.

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Gotta say that Rudy's latest pronouncement doesn't inspire 100% confidence. Maybe only 9/11ths confidence. But that's enough, right?

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Rudy's Countdown:

4 World Series rings from tne New York Yankees--valuable gifts for which he paid little or nothing and for which he owes taxes.

3 Marriage rings - he can only wear one at a time on the campaign trail to show he is a family man, but they really symbolize what a "three-ring" circus his life has been.

2 Children who can't stand him.

1 Bernard Kerik or the yet to be disclosed clientele of Giuliani Partners. Take your pick. Which one will sink his ship?

Mission aborted. Proving in the end that Rudy really does support late-term abortions.

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studyrudy typed:

"Only the surface of Rudy's excesses have been published. He has a long, long history of pay for play BDSM activity in which he is a submissive."

"However, the local BDSM scene is more than familiar with Judith Nathan Giuliani."

What do Benito's and Judith's sexual preferences have to do with running for president?

Benito should be judged on his record as US AG, Mayor of NYC and his political platform for the Republican nod for president in 2008.

Sex is just that sex. As long as all are consenting adults and no one is hurt "game on".

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But Rudy...this is exactly the type of firm dealing with overseas clients that the FISA Protect America act was suppose to wiretap.

Besides, you gave up any rights to privacy when you began running for president and let's face it...you've surrounded yourself with questionable people who are slowly being indicted. Makes us wonder what else you are involved in...unknown to you of course...just like Bernie's corrupt practices. After all you do have a known child molester working for you there, who was only able to avoid prosecution because of time constraints or he would be in jail. Many of us were born at night Rudy...but it wasn't last night.

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Who was John Gurino, the man shot and killed in a deli in Boca Raton?

Giuliani Firm Anthrax Work Ends in a Feud
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 29, 2005


An anthrax decontamination project in Florida that Mayor Giuliani showcased as one of his highest-profile ventures after joining the private sector has fizzled out at cost of millions of dollars to his firm.

The project was an effort of Bio-One Solutions LLC, a joint venture between the former mayor's consulting firm, Giuliani Partners LLC, and Sabre Technical Services LLC, an Albany-based environmental company. Bio-One Solutions had planned to place its offices in a Boca Raton, Fla., building and to have Mr. Giuliani be one of the first to cross the threshold after the firm eliminated the deadly spores from the complex, which once housed the offices of a company that published supermarket tabloids.

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Paul,
You said "So.... just one or two more."

But what did Rudy say?

"all of Giuliani Partners' clients, maybe with one or two exceptions, ^I'm not even sure that's right,^ are public."

Which means maybe it's more than one or two.
Masterful dissembling.

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This guy is Cheney 2.0 in every conceivable way. He shouldn't be allowed within 1000 feet of the White House. The fact that he is a major candidate is truly scary. In any other decade he would be considered a far-right fringe candidate.

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Whats that I smell.....toast burning.....no it's Rudi......he's toast.

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