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Rudy "End Earmarks" Giuliani's Law Firm Lobbied for Earmarks
It's hard to believe, but presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani, the law partner and businessman, seem to be at odds:
Giuliani, the Republican presidential front-runner, last month pledged to ``get rid of'' so-called earmarks, which cost taxpayers about $13 billion this year, saying his party should promote ``fiscal discipline.'' Just weeks later, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP won $3 million worth of projects for its clients in defense-spending legislation....In all, Bracewell & Giuliani sought federal earmarks for 14 companies this year, 11 of which hired the firm after Giuliani joined in March 2005, Senate records show. Giuliani, 63, isn't registered as a lobbyist. The firm paid him $1.2 million last year, according to his personal financial-disclosure form.
The defense-spending legislation approved this month by Congress contained funding for three of those clients, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based advocacy group that opposes special projects that lawmakers insert in spending bills without public debate.
Now, this is Giuliani's law firm, not his consultancy Giuliani Partners. But it's yet another example of why Giuliani has a motivation to keep his business side quiet.
Comments (3)
Mike wrote on November 26, 2007 3:13 PM: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.
Nun other wrote on November 26, 2007 9:01 PM: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.
He will be soooooo easy for Hillary to beat. Yahoo!!!!!!
Web Hubbell wrote on November 27, 2007 9:09 PM:Well Mike the commentator is an idiot, with his spurious claim that Rudy received kickbacks as Mayor. But at least he's not as delusional as Nun other, who thinks that Hillary isn't going down. (Why, Nun other, because she's got her forearm shoved up CNN's alimentary canal so far that she makes Wolf's lips move?)
These two slapstick buffoons make even Paul Kiel look good for his having had the smarts to excise the first and last lines of this plagiarized article about Rudy's not lobbying for a massive global firm within which some people not known to Rudy do register as paid lobbyists and, by God, do lobby and do get paid!
It was clever of Paul to excise the bookends of this article for which he refuses to give attribution, because those two sentences contained textbook libel; namely, the truth-claim that Rudy himself lobbied for earmarks. Not good that, especially since Rudy is a former prosecutor and private citizen now, and freer than ever in his life to sue the shit out of the author of this tortious defamation, which materially damages the man's reputation and personal werewithal.
Had Paul posted the full text rather than merely stealing most of it, he and this blog would be liable for that form of libelous defamation defined in law as "republication of slander". The legal test, of course, is truth demonstrable, and since the allegation is demonstrably untrue, Rudy is entitled to compensatory and--and here's the best part--punitive damages.
Mike's claim about grafting is simple libel straight up. The court would probably let him twist and squirm through a trial, and then slap him with a token fine, since, fortunately for him, any jury would see in a squint that this blog is an adolescent exercise in playing dress up, as though its staff and readers knew from shit about politics or anything else.
Now in my case, I'm protected from adverse court findings simply because, as the pioneering corporate attorney Abraham Lincoln put it, "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
Mike and Nun being beyond repair, I'll direct my final bit of advice to you, Paul. Next time you think you might want to post something lifted from the big boys' locker room, attribute it, and give your research muffins a chance to show that it is true or untrue.
In this case it would have taken a trained monkey about 15 minutes at the keyboard.
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