This isn't turning into an exclusively anti-Giuliani web log, but it's easy & fun to pick on him. Incredibly easy, because he's always up to something suspicious or sleazy or arrogant or you name it.Latest? From the WaPo:
Ten months into his presidential bid, Rudolph W. Giuliani continues to work part time at the security consulting firm he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his pursuit of the Republican nomination.
Giuliani's continuing involvement with a firm catering to corporate clients makes him unique among Republican contenders. It also complicates the task of separating his firm's assets from his campaign spending.
Last year, the ex-mayor raked in $4 million from his security consulting firm & $11 million from speech & book fees. (Did he "write" a book? We hadn't noticed.) 9/11 certainly "changed everything" for some people, didn't it?
One concern among ethics experts is that Giuliani's continuing affiliation with the firm might create a public perception that clients with business that could be affected by a Giuliani presidency might hire the firm to curry favor.
The firm's past clients had many connections to government.
They include:
• Purdue Pharma, which resolved a lengthy Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into the security of its OxyContin painkiller with only a fine, with the Giuliani firm's help.
• A confessed drug smuggler who hired Giuliani to help ensure that his company could do security consulting business with the federal government in the post-Sept. 11 period.
• The horse-racing industry, which hired Giuliani's firm to review the security of its betting systems after a wagering scandal shook public confidence.
• BioOne, a company that can do biological cleanups, such as its cleaning of a Florida media building after the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• Energy giant Entergy, which hired Giuliani's firm to help tighten its security.
Gov't. of , by & for the corporationspeople, just as the first Republican president said at Gettysburg, has not perished from the earth.
We might also point out that Barack Obama is the only "taken seriously by the media" candidate who isn't a multi-millionaire, though he seems to be getting there.
2 comments:
For somebody who has such money, why is he wearing such a declasse $20 Casio watch in the 1980s photo? Sheesh, get this boy a Rolex, at least.
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From The Editor:
In the '80s he was a U. S. Attorney or whatever. Had to wait for 9/11 before he could profit from the deaths of thousands (many of whom might not have died had Rudy seen to it that the police & fire radios were compatible & functioned in tall buildings). Had Bush & Cheney not been in hiding September 11th, 2001, Guiliani might not be the undeserved big deal he is today.
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