Way back in June when I started this blog one of my first posts was about how Giuliani removed his administration's eight years of records from City Hall and privately "organized" them. No other mayor of New York had done this, assuming that the archives were public property. Rudy returned the boxes of material after they had been "catalogued." The city quickly passed a law forbidding any future removals of that sort.
This story is finally getting more attention:
He not only left office with thousands of boxes of documents Giuliani didn’t want to go public, but he also quietly secured the materials of his deputy mayors, his chief of staff, his travel office and his official residence. While in office, Giuliani sought to limit public access to information on such mundane matters as working water fountains in city parks and the city’s recycling program.
This is now put in context with other reports of Rudy's secret behavior, like paying for his mistress with the city's money:
The burst of press attention focused a bright light on something that had been partly known in the NYC press but had been the subject of little scrutiny during this campaign: the fact that as Mayor Rudy expended tens or perhaps hundreds of thousand of taxpayer dollars on his mistress while his wife and kids were still ensconced at the mayor’s official residence, Gracie Mansion.It wasn’t just the Shag trips to the Hamptons, that was the least of it. It was NYPD security detail he had assigned to Nathan before their affair was even known — on the basis to fairly obviously bogus ‘threats’ she face. The personal NYPD-expensed valet service she, her friends and family enjoyed thanks to Rudy. Even the NYPD-dog walking.
