Sherry Chandler

Obscure City Agencies?

As you’ve no doubt heard, evidence has emerged that Rudy Giuiliani billed “osbcure agencies” of the New York City government for security expenses for his trips to Northampton, presumably to visit Judith Nathan, who lived there and with whom he was having an extramarital affair at the time.

Interesting to me, though, just what those “obscure” agencies were that got stuck with the bill:

Broadening the inquiry, the comptroller wrote, auditors found similar expenses at a range of other unlikely agencies: $10,054 billed to the Office for People With Disabilities and $29,757 to the Procurement Policy Board.

The next year, yet another obscure department, the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, was billed around $400,000 for travel.

The Assigned Council Office provides defense attorneys for the indigent.

To quote Josh Marshall:

I’d heard a lot that Rudy’d done a lot to screw poor folks caught up in the criminal justice system but this puts the matter in a whole new light.

Giuiliani’s people say it was just “accounting” — as in juggling the books, I guess — and that all was put right at year’s end. That, of course, excuses everything.

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