Rudy Guiliani in Dirty Deal for Yankee World Series Rings
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on May 8th, 2007 5:22 pm by HL
The Yankees’ Clean-Up Man
The Village Voice
Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.
Excerpt:
It is only now, however, as Giuliani campaigns for President, that we are beginning to learn that this relationship went even deeper. Giuliani has been seen on the campaign trail wearing a World Series ring, a valuable prize we never knew he had. Indeed, the Yankees have told the Voice that he has four rings, one for every world championship the Yankees won while he was mayor. Voice calls to other cities whose teams won the Series in the past decade have determined that Giuliani is the only mayor with a ring, much less four. If it sounds innocent, wait for the price tag. These are certainly no Canal Street cubic zirconia knockoffs.
With Giuliani’s name inscribed in the 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000 diamond-and-gold rings, memorabilia and baseball experts say they are collectively worth a minimum of $200,000. The Yankees say that Giuliani did pay for his rings—but only $16,000, and years after he had left office. Anyone paying for the rings is as unusual as a mayor getting one, since neither the Yankees nor any other recent champion have sold rings to virtually anyone. The meager payment, however, is less than half of the replacement value of the rings, and that’s a fraction of the market price, especially with the added value of Giuliani’s name.
What’s more troubling is that Giuliani’s receipt of the rings may be a serious breach of the law, and one that could still be prosecuted. New York officials are barred from taking a gift of greater than $50 value from anyone doing business with the city, and under Giuliani, that statute was enforced aggressively against others. His administration forced a fire department chief, for example, to retire, forfeit $93,105 in salary, and pay a $6,000 fine for taking Broadway tickets to two shows and a free week in a ski condo from a city vendor. The city’s Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) has applied the gift rule to discounts as well, unless the cheaper rate “is available generally to all government employees.” When a buildings department deputy commissioner was indicted in 2000 for taking Mets and Rangers tickets, as well as a family trip to Florida, from a vendor, an outraged Giuliani denounced his conduct as “reprehensible,” particularly “at high levels in city agencies,” and said that such officials had to be “singled out” and “used as examples.”
HL’s Take
George M. Steinbrenner lll is a convicted Felon. He was convicted of giving illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon in the early ’70s. Is he now doing the same thing for Rudy? This is a long article about some of the crooked stuff Guiliani was involved in when he was Mayor of New York. This guy could out-bush Bush if he is elected. Lets make sure that doesn’t happen.
May 8th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Name one Mayor of New York City who has turned that cesspool around from all things negative to more things positive than any other metropolitan city anywhere close to it in size and demographic strata? Only Texas A&M jokes outrank the average New Yorker in their aloofness, blatant inconsideration and selfishness to a population of caring, considerate and selfliss people. Someone had to lead that charge and the man you hate was the one who orchestrated it. Your ignorance of youth doesn’t permit you to remember the young female school teacher who was robbed, raped and eventually murdered by multiple assailants while some 30 of the victims neighbors watches from their windows. BTW, not a single one of them picked up a phone to call the police or open their window to yell at her assailants. When a local newspaper reporter asked the neighbors why the standard reply, typical New Yorker of then, said, “I didn’t want to get involved.” So along comes a man who wants to get involved and lead the nation’s largest city out of the morass it allowed itself to sink into and you scream for him NOT to be elected? For your long-term sake you’d better hope he or someone like him gets elected or your freedoms are going to die just like that school teacher did on the sidewalk of New York of old.
So, just who do YOU think can do an equal or better job and has the credentials to back him/herself up? George Soros?
May 9th, 2007 at 5:12 am
The Incident you refer to was the Kitty Genovese murder and it happened in 1964. That was about 25 years before Rudy hit the scene. So one murder 43 years ago in a city of 8 Million means that NY was a bad place? You don’t know what the hell you are talking about. The Genovese Murder was an example of a group psychology where no one does anything because everyone figures someone else already called the cops, and could happen anywhere. So how long you lived in New York? I lived there for many years and I can tell you that New Yorkers are the best people in the world, and the reputation for being rude is most unfounded.
You ever heard of Amadou Diallo, the guy who was shot 41 times by Rudys Police after he went for his wallet when the cops demanded his ID. Rudy didn’t have any problem with that. He wanted to “clean up” New York so he had his cops running roughshod over citizens. Then the was Abner Louima who was arrested and raped with a toilet plunger by the cops. Is that the kind of America you want to live in. New York City was a much better place before Rudy. So please spare me with your historical nonsense and utter ridiculousness.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:36 am
HL if rudy was a dem. would you have posted this seg?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Yes I would, you can ask John Kerry about that. Find the article where I met Kerry on this site and check it out.