Giuliani was always a fraud. Just ask the FDNY
Successful politicians, with designs on history, perform a kind of pas de deux with reporters, their invisible dance partners who provide them the uplift in public perception that over years shapes the arc of their reputation.
There is a mutual benefit for these waltzing couples, with supportive reporters guaranteed access to the legends they have spun into existence.
Nobody on the planet knows this choreography better than former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who as the hard-charging U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, made many journalists’ careers by leaking to them tips on where and when suspects were going to be taken into custody.
Through the perp walk this “no finger-prints” manipulation of the media made the army of print and broadcast journalists tools for the prosecution, even as it undermined the defendant’s right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.....(snip)
In a detailed after-action report published in 1994 by the FDNY, the inability of firefighters and their officers to communicate over their analog radios that day was flagged as a vital issue that needed to be addressed with some urgency.
According to a report issued by the New York City Comptroller the next month, the Giuliani administration had “willfully” violated “city contracting rules…. endangering firefighters in a reckless bid to buy a new type of hand-held radio that it later had to pull from service,” according to the New York Times.
https://www.salon.com/2019/10/13/giuliani-was-always-a-fraud-just-ask-the-fdny/
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