Peruvians few days ago we saw with some surprise the presentation of the pull of Keiko Fujimori, the former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. Fujimori's supporters presented him as an expert in security, Giuliani tries to get political as much juice as possible to the fact that he was mayor of New York when the terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. Let's clarify some things, questions the Giuliani administration and yes there are many serious. Jo Marie Burt, a political scientist and professor at George Mason University, has written a post about the questions on the use of lethal force and authoritarian tendencies of Rudy Giuliani. These two items they should add the corruption scandals linked to his administration.
One of the scandals that have brought greater tail is that of the radios used by firefighters during the Giuliani administration. Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York from January 1, 1993 until December 31, 2001. At the time of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, firefighters experienced communication problems with the radios. However, Rudy Giuliani waited until early 2001 to replace the radios through a direct award of contract without competition, to Motorola for $ 14 million. The previous contract had been only $ 1.4 million, the tenth. The most worrying issue is that the new radios also failed to situations emergency and only two weeks after being distributed, were collected by the city. As a result, firefighters had to re-use the radios used 8 years ago, and it was these radios that were used during the emergency of 11 September 2001. A group of relatives of firefighters who died in the attack reported that these radios are directly responsible for more than 100 firefighters have not heard the order to leave one of the twin towers before they collapsed, and therefore are responsible for their deaths . The video report can be found here, is truly heartbreaking. Another video prepared by the International Association of Firefighters also claims Giuliani on this issue. The independent, nonprofit www.factcheck.org challenges the claim of the second video for the radios have been solely responsible for the deaths, but agreed with the complaint made about what happened to the radio in the years before the attacks of 2001, article about it here.
other Another controversial item is the Bernard B. Kerik. This character went from working as security for Giuliani in February 1994, First Deputy Commissioner of the Department in January 1995, Commissioner New York Department of Corrections in January 1998, Police Commissioner August 2000, a post he held until the end of the Giuliani administration. After serving as mayor, Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners LLC (the company is now engaged by Fujimori), Kerik served as Vice-President of the company until December 2004 and Chief Executive Officer of one of its subsidiaries during the same period. Kerik was nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security in December 2004 by George W. Bush, a process which was supported by Rudy Giuliani (even was prepared for interviews by the former mayor). His nomination only lasted a week, Kerik withdrew, saying he had discovered that his nanny was an illegal immigrant and, therefore, had not paid taxes for their recruitment. Months later discover the real reason.
Kerik is in prison serving a sentence of 4 years for tax fraud and lying to White House officials. This statement came after long research process of bribery, conspiracy and making false statements. All these cases were related to a corruption case. Kerik would have received about $ 165 000 in renovations from Interstate Industrial to lobby him to change the company while being part of the Giuliani administration. Interstate Industrial has been reported to have links with the mafia. One wonders how a character so close (Giuliani is godfather to Kerik's daughter) and he owes the dramatic progress in his career to Rudy Giuliani might have been involved in such an act of corruption without the knowledge of his mentor. The New York Times article detailing the case, noting that Giuliani was briefed on the relationship between Kerik and Interstate Industrial, and still appointed him Commissioner of Police of NY and supported his nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Fujimori brings Giuliani as advisor on public safety. It would be nice the former mayor set aside on its board incompetence, incompetence showed by placing the Emergency Command Center in NY at the World Trade Center, despite objections from the police department. The WTC had already been the subject of a terrorist attack in 1993. It was for this reason that NY did not have a proper command center on September 11, 2001. Here the note.
This latest scandal talks about the incompetence shown by Rudy Giuliani. The two cases are very clear macules resting on the figure of the former mayor on corruption. To them we must add the complaints related to excessive use of force lethal during its administration and authoritarian form of governance, issues that are spoken in "Swimming Upstream."
Fujimori, head of the dictatorship and corruption rampant in the 90s, presents him as a high quality pull. Among them are understood.
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