Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips

By: Ben Smith
Nov 28, 2007 02:47 PM EST
Updated: November 28, 2007 09:43 PM EST

Giuliani and Nathan were seeing each other in 2001, the period when the bills were incurred.

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.â€