media ploy?? Ancient Rudy Assasination plot?

[fj45lvr]

Why is the media coming out with an ancient story of how the mafia barely voted to "spare" Rudy from being "whacked"???

Are we supposed to think that he was "tough on crime" or does the vote to spare him show that the underlords thought they could "deal" with him???

Seriously, this is headline news?? Rudy has zero Chance of getting the nomination.

[TooConservative]

His father was a mob enforcer, his uncle a minor gangster.

Don't go against the family, Fredo.

I don't care about the Mob or their quarrels with their boy Rudy.

[brandon]

I read this story earlier today and immediatly thought it was a planted story to make rudy look tough on crime.

[freelance]

He WAS tough on crime--selectively--when it suited him and advanced his career. If you look closely, you'll see a bevy of criminals in his inner circle.

His policy is use fatal force first, and ask questions later, unless he knows you.

[bbachtung]

All you need to know about Rudy as a prosecutor you can find in this (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5D8143EF931A15753C1A9659582 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all) NYT article from 1993.

Here is a pretty good summary:



Critics charged that Mr. Giuliani's deputies, largely undersupervised as he spread himself increasingly thin, came to adopt what The American Lawyer called a "macho rah-rah-let's-crush-'em-like-bugs-because-they're-probably-criminals mentality." The office's approach brought criticism from some Federal judges, including many Republican appointees. One, John Sprizzo, complained from the bench of prosecutorial overkill. 'A Lightning Rod'

Appellate courts came to subject some of Mr. Giuliani's convictions to searching scrutiny, and in several cases -- notably, those of executives of Princeton-Newport and GAF Corporation -- overturned them for errors that, some believe, they might have tolerated from someone else. "By making himself a lightning rod and making a big deal of his aggressiveness, Rudy lost the courts' confidence," said Gerald Lynch, a former prosecutor now at Columbia Law School. "The close calls tend to go with the Government, but the close calls did not go to Rudy."