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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- AMEN!NEWSDAY Dark Clouds Over Giuliani By Dan Janison Staff Writer February 5, 2004 More than a half-dozen former aides, friends and close allies of Rudolph Giuliani have been charged in the past 18 months with malfeasance - a development that could come back to haunt him if he runs for office again. "It would be a concern in any candidate's campaign," said Councilman Bill de Blasio (D-Brooklyn), who's long been involved in Democratic campaigns, including Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 Senate race. "And it would be of particular concern for a guy who made his reputation as a prosecutor and as a quote-unquote reformer." A spokeswoman for the former mayor's consulting firm Giuliani Partners declined to comment on the cluster of cases, which have accumulated as Giuliani is said to be up for a prominent role at the GOP convention at Madison Square Garden this summer. Some observers were certain that none of the cases - most criminal and most involving fiscal wrongdoing - hurt the ex-mayor, whose national profile soared after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "People remember you for the fact that you stood with them in a time of need," said Tom Ognibene, the former councilman from Queens planning for a Republican run for mayor. "People don't get distracted by these minor events." One prosecution was capped Friday in Manhattan when Louis Carbonetti, 56, a longtime Giuliani friend and former commissioner of the city's Community Assistance Unit, pleaded guilty to perjury. Carbonetti is expected to be sentenced to 5 years probation and a $17,500 penalty. He admitted lying to city investigators in January 2003 about his business relationship with a company that received a contract from a business improvement district he'd headed in Brooklyn. Carbonetti's son Anthony was chief of staff for Giuliani at City Hall and now serves as a key political contact at Giuliani Partners. Other cases in which Giuliani associates have been implicated include: Pending federal charges against financial contributor Steve Zakheim. In 2000, the Giuliani administration granted Zakheim's ambulance company, MetroCare, a contract to answer 911 calls, a first for a for-profit company. Zakheim, 49, is contesting allegations of using "straw donors" to make $32,000 in illegal contributions to the campaigns of Giuliani and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). Pending federal conspiracy and fraud charges against Russell Harding, whom Giuliani appointed to head the city's Housing Development Corp. Harding faces charges that he stole more than $250,000 from the agency. He also faces child-pornography charges. Democratic consultant Richard Schraeder said he believes this case - but not the rest - could likely become a negative for a Giuliani run. Pending sentencing of Fred Patrick, a former deputy police commissioner, who pleaded guilty in the diversion of more than $112,000 from a jail charity to pay for phone calls from inmates around the state. On Dec. 19, Patrick, 38, admitted to two counts of mail fraud between 1991 and 1997. Officials said phone sex was involved. Pending federal charges against former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Ed Norris, 43, who pleaded not guilty Dec. 11 to charges of misusing police funds while Baltimore commissioner. Norris, promoted to his New York position by Giuliani's police commissioner Howard Safir, allegedly spent the money on liquor, lavish dinners and extramarital affairs. Pending state charges against Anthony Serra, 42, a former three-star chief in the Correction Department who rose quickly during the Giuliani administration. He worked in Giuliani's 1989, 1993 and 1997 mayoral campaigns. Serra was indicted last year on hundreds of grand-larceny, false-instrument and other counts in the alleged use of on-duty jail personnel to work on construction at his home. Msgr. Alan Placa, a decades-long friend of Giuliani, has never been criminally charged. He joined Giuliani Partners, however, after he was forced out of a position with the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. Last year, a Suffolk County grand jury report identified him, though not by name, as having protected pedophiles in the clergy. He has vehemently denied those claims, and Giuliani has vigorously defended his character. Copyright � 2004, Newsday, Inc. | www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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