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To: Bill who wrote (11747)	11/30/2007 12:37:46 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

As I said...why were ANY hours pawned off on the budgets of completely unrelated, minor departments? Why was this practice begun by somebody in Rudy's administration? Nobody yet has said why this was done, as the actual dollars were not in question....only their placement. Was it a simple accounting error? Was it a clever bookkeeping practice to make the actual security budget for guarding his honor smaller regardless of the legitimacy of the total expense? It appears so far that not very much of the total security cost was parceled out. If so, maybe this is no big thing.

To: Bill who wrote (11747)	11/30/2007 12:56:28 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"If it turns out that the hours incurred during his trysts were treated like any other hours from an expense standpoint, would you agree there was no pattern of obfuscation?" Sorry, Counselor...your question is leading. The hours for the "trysts" were NOT treated like "any other hours". We already know that the vast majority of the security detail hours were charged to budgets relating to the direct protection of the mayor. Some of the "tryst" hours were parceled off to minor budgets. We don't yet know if other, non-tryst hours were also parceled out, but they could have been. So since your question is flawed (any other hours weren't treated like the tryst hours - 98% or so were budgeted straight to the security budget according to the latest Policico article), I can't answer you. And, yes, I have stopped beating my wife. <vbg>