Word: mayorally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WESTERN WONDERS Spurs, a stagecoach and a Gatling gun were among the 800 items recently auctioned off in Dallas by Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital. Over the past decade its mayor, Stephen Reed, used public money to buy 3,800 objects that he hoped to eventually display in a museum honoring the city's role in supplying the Old West...
WHOA, THERE Harrisburg is now in severe debt, and city-council members are hoping the items--which Reed purchased with some $7 million in city funds without the council's approval--will wrangle in the proceeds necessary to make up for the mayor's exuberant spending...
Bernard Kerik, a mid-level New York City corrections official, was at home late one night in January 1995 when the telephone rang. It was his boss, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who wanted to talk. Kerik had been Giuliani's driver and bodyguard during much of the mayoral campaign, and he offered to meet the mayor the next morning. "No," said Giuliani. "Now." It was 10:30, but Kerik trooped over to Gracie Mansion and joined the mayor in a poorly lit parlor, where they shared a bottle of red wine that had been a gift from Nelson Mandela...
...Kerik the news: He would announce the next day that he was appointing Kerik deputy corrections commissioner. The promotion would make Kerik the No. 2 man at the agency overseeing the city's prisons and lockups. Kerik balked, worried about his qualifications, but Giuliani insisted. "Just do this," the mayor said. "Do what I'm telling you." Relenting, Kerik agreed, but as he tells the story in his autobiography, what happened next was a little creepy. "In this dark sitting room, one by one, the mayor's closest staff members came forward and kissed me. I know the mayor...
...been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking bribes from businessmen with possible Mob ties and could face up to 20 years in prison and fines that could top several million dollars. Giuliani faces a different test: Could his reputation as a crime-busting prosecutor and mayor be unraveled by a handpicked police chief facing criminal conspiracy charges? Federal prosecutors unsealed the Kerik indictment at a moment when Giuliani, while leading in the national Republican nomination polls, still trails Mitt Romney in most of the early-primary states. If the Kerik case goes to trial, it will probably...