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FYI.
Not only did Rudy Guilinia make his chauffeur head of the NY City police departmet, and eventually Ol' Bernie Kerik was up for Director of Homeland Security but:
At the Housing Development Corp., Giuliani named as commissioner Russell Harding, the son of political ally and ex-Liberal Party boss Ray Harding. The young commissioner was placed in charge of the city's agency that finances complex housing deals, despite possessing no college degree, no experience in housing and no background in finance.
Harding was eventually convicted of stealing more than $400,000 from the agency - he didn't even know enough about the job to cover his tracks. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison for the embezzlement and for possessing child pornography.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Giuliani's Parks and Recreation commissioner, Henry Stern, ran an agency where "supervisory lines of authority are almost completely segregated by race and color" and whites were promoted ahead of more-qualified nonwhites.
A class action lawsuit against the department, settled in 2005, placed the agency's hiring and promotion policies under federal supervision for three years.
Over in Giuliani's Fire Department, a flap ensued when The News reported the Cadet Corps - a program intended to create more diversity in the 91% white agency - included the sons of high-ranking FDNY brass. Giuliani defended the inclusion of these privileged sons in the program.
Just an update on the person who MAY be responsible for appointing the new batch of Federal agency heads.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opi...ypal_plan_must_go.html
Not only did Rudy Guilinia make his chauffeur head of the NY City police departmet, and eventually Ol' Bernie Kerik was up for Director of Homeland Security but:
At the Housing Development Corp., Giuliani named as commissioner Russell Harding, the son of political ally and ex-Liberal Party boss Ray Harding. The young commissioner was placed in charge of the city's agency that finances complex housing deals, despite possessing no college degree, no experience in housing and no background in finance.
Harding was eventually convicted of stealing more than $400,000 from the agency - he didn't even know enough about the job to cover his tracks. He was sentenced to more than five years in prison for the embezzlement and for possessing child pornography.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Giuliani's Parks and Recreation commissioner, Henry Stern, ran an agency where "supervisory lines of authority are almost completely segregated by race and color" and whites were promoted ahead of more-qualified nonwhites.
A class action lawsuit against the department, settled in 2005, placed the agency's hiring and promotion policies under federal supervision for three years.
Over in Giuliani's Fire Department, a flap ensued when The News reported the Cadet Corps - a program intended to create more diversity in the 91% white agency - included the sons of high-ranking FDNY brass. Giuliani defended the inclusion of these privileged sons in the program.
Just an update on the person who MAY be responsible for appointing the new batch of Federal agency heads.
Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opi...ypal_plan_must_go.html
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