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Las Vegas Mixx

(259 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 05:20 AM Feb 2015

Harold Giuliani, mob enforcer, source of son Rudy's family values?

Rudy Giuliani: Obama "wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up" ...

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/yes-lets-talk-about-upbringing-rudy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/giulianis-smear-wasnt-racist-what-was-it.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253
http://debatez.com/forum/discussion/825/obama-was-not-brought-up-the-way-i-was-son-of-convicted-felon-mafia-enforcer-harold-giuliani

The book, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, by Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett, contains a string of claims about Gotham’s controversial mayor and his family.

According to Barrett, Harold Giuliani served a one-and-a-half year term in Sing Sing prison after robbing a milkman at gunpoint in 1934, a decade before his son, the mayor-to-be, was born.

Rudy also alleges that Harold Giuliani served as the “muscle” for a loan-sharking outfit, claiming that he “broke legs, smashed kneecaps [and] crunched noses” in the 1950s -- even taking part in a gunfight on a Brooklyn street in the 1960s.


The original basis for Giuliani’s comments was Obama’s allegedly unusual upbringing. “He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country,” alleged the former mayor. As Wayne Barrett points out, Giuliani’s father was a mob enforcer, and he and his five brothers all avoided military service during World War II. What about this upbringing in any way suggests it conveyed some deeper patriotism than Obama’s?
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Las Vegas Mixx

(259 posts)
2. Rudy nominated old pal Bernard Kerik to become Homeland Security Chief (before he went to prison)
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 01:52 PM
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