GEEEEEEZUS! Read this!! "Giuliani's Clients Could Pose Conflict"

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Congress, the Pentagon, Energy and Education departments and the Environmental Protection Agency were among the offices most frequently contacted by Bracewell & Giuliani!!!


Giuliani's Clients Could Pose Conflict
By SHARON THEIMER and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers

1 hour ago

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WASHINGTON - As a partner in a law and lobbying firm, Rudy Giuliani has profited from his firm's work representing corporate clients before virtually every Cabinet department, exposing himself to a wide range of potential ethical entanglements.

If Giuliani were elected president, his administration would be on the receiving end of regulatory requests, contract bids and policy proposals by the same clients of his Houston firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, that have contributed toward his personal net worth of millions of dollars.

Although the Republican presidential candidate has so far declined to identify all the companies with which Bracewell and his other firms have done business over the past five years, The Associated Press identified more than 175 as part of an expansive review of lobbying records, court filings and securities reports.

Giuliani's law and lobbying clients have included Saudi Arabia, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and chewing tobacco maker UST Inc.<snip>

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Bracewell & Giuliani alone has thousands of clients but will name only a few dozen. Since Giuliani became a partner in spring 2005, it has reported lobbying on various issues with the White House, the vice president's office, Congress and every Cabinet agency except the Department of Veterans Affairs, the AP review found.<snip>

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