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markpkessinger

(8,401 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:09 AM Feb 2015

Giuliani: "He wasn't brought up like I was . . ."

That much is true: President Obama wasn't raised by a violent, ne'er-do-well-thug-turned-mob-enforcer. Nor, thankfully, were most of us. From a July 4, 2000 article by Wayne Barrett in the Village Voice (back when the Voice still had some journalistic teeth):

[font size=5]Thug Life[/font]
[font size=3]The Shocking Secret History of Harold Giuliani, the Mayor’s Ex-Convict Dad[/font]
By Wayne Barrett, Jul 4, 2000

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On April 12, (1934) in the case of People v. Harold Giuliani indicted as Joseph Starrett, Giuliani was charged with four felonies: robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree, grand larceny in the second degree, and criminally receiving stolen property.

The crime occurred on April 2, 1934, at 12:05 p.m. in the unlit first-floor corridor of a 10-family residential building at 130 East 96th Street in Manhattan. Shortly before noon, Harold Giuliani and an accomplice positioned themselves in shadowy recesses near the stairwell. Within 10 or 15 minutes Harold Hall, a milkman for Borden's Farms, entered the building to make routine payment collections. As he began to make his way up the stairs, Giuliani emerged from the shadows and, according to the indictment, pressed the muzzle of a pistol against Hall's stomach. "You know what it is," he reportedly said. He forced the man into a nook behind the stairwell, where his counterpart was waiting. The other man plunged his hand into Hall's pants pocket and fished out $128.82 in cash.

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Giuliani grabbed Hall's pants and yanked them down to his ankles. He told Hall to sit down. He grabbed the man's hands, pulled them behind his back and bound them with cord. Squatting, his back to the wall, Giuliani leaned over his victim and began tying his feet together. Before he was finished, a police officer, Edward Schmitt, burst in the front door of the building.

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And then there's this:

One afternoon, a man reluctantly entered the bar to apologize to Harold, saying that he didn't have the money—could he have just one more week? Frowning, Harold reached under the bar, out of sight, and gripped his baseball bat. As the man before him continued pleading for an extension, Harold swung the bat, cracking him flat across the face, sending him back a few feet. "Don't be late again," Harold said, according to an eyewitness.

That was the gist of Harold's job: enforce Leo's law through threats or violence. He shoved people against walls, broke legs, smashed kneecaps, crunched noses. He gave nearby Kings County Hospital a lot of business.
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Giuliani: "He wasn't brought up like I was . . ." (Original Post) markpkessinger Feb 2015 OP
Ghouliani is a philandering piece of shit who screams Lint Head Feb 2015 #1
Nope, the President Of the USA was brought up by a loving mother and loving Grandparents and Cha Feb 2015 #2
shut the fuck up Giuiliani you racist piece of shit Skittles Feb 2015 #3

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
1. Ghouliani is a philandering piece of shit who screams
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:29 AM
Feb 2015

9/11 when he has sex. He thinks he is a hero just because he was in the same city that George Bush and his criminal family allowed terrorist to attack by ignoring CIA warnings. The day he goes to hell will be a great day for this country.

Cha

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2. Nope, the President Of the USA was brought up by a loving mother and loving Grandparents and
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:14 AM
Feb 2015

whose grandfather actually served during WWII..



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While Guiliani dodged Vietnam war..PBO was raised by grandparents who served during of WWII..
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