Rudy had one of the longest lucky streaks in human history. He won the NYC Mayor’s race because he was the Federal prosecutor who took down Donald Manes, a big Queens County Democratic boss. He got plenty of press coverage, but the truth was that the actual story was broken by Jimmy Breslin. Crime rates were already going down across the country when he became NY mayor, his boasts of beign a great crime fighter don’t hold up. Then he became ‘America’s Mayor.’ He made it to third on three errors but thought he hit a triple.
“One of Giuliani’s earliest associations was with Semyon ‘Sam’ Kislin, who donated money to both his 1993 and 1997 campaigns [for mayor] and was appointed by Giuliani to serve on the New York City Mayor’s Council of Economic Advisors,” Olga Lautman, an investigative reporter who spent three years tracking ties between the Russian mafia and Trump’s associates, told Newsweek.
Rudy had one of the longest lucky streaks in human history. He won the NYC Mayor’s race because he was the Federal prosecutor who took down Donald Manes, a big Queens County Democratic boss. He got plenty of press coverage, but the truth was that the actual story was broken by Jimmy Breslin. Crime rates were already going down across the country when he became NY mayor, his boasts of beign a great crime fighter don’t hold up. Then he became ‘America’s Mayor.’ He made it to third on three errors but thought he hit a triple.
That’s a great line.
Was that takedown really luck? or something else. I seem to recall something about the Russian Mafia coming into their own sometime after this.
https://www.newsweek.com/giuliani-mysterious-ties-russia-former-soviet-union-decades-1215349
E.g.,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Manes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin
The Donald Manes story was huge at the time.