- clearly, he impacted the mob in new york more than anyone else had, and was able to take out mob bosses who had been sitting there in place for a generation. - when people say there is no mafia and these organizations don t exist, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing. and i know what it does and what it can do. - there have been 80 death threats against mayor giuliani so far this year. - it is not unusual to have the people that you are investigating and prosecuting threatening to kill you. it s an emotional reaction from people at the time that they re being pursued. - rudy giuliani was always a calculating, intentional demagogue. the way you do politics is find an enemy, beat up on them, play on people s fears and prejudices. he needs an enemy. - he was gonna be the sheriff of wall street. he was gonna clean it up. there was guy he walked out of the office.
answered, repetitive. i never asked that question. i stole their money. it was more important to you than their needs, is that correct? objection. objection overruled. i don t remember sitting down and calculating is this more important. one of the self-justifications i talked to, mr. waters. i want to make it clear, i don t as i sit here today i do not believe that any of this justification that i m talking about made any of this okay because i don t. i ve owned up to all this money i stole. i tried to since i was confronted and i continue here today but one of the justifications at the time when i was taking pills and doing the things i was doing was i may ask a partner how much is this case worth and if one of my partners i may not even give them all
omission. okay. so all of these people, on these two exhibits, these were real people who needed this money, is that correct? i am sure they did. but it is more important to you that you stole their money on top of the 40% of legal fees that wu were taking. objection asked and answered and repetitive. i stole their money. it is more important to you than their needs, is that correct? objection. objection overruled. i don t remember sitting down and calculating, okay, is this more important. you know, one of the self-justifications that i talked about, mr. water, and this is one of the things, again, i want to make it clear. i don t, as i sit here today, i do not believe that any of the justifications that i am talking about made any of it okay, because i don t. i have owned up to all of the money that i have stole, and i
that you are investigating and prosecuting threatening to kill you. it s an emotional reaction from people at the time that they re being pursued. - rudy giuliani was always a calculating, intentional demagogue. the way you do politics is find an enemy, beat up on them, play on people s fears and prejudices. he needs an enemy. - he was gonna be the sheriff of wall street. he was gonna clean it up. there was guy he walked out of the office. he always managed to let the press know. he would very much exploit press coverage of walking an accused. - wall street also found itself a giuliani target in an insider trading scandal. - so if you think about the 1980s, when suddenly these guys like ivan boesky and michael milken were becoming insanely wealthy, they were new villains. - certain months aren t always the best,
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