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Wall Street brokers Anne Michele Lyons and Paul Kuhns booked the Wye River
Plantation for their wedding, they obviously had no idea there’d be a family on the
grounds that was not going to be vacating before the nuptials. But the April 29 ceremony
went off fine, with no distractions from Elian Gonzalez en famille, a few
straggling protestors and a few straggling media folk. Now there’s a story for the
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REGISTER NOW! If Bill Clinton wants to vote for his wife, he’ll have to
register to vote in New York.
NYConfidential's quick check shows that he has yet to register
at his new Chappaqua address. In order to cast the family vote, he just needs to get a
form from the Board of Elections, and make the New York address his legal one at least 30
days before the election.
He also must remain a U.S. citizen, not be in jail or on parole for a
felony conviction and not claim the right to vote anywhere else.
A staffer on Hillary’s Senate campaign said the First Lady was a legal New York
State voter. |
Move Over
Bill;
Rudy's Gal Pals
Well, just when it seemed that the soap
opera that has been masquerading as a Senate campaign couldn’t get more bizarre,
comes revelations late last week that the Mayor has a new "very good friend," in
his own words.
Judith Nathan, a 45-year-old Upper East
Side divorcee, who until she met 56-year-old Rudy, lived with a
36-year-old man for four years, has been outed by the tabloids almost a year after pundits
and other pols have been whispering that the Mayor has been out on the town once again
with someone other than his wife, Donna ("Don’t Call Me Giuliani") Hanover.
Why the dailies felt comfortable now
revealing Rudy’s not-so-new gal pal is something we’ll leave to the media
analysts (Steve Brill, where are you when we really need you?).
But we thought that a little trip down
memory lane of Rudy’s past wives and gal pals might shed some light on the
Mayor’s recent revelations.
First, back in the ’70s, when City
Hall was still a glimmer in Rudy’s eyes, he married a woman named Regina Perrugi.
The brief marriage, however, didn’t succeed, and when it came time
to end the union, the Catholic couple discovered — alas! — that they were
actually cousins. This convenient fact allowed the ambitious attorney to bypass a
forbidden divorce and instead receive a rare annulment based on the "newly
discovered" familial link.
Since then, Peruggi, a successful head of
the Upper East Side’s Marymount College, has shunned the public eye and has never
spoken of her brief marriage to Rudy.
A few years later, Rudy met journalist Donna
Hanover and their whirlwind romance led to marriage and the eventual birth of their
two children, Andrew and Caroline, now 14 and 10, who attend Manhattan
parochial schools.
But during Rudy’s six-year tenure as
Mayor, the first five years were clouded by rumors and innuendo about his close and
constant relationship with his top communications aide, Cristyne Lategano. Those
rumors reached a crescendo a few summers back when Vanity Fair first published a
piece that suggested what everyone in town was talking about — the Mayor’s
"friendship" with Lategano was perhaps the reason behind the chilly winds that
began blowing in his marriage (Donna stopped wearing her wedding ring, dropped Giuliani
from her name and rarely appeared with Rudy at public events).
But last year, Lategano moved on, left City
Hall, married a golf writer who appeared to have two first names (Nicholas Nicholas)
and quietly drifted out of Giuliani’s life.
There was even talk back then of a
rapproachment between Rudy and Donna — the tabs reported that the couple showed up to
an evening dinner dance together and even danced cheek to cheek.
But, alas, of late, with the Mayor’s
health scare, Donna was once again visible only in prepared statements and with her
announcement of an impending appearance in the controversial "Vagina
Monologues," it appeared that the Mayor’s curious and dysfunctional marriage was
now a match for the First Couple’s.
And you thought "All My Children" was
unbelievable.
Training Cops
City Transit cops are railing at conditions
they’re being forced to face on the job.
Insiders tell NYConfidential that
efforts by supervisors to conduct routine spot checks on uniformed and plainclothes cops
who ride the rails are being stymied by the department’s refusal to issue the bosses
NYPD vehicles.
Supervisors are sent into the subway system
to check on the cops. In one Queens Division, that means the bosses have to travel from
Jamaica to Astoria, which the sources claim can take a good part of the day, leaving
little time for the bosses to address conditions reported by patrol cops.
Forget about the cop who needs assistance
or a boss at the site of an arrest. The cop must wait for a supervisor to arrive by subway
– who may have to travel from the other end of the line. All of which, of course,
depends on the cop’s ability to reach a supervisor on NYPD-issued radios that often
fail to work underground.
Transit cops have complained for years about radios that
fade-out along the system. NYPD brass responded by issuing cellphones to some of the cops,
"for emergency use." Of course, the phones don’t always work underground
either, putting both the cops and straphangers in potential danger.
Help Wanted
Don’t know how these jobs were
advertised in the past, but now, if you want to work for the Supreme Court, just log on to
their new website and hit Career Opportunities. Deadlines for the first online offer ever
made by the high court is May 15, so hurry! Here, briefly, is what they’re looking
for:
POSITION: Administrative Assistant to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
Statutory Position reports to the Chief Justice and assists him in his nonadjud-icatory
responsibilities. Primary duties include role of senior court manager, assisting Chief
Justice in the internal management of the Supreme Court... Serves as the Chief
Justice’s liaison with the Executive Branch, Congress, and other State and private
organizations. The salary is up to "Executive Level III," which is $130,200.
Want to find out more? Well, give them a call at 202-479-3404.
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