On May 15, 2023, Noelle Dunphy, a former off-the-books employee of Giuliani, filed a civil lawsuit against him.
[485] She accused Giuliani of
sexual assault,
wage theft and unlawful
abuse of power.
[486] Dunphy claimed that sexually satisfying Giuliani was an "absolute requirement" of her job;
[485] the complaint also said that Giuliani "often made outrageous comments that created and added to the hostile work environment that Ms. Dunphy was forced to endure", and that he was constantly under the effects of alcohol.
[487] The lawsuit further alleged that Giuliani complained about "'freakin Arabs' and Jews", and implied that "[Jewish men's] penises were inferior due to 'natural selection'".
[488]
Anyone else ever had an interview in a hotel where you lie down on a bed and put your hand down your pants?
Giuliani said he had been at the
Ground Zero site "as often, if not more, than most workers ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them." Some 9/11 workers have objected to those claims.
[121][122][123] While his appointment logs were unavailable for the six days immediately following the attacks, Giuliani logged 29 hours at the site over three months beginning September 17. This contrasted with recovery workers at the site who spent this much time at the site in two to three days.
The
9/11 Commission Report noted that lack of preparedness could have led to the deaths of first responders at the scene of the attacks. The commission noted that the radios in use by the fire department were the same radios which had been criticized for their ineffectiveness following the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Family members of 9/11 victims have said these radios were a complaint of emergency services responders for years.
[136] The radios were not working when Fire Department chiefs ordered the 343 firefighters inside the towers to evacuate, and they remained in the towers as the towers collapsed.
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When Giuliani testified before the 9/11 Commission, he said the firefighters ignored the evacuation order out of an effort to save lives.
[139] Giuliani testified to the commission, where some family members of responders who had died in the attacks appeared to protest his statements.
[140] A 1994 mayoral office study of the radios indicated that they were faulty. Replacement radios were purchased in a $33 million
no-bid contract with
Motorola, and implemented in early 2001; however, the radios were recalled in March 2001 after a probationary firefighter's calls for help at a house fire could not be picked up by others at the scene, leaving firemen with the old
analog radios from 1993.
For his leadership on and after September 11, Giuliani was given an honorary
knighthood (
KBE) by
Queen Elizabeth II on February 13, 2002.
[155] Giuliani initially downplayed the
health effects arising from the September 11 attacks in the
Financial District and lower Manhattan areas in the vicinity of the
World Trade Center site.
[156] He moved quickly to reopen
Wall Street, and it was reopened on September 17. In the first month after the attacks, he said "The air quality is safe and acceptable.
Giuliani took control away from agencies such as the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, leaving the "largely unknown" city Department of Design and Construction in charge of recovery and cleanup. Documents indicate that the Giuliani administration never enforced federal requirements requiring the wearing of
respirators. Concurrently, the administration threatened companies with dismissal if cleanup work slowed.
In June 2007,
Christie Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of
New Jersey and director of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), reportedly said the EPA had pushed for workers at the WTC site to wear respirators but she had been blocked by Giuliani. She said she believed the subsequent
lung disease and deaths suffered by WTC responders were a result of these actions;
[159] however, former deputy mayor
Joe Lhota, then with the Giuliani campaign, replied, "All workers at Ground Zero were instructed repeatedly to wear their respirators."
[160] Giuliani asked the city's Congressional delegation to limit the city's
liability for Ground Zero illnesses to a total of $350 million. Two years after Giuliani finished his term, FEMA appropriated $1 billion to a special insurance fund, called the
World Trade Center Captive Insurance Company, to protect the city against 9/11 lawsuits.
In February 2007, the
International Association of Fire Fighters issued a letter asserting that Giuliani rushed to conclude the recovery effort once gold and silver had been recovered from World Trade Center vaults and thereby prevented the remains of many victims from being recovered. The letter stated "Mayor Giuliani's actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no
closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the
Fresh Kills Landfill, before adding: "Hundreds remained entombed in Ground Zero when Giuliani gave up on them."
[161] Lawyers for the International Association of Fire Fighters seek to interview Giuliani under oath as part of a federal legal action alleging that New York City negligently dumped body parts and other human remains in the Fresh Kills Landfill.
More Americans lost their lives to Rudy Giuliani than the terrorists who attacked on 9/11. You'd think with all the money he made from 9/11 he could at least pay for some whores?