COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — Rudy Giuliani dismissed questions Wednesday about allegations made by his ex-police commissioner Bernard Kerik’s former lover – that she was asked to lie about the affair to avoid hurting Giuliani’s presidential ambitions.
One-time publishing powerhouse Judith Regan has filed a $100 million suit claiming an executive at her former employer, News Corp., directed her to lie to federal investigators about Kerik. “I don’t respond to the story at all. I don’t know anything about it. And it sounds to me like a kind of gossip-column story more than a real story,” Giuliani said.
Asked if he was aware of Kerik and Regan’s relationship, the former New York mayor said: “I think that’s a gossip-column story, and the last thing in the world you want to do when you’re running for president is respond to gossip-column-type stories.”
The Associated Press
