Its old news, but its being treated as it if was a bombshell--Rudy Giuliani billed some expenses to obscure departments while he was wooing the current Mrs. Giuliani.

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”

The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail.

The story is a little bizarre. The mayor need security, and security costs money and its charged to the mayor's office. The real impropriety concerns what the mayor was doing in South Hampton--but that's old news. Giuliani has taken whatever hit he's going to take for egregiously embarrassing his family with a very public affair with his now wife.

If there is a story, it hasn't been reported yet--and that refers to the fact that Giuliani disposed of the expenses in a rather elaborate misdirection. Let Politico discover what was going on with that and try again...