Cover of the February 3, 1987, issue of the Village Voice. Village Voice Archive
The Mayor Who Didn’t Want To Know — And the Whistleblowers Who Tried To Alert Him
Perhaps the fairest way to judge the competence, integrity, and character of a government is how it responds when credible information about misconduct is brought to its attention. Any administration can suffer a scandal, because the susceptibility to temptation has been part of human nature since the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Any of us can be fooled or betrayed by a subordinate. Even Rudy Giuliani had to prosecute
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