Rudy had the taxpayers pay for police transportation of his mistress' friends.

A source involved with the mayor's operations at the time tells CBS 2 HD that Nathan took flagrant advantage of that police car and driver.

The source says Nathan forced police to chauffeur her friends and family around the city -- even when she wasn't in the car.

Rudy's secret fund even paid for cops to walk Judi's dog!

Now we learn that "the Great Judi" pays for two seats every time she flies alone on one of her European shopping jaunts. One seat goes to her beloved Louis Vuitton handbag. That bag should become a Giuliani symbol.

If that tale gets the play given to John Edward's haircut, Rudy is toast.

Where have we heard this story before? A leader with authoritarian leanings is forced to relinquish power because of a furor generated the woman he loves -- a woman everyone else considers an opportunistic bitch who insists on the royal treatment. The same "leader" hid his secret dealings with the foreign thugs who bombed buildings in his nation's greatest city.

Hint: Twentieth Century British history. The run-up to WWII.

The parallel is imperfect, of course. I don't think Eddie liked to dress in women's clothing.

Added question: All right, I gotta ask this, even though style ain't exactly my thing. I don't watch Bravo and I don't know anything about ladies' fashions, aside from being of the opinion that goth chicks are kind of hot. I certainly don't know handbags. But...

What is the deal with Louis Vuitton bags? Why do these damned things cost so much?

I gotta tell ya: The bag pictured here, like the ones I've seen on various other sites, strikes me as being...well...ugly. Look at it: Clunky, boxy, and the color of dog poop. And it has the company logo crassly plastered all over it, like a t-shirt for the Dodgers. Just what, exactly, makes such a hideosity a fetish object?