Comping Miss Judi

To the Editor:

Guarding the Mayor of the City of New York is an obligation and a priority, and the planning, budgeting, and logistics that arise from the need to protect the Mayor certainly warrant some measure of confidentiality - maybe even some disguise.

Nevertheless, the manipulations of a couple of backwater city agencies' budgets during the Giuliani Administration appear to have had little to do with guarding the Mayor, but much to do with grubstaking the "Rudy-Judi Trysting Trust" the obscure credit lines needed to quietly settle costs incurred in connection with official monkey business.

The flim-flam even begs the question of whether a Mayor's Office wisenheimer proposed the particularly obtuse strategy of expediting payment of some Police Department bills related to Mr. Giuliani's "rolls in the hayloft" by first paying them through the seemingly apt New York City Loft Board.

Rudolph W. Giuliani - former Mayor, former family man, and current presidential hopeful - asserts plausible deniability as to direct knowledge of fiscal abuses. However, if law enforcement personnel guarding Mr. Giuliani during his years as Mayor realized they were pulling some of their duty so their boss could safely rendezvous - on multiple occasions - in order to attempt the Class B misdemeanor of adultery, then those personnel should have treated Mr. Giuliani no better than Mr. Giuliani himself would have treated any other quality-of-life offender.

Therefore: Comptroller Thompson, kindly tote up the Giuliani administration's questionable tabs. Even if collection enforcement is now time-barred, putting out all the dollars-and-cents facts is not. Why should New York City taxpayers blindly grubstake credit lines in support of a married Mayor's moonlighting mojo?

MARK S. TRAVITSKY, Administrative Staff Analyst (Retired)