The day-to-day operations of Rudy Giuliani‘s self-named consulting company have been formally turned over to one of the candidate’s longtime advisers – and the former mayor hasn’t been to his office in more than a month, The Post has learned.
“My role is chairman of Giuliani Partners,” said Peter Powers, who served as a deputy mayor under Giuliani and has been friends with him since childhood. “I run the company on a day-to-day basis; it’s as simple as that. Rudy’s role is none.”
He added, “He has an equity interest in the in the firm, but he is not involved in the management of the firm. He is not involved in any clients.”
The comments were the clearest picture Giuliani officials have given of the operations at his firm since he began his presidential bid and stepped back from the company, which represents a list of private clients.
It was unclear if Giuliani has taken a formal leave of absence, but he is not consulted on new clients or in maintaining old ones, officials said.
Some reports have said Giuliani is still working part-time at the firm, but Powers insisted Rudy comes into the office only “now and then to look through personal correspondence” but not for client work.
Powers said he hadn’t seen Giuliani in the firm’s Times Square office “in a month, six weeks. He was in town [last Thursday], and he didn’t come in at all.”
Powers added, “He has not told me how to [run the business or] what to do. Obviously, we are selective in who we take on, but I do not consult with him.”
Giuliani has never released a full list of his clientele, which includes some firms with interests before the federal government. Several sources said few new ones have been brought on in the past year.
Powers said clients have been told “up front . . . that they’re not going to have access to him, that he’s not with the firm. [The old ones] understand that he’s not available and they’ve been renewing their engagements with us.”