Soon We're Going To Learn Rudy Gave Judi NYPD Security In The Womb

Looks like Rudy has some more explaining to do.

Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed - even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News.

"It went on for months before the affair was public," said Lee Degenstein, 52, a retired Smith Barney vice president who formerly lived at 200 E. 94th St., Nathan's old building.

"It was going on longer than anybody thought," added Degenstein, who, along with others in the neighborhood, said they often saw Nathan hopping into unmarked NYPD cars in early 2000, before the affair was revealed that May.

When pressed by The News Thursday, aides to the Republican presidential hopeful conceded that Nathan got police protection "sporadically" before December 2000 - the previously acknowledged beginning of her taxpayer-funded detail.

The reason the Giuliani camp has given that Judi was under security detail was because of unspecified threats in 2000. The story includes allegations that she was getting escorted as early as 1999.

After a week in which Giuliani's shady business dealings were on the front page - including his lobbying for Ethiopian dissidents considered a threat to antiterrorism efforts, and having close ties to a businessman named in the criminal indictment of Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona. There was enough heat this week that Giuliani stepped down from his investment firm rather than disclose his role or the firm's clients. But know "Sex on the City" is rearing its ugly head again, and apparently going back years longer than what was first disclosed.

This is not the best prelude to a visit to Meet The Press.