NY Times blog? Emailed to me CityTime Laughter

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/live-blogging-bloombergs-testimony-in-consultants-trial/?scp=3&sq=bloomberg&st=cse  8:50PM posted link from where I think it came from....



Mr. Castello has now questioned the mayor about what he wrote in his memoir, the CityTime scandal, and his handling of the departure of former deputy mayor Stephen Goldsmith.
None of those issues are directly related to the charges against Mr. Haggerty, but Mr. Castello is raising them in an apparent attempt to suggest that the mayor is untruthful.
"Are you familiar with something called CityTime?" Mr. Castello asked Mr. Bloomberg, provoking laughter throughout courtroom. CityTime, the city's automated payroll system, has been embroiled in scandal, including the indictments of several outside consultants, and has been a source of embarrassment for Mr. Bloomberg, who prides himself on the application of technology to the delivery of city services.
Then he asked Mr. Bloomberg about Mr. Goldsmith, who resigned days after his arrest in Washington on a domestic violence charge, an episode that Mr. Bloomberg concealed at the time Mr. Goldsmith's departure was announced.
"You made a public statement that was untrue about his resignation," Mr. Castello said of Mr. Goldsmith's departure.
"That is not true," Mr. Bloomberg said.
"Didn't you say he was fired, because of the way he handled" the blizzard, Mr. Castello said, referring to the city's slow response to last December's snow storm.
"Absolutely not, you couldn't be more wrong," Mr. Bloomberg said.
Mr. Bloomberg said he said that Mr. Goldsmith had chosen to resign to pursue opportunities in infrastructure finance.
"Did you know at that time that he had been arrested?" Mr. Castello asked. "Isn't that the reason that he was asked to go?"
"We did not ask him to go-he volunteered to resign," Mr. Bloomberg said.
And has he sought out private sector employment? Mr. Castello asked.
"I have not had any conversations with him, I do not know," Mr. Bloomberg said.
"It's your testimony that you were 100 percent candid when you announced his resignation?" Mr. Castello pressed.
Mr. Blomberg's lawyer, Mr. Seidel, immediately objected and the judge said the mayor did not have to answer the question.
Shortly after that, Mr. Castello ended his cross-examination, having grilled Mr. Bloomberg for over two hours.