It should be obvious what is wrong with the headline and beginning of this story from the New York Times.

Ex-Aide to Giuliani Plans Fight to Avoid Charges

Lawyers for Rudolph W. GiulianiÂ’s disgraced former police commissioner in New York City said yesterday that they were preparing a last-ditch effort to avoid federal criminal charges, but, either way, Mr. Giuliani said he was not worried about how such a case might affect his presidential campaign.

“I am not concerned about it,” Mr. Giuliani said at a campaign appearance in Charleston, S.C., adding that he hoped voters would judge him on the many good personnel choices he had made. “When you have a long record like I do, your record is going to have successes and failures.”

The former commissioner, Bernard B. Kerik, is trying to avoid a criminal indictment on tax fraud charges and what people briefed on the case describe as a range of other possible crimes, including bribery.

Figured it out yet?

It should be obvious.

Go back and take a look again, and then look for the answer below the fold. The New York Times and reporters Michael Cooper and William K. Rashbaum (not to mention their editors) are so interested in tagging front-running GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani with the whiff of scandal that they don't even bother telling the readers who the putative wrong-doer is and what he is accused of before raising the issue of how this impacts Giuliani -- who is not implicated in the wrong-doing.

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