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Bernard
Kerik
- Rudy
Giuliani
- 
Money
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Politics
- 
Police
- 
2008
Election - "Feds:
Bernard Kerik's a scammer who ripped off city." ...
"[Former New York City, New York Police Commissioner] Bernard Kerik lied,
schemed and sold out the city - all under the nose of his mentor and pal,
[2008 Election Republican] presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani." ... "In
meticulous detail, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia assembled count
after count painting Kerik as a money-grubbing liar who tried to cover
his tracks." ... "The indictment says the misdeeds took place as Giuliani
promoted his former driver to the top levels of his administration, from
running city prisons to heading the largest police force in America." ...
"The indictment charges Kerik with conspiracy, tax fraud, making false
statements and depriving the city of his honest services. If convicted,
he faces up to 142 years in prison and up to $4.75 million in fines." ...
"The indictment starts in 1998, after Giuliani made Kerik correction commissioner,
continues through 2000, when he named him police commissioner, and ends
in 2006, after Giuliani's recommendation that Kerik run the Homeland Security
Department imploded. " -By Thomas Zambito and Greg
B. Smith -NYDailyNews.com
Bernard
Kerik
- Rudolph
Giuliani
- Secret
- 
Apartment
- 
Book
- Money
- 
Law
- 
New
York
- 
New
Jersey - "Ex-NYPD
commissioner Bernard Kerik surrenders in corruption probe."
... "[Former Police Commissioner Bernard] Kerik is charged with conspiracy,
tax fraud, making false statements and depriving the city of his honest
services while he was [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
Rudolph] Giuliani’s corrections commissioner and top cop." ... "The one-time
nominee to be [Republican] President Bush’s Homeland Security czar faces
charges that carry a top prison sentence of 142 years, if convicted. He
also faces more than $4 million and fines, and would have to repay $255,000
in free rent he got from a Manhattan developer." ... "Kerik is charged
with trying to convince city investigators that a New Jersey contractor
secretly renovating his Bronx apartment was free of mob ties." ... "He
also faces multiple allegations of tax fraud, including failing to report
those renovations as income, hiding $75,000 in income from his book, “The
Lost Son, and to taking a bogus $80,000 charitable donation." -By
Thomas Zambito and Greg B. Smith -NYDailyNews.com
John
McCain
- Rudolph
Giuliani
- Bernard
Kerik
- 
US
- 
Iraq
- Police
- 
Military
- Torture
- Prisoner
- Law
- Politics
- 2008
Election - New
York
- 
World
- Religion
- "McCain
questions Giuliani's judgment." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain told reporters he had never
approved of [former New York City, New York police commissioner Bernard]
Kerik as a candidate for head of the DHS [Department of Homeland Security]."
... ""I went to Baghdad [Iraq's capital] shortly after the initial victory
and met in Baghdad with Bremer, Sanchez and Kerik was there,” McCain said
referencing former L. Paul Bremmer and [Lieutenant General] Lt. Gen. Ricardo
Sanchez. “Kerik was supposed to be there to help train the police force.
He stayed two months and one day just left.”" ... ""That's why I never
would have supported him to be the head of Homeland Security because of
his irresponsible act when he was over there in Baghdad to try to help
train the police."" ... "McCain also rebuked the [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate Rudolph Giuliani and former] New York mayor for
his unwillingness to categorize water boarding as torture." ... ""He doesn't
understand. He doesn't have the experience or judgment to lead this nation,"
McCain, a former prisoner of war, told reporters." ... ""I mean this is
a defining issue about America. It means that he clearly does not understand
the moral implications of torturing someone and what it does to our standing
in the world and what it does to our ability to win this struggle to win
radical Islamic extremism," he continued." -By Sareena
Dalla -CNN
Rudy
Giuliani
- Bernard
Kerik
- Criminal
- Business
- 
Government
- Politics
- New
York
- 2008
Election - "Ex-Giuliani
aide Kerik indicted on 14 counts in NY." ... "Former
New York police commissioner and [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Rudy Giuliani protege Bernard Kerik was indicted on 14 federal
counts including fraud, obstructing an FBI investigation and lying to the
federal government, the U.S. attorney said on Friday." ... "Kerik, 52,
and Giuliani were also business partners and, with Giuliani's backing,
Kerik was nominated by [Republican] President George W. Bush in 2004 to
be secretary of Homeland Security." -By Daniel Trotta
with Frances Kerry -Reuters
Bernard
B Kerik - Rudolph
W Giuliani
- Crime
- Money
- Apartment
- Construction
- 
Wiretapping
- Politics
- New
York
- New
Jersey - 2008
Election - "Kerik
Indictment on Tax and Corruption Charges Imminent."
... "Federal prosecutors are planning to unveil an indictment against former
New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as early as week's end,
spotlighting alleged corruption that occurred a decade ago when he worked
was a trusted adviser to former New York mayor -- and now [2008 Election
Republican] presidential candidate -- Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to
people familiar with the case." ... "Kerik, 51, rejected a plea bargain
earlier this year and was informed by prosecutors that he was likely to
be indicted on charges that could include tax evasion or tax fraud, public
corruption and filing false information regarding his failed 2004 nomination
to be [Republican] President Bush's homeland security chief." ... "The
federal investigation has focused on gifts that Kerik is alleged to have
accepted while New York City's corrections chief and police commissioner,
including $165,000 in apartment renovations in 1999 from a New Jersey construction
company that sought his help overcoming allegations of ties to organized
crime so it could compete for business from Giuliani's mayoral administration."
... "Last year, Kerik pleaded guilty to a New York state ethics charge
in connection with those gifts and was placed on probation. Federal authorities
pursued their own, broader investigation that also examined Kerik's conduct
during his vetting to be the homeland security nominee." ... "The FBI also
has investigated whether Kerik played a role in a conspiracy to commit
illegal wiretapping involving former New York attorney general candidate
Jeanine Pirro." -By John Solomon
-WashingtonPost
Rudolph
Giuliani - Bernard
Kerik - Drug
- Money
- Politician
- Government
- 
Med
- Enforcement
- New
York
- Election
2008 - "OxyContin:
The Giuliani Connection." ... "[2008 election Republican
Presidential candidate] Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani
Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical
company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients
about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin."
... "Federal officials say the company, Purdue Frederick, helped to trigger
a nationwide epidemic of addiction to the time-release painkiller by failing
to give early warnings that it could be abused." ... "Prosecutors say "in
the process scores died."" ... "Drug Enforcement Administration officials
tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com Giuliani personally met with the head of
the DEA when the DEA's drug diversion office began a criminal investigation
into the company." ... "According to the book "Painkiller," by New York
Times reporter Barry Meier, both Giuliani and his then-partner Bernard
Kerik "were in direct contact with Asa Hutchinson, the administrator of
DEA."" ... "Meier wrote that "with Giuliani now in the mix, the pace of
DEA's investigation into Purdue's OxyContin plant in New Jersey slowed
as Hutchinson repeatedly summoned division officials to his office to explain
themselves and their reasons for continuing the inquiry."" -By
Brian Ross, Richard Esposito, and R. Schwartz
-ABCNEWS.com
Bernard
B Kerik - Rudolph
W Giuliani - Election
2008 - New
York
- Police
- 
Terrorism
- Business
- Politics
- Surveillance
- Law
- "Ex-Partner
Of Giuliani May Face Charges: Kerik Counts Said To
Include Deception During Cabinet Bid." ... "Federal prosecutors have told
Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004
ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies,
including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping." ... "Kerik's
indictment could set the stage for a courtroom battle that would draw attention
to Kerik's extensive business and political dealings with former New York
mayor [Republican] Rudolph W. Giuliani, who personally recommended him
to [Republican] President Bush for the Cabinet. Giuliani, the front-runner
for the [election] 2008 Republican presidential nomination according to
most polls, later called the recommendation a mistake." ... "Kerik rose
from being a warden and police detective to become Giuliani's campaign
security adviser, corrections chief, police commissioner and eventual partner
in Giuliani-Kerik, a security arm of Giuliani Partners, which Giuliani
established after leaving office in 2001. Kerik resigned his positions
in Giuliani's firm after he was nominated to the homeland security job."
... "Kerik's legal troubles could damage the law-and-order image that is
the bedrock of Giuliani's campaign, said Republican political consultant
Nelson Warfield, who is not aligned with any 2008 candidate. "Kerik has
potential to undermine his image as a competent leader and someone best
fit to fight terrorism," Warfield said. "Either he had fundamentally bad
information about Kerik, or he was reckless in not knowing enough about
a man who was that close to him."" ... "In addition to charges involving
false information and tax law, the U.S. attorney's office in New York City
is also threatening to charge Kerik with conspiracy to commit illegal wiretapping
in his dealings with the 2006 GOP candidate for New York attorney general,
Jeanine F. Pirro, the sources said." ... "After Kerik left the Giuliani
firm, Kerik arranged for two off-duty Giuliani firm employees to conduct
surveillance on Pirro's husband." (1, 2)
-By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
-WashingtonPost
Rudolph
W Giuliani - Bernard
B Kerik - New
York
- Police
- Politics
- Apartment
- Money
- "Testimony
by Giuliani Indicates He Was Briefed on Kerik in ’00."
... "[Republican] Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former
chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard
B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime
before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according
to court records." ... "Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before
a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr. Kerik, said he had no memory of the
briefing, but he did not dispute that it had taken place, according to
a transcript of his testimony." ... "Mr. Giuliani’s testimony amounts to
a significantly new version of what information was probably before him
in the summer of 2000 as he was debating Mr. Kerik’s appointment as the
city’s top law enforcement officer. Mr. Giuliani had previously said that
he had never been told of Mr. Kerik’s entanglement with the company before
promoting him to the police job or later supporting his failed bid to be
the nation’s homeland security secretary." ... "Mr. Kerik pleaded guilty
last summer to improperly allowing the company, Interstate Industrial Corporation,
or its subsidiaries, to do $165,000 worth of free renovations on his Bronx
apartment in late 1999 and 2000. The company has denied paying for the
work, and has disputed any association with organized crime. But the two
brothers who run it have been indicted in the Bronx on charges they lied
under oath about their dealings with Mr. Kerik." ... "Mr. Giuliani was
a key backer of Mr. Kerik when [Republican] President Bush nominated him
to be homeland security secretary in December 2004. Mr. Kerik withdrew
his name a week later, citing possible tax and immigration problems involving
his family’s nanny." (1, 2)
-By William K. Rashbaum
-NYTimes
Bernard
Kerik - Rudolph
Giuliani - New
York
- Police
- Government
- Politics
- "Kerik
made millions from agency contractor: Homeland Security
nominee sat on board of stun-gun maker." ... "Bernard Kerik, [Republican]
President Bush's choice to run the Homeland Security Department, made $6.2
million by exercising stock options he received from a company that sold
stun guns to the department — and seeks more business with it." ... "Taser
International was one of many companies that received consulting advice
from Kerik after he left his job as New York City police commissioner in
2001, when he was earning $150,500 a year. Kerik remains on Taser's board
of directors, although the company and the White House said he planned
to sever the relationship." ... "Partnering with former New York Mayor
[Republican] Rudolph Giuliani and also operating independently, Kerik has
had business arrangements with manufacturers of prescription drugs, computer
software and bulletproof materials, as well as companies selling nuclear
power, telephone service, insurance and security advice for Americans working
abroad." ... "Kerik and other former New York City officials joined the
ex-mayor in Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm. In 2003, Kerik became
chief executive officer of an affiliate consulting company, Giuliani-Kerik."
-AP via -MSNBC
