Posted on 04/13/2007 3:27:05 AM PDT by Liz
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Embattled....Bernard Kerik has withdrawn from contracts to advise two Caribbean governments on security because of his unresolved legal troubles......President Bharrat Jagdeo announced... Kerik was canceling commitments to Guyana and Trinidad......Kerik did not want either country "tainted" by allegations of ethics violations.
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So, Bernie baby, it was OK to "taint" the USA when you and Giuliani colluded to hoodwink GWB into appointing you Homeland/Sec? Making false statements on your Homeland/Sec application was okay, right Bernie?
BULLETIN: Kerik was forced out---supposedly b/c of illegal nanny problems. Later reports indicate Kerik and Giuliani tried to pull a fast one on GWB. The duo tried to hoodwink the President into appointing this con artist. GWB was left with egg on his face on the global stage when Kerik could not pass muster. At the time Giuliani pushed Kerik onto GWB, Kerik was then Rudy's business partner in a "security firm."
BULLETIN Years before the Homeland/Sec con job, and even before Rudy appointed Kerik (his driver and bodyguard) to NYC police commissioner, Rudy was briefed on Kerik's possible mob connections. (Rudiani claims he "forgot" he knew Kerik was mobbed-up).
SOURCE LINK http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/us/politics/30rudy.html?ei=5065&en=f5785a48ec4487ac&ex=1175918400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
BULLETIN: And get this Rudiani con job: Giuliani's CYA Spin Machine went into overdrive trying to coverup the sleazy Kerik episode---even going so far as to smear Pres Bush---saying GWB knew of Kerik's sleazy past, but was nominating him despite it.
SOURCE LINK http://www.nypost.com/seven/04092007/news/regionalnews/bush_knew_about_kerik_past__report_regionalnews_ian_bishop______post_correspondent.htm
Yep, Kerik’s obviously all you’ve got on Rudy. It must be discouraging for you to do all this sleuthing day after day and only come up with a friend’s sins.
Keep on digging. Rudy’s just gotta be crook, he’s gotta HE’S GOTTA!!!
Maybe they can get Dog the Bounty hunter...he seems to be up to the Giuliani standard!
Ha! He tried to pull a Greaseman.
If the Giuliani Security team doesn't get there first, that is.
If the Carib harbors rapists who sedate victims with date-rape drugs, Giuliani Security will be right on top of it (snicker).
HELLO, HE LIED Rooty also said that Kerik's position was largely limited to their joint venture, Giuliani-Kerik. "He's not part of Giuliani Partners," the former mayor said. But at the firm's Web site, Kerik is described as a "Senior Vice President at Giuliani Partners."
Excerpted from the Giuliani Partners website: Mr. Kerik is a Senior Vice President at Giuliani Partners and is Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani-Kerik LLC, an affiliate of Giuliani Partners. Giuliani Partners has at least 12 partners and executives.
Giuliani later explained the discrepancy by saying: "Senior vice president of the group is what Bernie was when we started. I think that remains his title, but that's not the way we primarily relate to him. As you know, he does some work for a few of our clients." He added: "We should probably straighten it out and point out where his ownership interest is and primary work is done."
POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK? Giuliani is perpetually in damage control. Kerik was supposedly tossed out when it became clear his sleazy activities would harm sleazy Giuliani's political ambitions. Savvy people are still betting Kerik will be perusing FBI files should Rudiani ever get near our WH.
What the heck did Kerik do? So he owned some Taser stock and didn’t report it? Big damn deal.
Not that Liz needs any help with getting dirt on Rudy Rambo, but since I have this handy.....
Angry archivists and historians denounced the unprecedented hijacking of public property to private hands. Tom Connors, of the Society of American Archivists, said the transfer seemed part of a movement to "create barriers to the American citizen's right to know what their governments are doing."
The families of the police and fire rescuers who died in the attack balked at Giuliani's plan to take up to a year to dole out the money, with his new organization billing $2.2 million in anticipated administrative expenses (including six-figure salaries for friends he appointed as officers). The families argued that the fire union had far more quickly distributed $111 million with an estimated administrative cost of just $30,000.
Under embarrassing pressure from the victims' families, unions and state Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, Giuliani backed down. He promised to distribute the money within 60 days and fund his overhead from new donations. The families of the deceased rescuers, the real heroes of the September 11 attacks, received a one-time benefit of about $230,000 each from the Giuliani-privatized fund in 2002.
That year, the former mayor earned some $8 million in speaking fees alone, more than $650,000 per month.
(ref; http://www.alternet.org/election04/19673/)
LOL!
The whole sordid Kerik affair really tears a hole in the “rudy is strong in the WOT” lie.
Point by point, any defense of this piece of crap candidate has been shredded.
They just don't.
Ronald Reagen had many cabinet members resign due to violations and he was a great President.
So Kerik cheated on his mistress or something, big deal. I suppose Rudy should have prevented that?
Some people seem to be retarded.
SPIN CYCLE.Him trying to explain his association - non association with his best friend Bernie is like John Kerry trying to explain how he 'won' the Silver Star, a Bronze Star and Three Purple Hearts - all in approx four months.
Wait my apologies ... at least John Kerry didn't DODGE THE DRAFT like Rooty Rambo.
LOL. And looking to get suspended for another week.
Nope, you’ve got nothing either.
Let us thank M813 profusely for reminding us of the Taser con---now included in The Kerik Sleaze Lineup:
THE KERIK SLEAZE LINEUP: The feds recently offered Kerik a deal to plead guilty to tax fraud and illegal eavesdropping conspiracy charges.....in exchange for dropping criminal probes into Kerik's alleged mortgage fraud, tax fraud, conspiracy to eavesdrop, and making false statements on his US Homeland Security Secretary application.
Kerik pleaded guilty last year to receiving tens of thousands of dollars in free renovations to an apartment he owned while a city official, renovations provided by company with reputed links to organized crime. A federal investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud in connection with his purchase of the apartment continues. Kerik was forced out of the running for Homeland/Sec Kerik, after he admitted he had not paid taxes on behalf of his illegal-immigrant nanny.
CIRCA JAN 2005 Federal agents considered a probe of Kerik back in 2000 — the year he moved from head of the Correction Department to become Mayor Giuliani's police commissioner — after Wall Street securities trader Lawrence Ray began giving information to the FBI on the stock swindle. Ray pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2001 after being indicted with 18 others, some high-level mobsters, in a $41 million pump-and-dump stock fraud. Ray then had a falling-out with Kerik over the case.
Wall Street securities trader Lawrence Ray had introduced Kerik to the head of an allegedly mob-linked construction company in New Jersey, Interstate Industrial. Interstate owner Frank DiTomasso eventually hired Ray and Kerik's brother Don to help convince authorities the firm wasn't controlled by the mob — and protect $100 million worth of contracts with the city. No investigation into Kerik was launched at the time and the matter was dropped.
CIRCA JAN 2005 But the feds' interest was recently rekindled after they learned Ray bankrolled Kerik's 1998 wedding — kicking in with another pal nearly $10,000 for the reception — and forked over another $7,000 in additional gifts. "A guy in Kerik's position should not be accepting those kinds of gifts," said one source familiar with the FBI's concerns.
Another area of suspicion for the feds is the $6.2 million profit Kerik made from exercising his stock options in Taser International, which sold stun guns to the Department of Homeland Security before Kerik was nominated to head the agency. Kerik, who worked as a consultant to the firm while police chief, remains on Taser's board of directors. He told the White House he planned to sever his relationship with the company if his nomination had been confirmed.
Kerik is currently (as of JAN 2005) being probed by the city Department of Investigation and the Bronx District Attorney's Office.
Thanks again, M813. Appreciate it.
*snicker*
You'd think his 2nd Amendment stance would make him one already. Guess not.
Seriously, if a Democrat had all of the problems Rudy had, he'd be torn to shreds. Why give Rudy a pass for his liberalism?
you badly misinterpret that. It’s a favorable/unfavorable rating, not people who would likely vote for him.
Besides, few outside of NYC know how liberal and sleazy the scunbag is yet, but they will!
Look out folks, here they come!
Oh, so your comprehension sucks, too, huh? Read my post to peach above.
Some brainiac posted to me last night that 61% meant than a huge percentage of Republicans wouldn’t vote for Rudy and so he couldn’t possibly win.
All this bad stuff in the closet, and Rudy hasn’t even faced one primary election yet. Can you imagine the stuff that will come out if he actually wins the nomination? I can hear it now: “It was only sex!” Oh, wait! That was Bill Clinton.
It sure seems like Rudy’s core support here comes from idiot pre-college kids or old hag housewives who don’t know much about reality.
okay, I'll bite. 61% of what?
You’re using popularity in polls (polls nine months before the primary has even BEGAN) to justify his liberal stances? Why?
Of something.
They love the man.
He is their kind of guy!
Well you gotta admit, Rooty has to go some to beat Clinton at the sex game. Pedophilia, group sex, incest---stuff like that would make Clinton look like a choir boy.
A liberal scumbag who doesn't give a damn about the constitution?
Beware the front runner. I wouldn’t want to be Gulianni right now.
From your lips to Gods ears.
Rudy will NEVER win a primary run by Conservatives. Thankfully.
Fred Rules.
I think Gulianni is the Howard Dean of the GOP. All the early hoopla for sure. Why so many people here eat up the hoopla is beyond me.
That being said, I don’t think Kerik is the evil guy so many make him out to be. He is a bit of an odd duck and it wouldn’t surprise me if his career wasn’t 100% aboveboard, but from what I’ve read much of the stuff he’s been accused of is blown at least somewhat out of proportion.
You're welcome. But I don't really see the big deal. So he collected $17,000 in favors? Big whoop! And no, I am NOT a Rudy supporter, btw. I want Fred, Hunter or Chuck Norris for Pres.
Chuck Norris for prez——y-e-e-s-s-s.
Don't read much, huh?
http://members.forbes.com/global/2006/1113/034.html
...Bernie Kerik is still embarrassing his old boss. The contretemps involves former Westchester County (New York) district attorney Jeanine Pirro, recorded by the police talking with Kerik last year about bugging her husband’s boat to expose an affair. Kerik called an employee of Giuliani Security & Safety to get a recording device. Pirro insists the boat was never bugged but reportedly had her husband followed by Giuliani Security employees. “It was, for lack of a better term, ‘freelance’ work,” says Sunny Mindel, Rudy Giuliani’s spokesperson. “Jeanine Pirro was not a client.”
Plenty. The implication is Rudy is a crook. What evidence do YOU have, Nancy Drew?
I didn't imply that--I just think he is an extremely poor candidate for President of the United States. His lack of judgment relative to Kerik is just one of a long list of things that make him unfit.
If you think this is all there is, you haven’t been paying attention.
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