"I read on Drudge it was a 'Nanny Gate' tax affair."
Really too early to believe anything. Another "newsbreak" mentions a stun-gun company which sold product to Homeland Security and expected to do more. Kerik has some interest in the company.
Another "newsbreak" tells how even Ted Kennedy supported the guy, along with other major player Democrats, but minutes after the nomination was announced, an opposition group circulated an attack paper listing his vulnerabilities.
Maybe Kerik stood back and took a cold look at the landscape, then said to himself, "Who needs to go through this BS?"
But the only moderately troubling information uncovered about Kerik so far was news that Kerik had earned $6.2 million by exercising stock options he received from Taser International, which did lucrative business with the Department of Homeland Security, this official said.
EXCELLENT FIND! There is a strange thesis advanced by some on this site that the "Left" was after Kerik. NYT, etc., yes. However, a number of Liberal elites LOVED HIM -- and for good reason if one takes the blinders off to look closely at his policies and comments (and local reporting on him) over the years. Count me among the conservatives in NYC who knew him (and Giuliani) all too well -- and all of the scandals behind Kerik, who wondered whether the WH had done its homework.